James White, Former Editor of News-Record, Has Died, Feb. 6, 1925

James H. White Dead. . . Former Editor of the News-Record and Well Known in Madison County Died Yesterday

Mr. James H. White, who since July 1, 1923, has been in the State hospital at Morganton, died there Thursday afternoon, February 5, 1925, following a stroke of paralysis earlier in the week. The body was expected to arrive in Marshall this morning, but did not and will probably be on a later train. It is now expected that the funeral service will be from the Baptist Church at 1 o’clock Sunday and that the interment will be in the Pritchard cemetery at Marshall. He will be buried with Masonic honors, he being a prominent member of that fraternity before his affliction. Mr. White is survived by his wife and one son, Leo, now a student at the University of North Carolina. He leaves one sister, Mrs. J.C. Tilson, wife of Dr. J.C. Tilson of near Marshall. He was an uncle of the Robinettes and Gwaltneys of Marshall, their mothers being his sisters.

Mr. White was recently 57 years old and was for many years one of the most prominent men in the County. He was Sheriff of the County and Tax Collector from 1892 to 1896. In 1898 he was elected Clerk of the Superior Court, which office he filled most creditably for eight years—two terms. He organized the Citizens Bank of Marshall and the Bank of Hot Springs and was President of these banks. He had been elected Mahor of Marshall but became afflicted before assuming the duties of the office. He was a prominent member of the Marshall Baptist Church, being chairman of the Board of Deacons when he left Marshall. He was chairman of the corporation which owned the News-Record after the consolidation Nov. 2, 1911, of the Madison County Record and the French Broad News, which became the News-Record. The last few years before his affliction, he was editor of the paper, having employed editors and managed it in a business way before. He was at one time one of the best known and most popular men of the County, and his people have the sympathy of the people of the County in their hour of sorrow.

From the front page of the News-Record, Marshall, N.C., Feb. 6, 1925. “The Only Newspaper Published in Madison County”

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