Jessie Mae Jewitt and Henry Hall White

HENRY HALL WHITE, son of BERTHA HALL and FRANK NEWMAN WHITE, was born June 27, 1883 in Romeo, Macomb, Michigan,⁴⁹³¹ and died April 7, 1944 in Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹ He is buried in Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio.⁴⁵⁶

He married JESSIE MAE JEWITT on March 17, 1916 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.³⁵⁰⁴ She was born March 20, 1880 in Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio,¹⁷⁸⁷ and died August 1, 1952 in Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio.¹¹⁷⁷⁷ She is buried in Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio.⁴⁵⁶

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Work History

Obituaries

Plain Dealer, April 9, 1944¹¹⁷⁷⁸

HARRY H. WHITE

Harry Hall White, 60, consulting engineer with the National Farm Machinery Co-Operative, Inc., of Indiana, nationally known authority on Early American glass and a former resident of Cleveland, died Friday in Shelbyville, Ind., while on a business trip, according to word received here yesterday.

Mr. White, a resident of Cleveland for 25 years until he moved to Detroit in 1938, had collected Early American glassware for many years. He had completed several years of research work for a book on glass, but died before he started to write it.

In 1938 he was elected the first president of the Cleveland Collectors Society, but moved to Detroit before he had a chance to serve.

Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Jessie Jewitt White; a daughter, Mrs. E. Clay Ingram, and two sons, Roland A. and Ernest A. Ball. The family home is in Detroit.

Services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow at Knollwood chapel.

Peninsular News, August 8, 1952¹¹⁷⁷⁷

JESSIE MAE WHITE

Mrs. Jessie Mae White, 72, nationally known as a connoisseur of antiques and as a lecturer on the subject, died Friday night at Magruder Hospital where she had been a patient for several weeks.

Her first husband was Ernest Ball, the famous composer whose "Mother Machree" and countless other songs have become an integral part of American music. Her second husband was Harry Hall White, author, lecturer, and authority on antiques.

Mrs. White operated an antique shop on E. Perry St., Port Clinton for several years, moving two years ago to Milan where she continued her business. She was the mother of Mrs. Ruth Ingram, Lakeside, wife of Dr. E. C. Ingram, Port Clinton dentist and also is survived by a daughter Helen, of Mayfield Heights; sons, Roland Ball of California and Ernest Ball in Florida; and a brother, Charles Jewitt of Gates Mills, Ohio.

Local arrangements were in charge of the Gerner and Wolf mortuary. The body was taken to Cleveland where private funeral services were held at the Knollwood Cemetery Chapel Monday at 2 p. m. Burial was made in Knollwood Cemetery there.

Mrs. White was born March 20, 1880 in Oberlin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Jewitt.

While Mrs. White was perhaps best known locally as a connoisseur of antiques, she held national prominence in the musical world as well.

She was a church organist at the age of 13 and studied at the Cleveland Conservatory of Music and under internationally known musicians at Boston. She is the composer of hundreds of songs. One of the best known is "Teach Me To Pray." Countless cantatas, sacred songs and ballads, are credited to her composition. She used her maiden name, Jessie Mae Jewitt, in her musical work.

Etude magazine featured her work in a special article some time ago, and for some time she contributed a monthly song in the publication of a children's magazine. She was included in the publication of "Women of Today," a roster of America's outstanding women of talent.

Her abilities were many-fold. Besides her writing, her music, her antique work and her lecturing, she had found time to conduct two radio shows in Cleveland in recent years. One "The Happy Land Lady," ran for 40 weeks; another was a year-long program. She served as editor of the American Antiques Journal the first year of its publication.

Music was perhaps her first love and her death certificate lists her occupation as "musician," at the request of her family. During her few years in Ottawa County, Mrs. WHite contributed much to the cultural life of the community and made many warm friends here.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 4, 19006928	Bruce, Macomb, Michigan	Frank Newman White Bertha Hall Henry Hall White
April 19, 19106930	Bruce, Macomb, Michigan	Frank Newman White Bertha Hall Henry Hall White
January 8, 1920750	East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio	Henry Hall White Jessie Mae Jewitt
April 8, 1930600	East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio	Henry Hall White Jessie Mae Jewitt
April 5, 19402681	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan	Henry Hall White Jessie Mae Jewitt