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204:. He was married three times, fathering five sons. The children of Barclay and Rebecca Merritt (Lamb) White were: Howard, born April 12, 1844; Joseph Josiah, born January 22, 1846; George Foster, born November 13, 1847; and Barclay Jr., born February 20, 1850, and with his second wife, Beulah, Daniel Smith White born 1853. Joseph J. White's daughter,
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