Cynthia:  I met a family this past year from Texas who came to Camden to 
find Canteys who married a White.  I am a Cantey and we met at the archives. 
Their ancestor was a dentist after the Civil War and married a Cantey.  Do 
you have any information about this?


From: "Cynthia H. Porcher" 
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: 
>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:53:32 -0400
>
>Hi, thanks for your reply. My name is pronounced PaSHAY.or PorSHAY, but
>generally the first is the way we say it. My inlaws and lots of family are
>at St Stephen's Church Yard. I have been working on the Porcher family,
>also, but that family's history is well-documented by the Huguenot Society
>and others.
>
>Thanks for the info on John White, the stone cutter. There are several
>generations of Whites
>who were stone cutters and I believe one of them had a daughter named Sarah
>Jane White who married Joseph Henry Villeneuve. Joseph Henry was also a
>stonecutter, but none exist among his ancestors -- they were merchants, so 
>I
>believe he may have learned his trade from a member of his wife's family.
>Joseph Henry Villeneuve carved the Confederate Monument at Cheraw, SC (St
>David's Parish Cemetery). His family plot is also there, and Joseph Henry's
>stone was signed by a White. Would really like to figure out this
>connection. chp
>
>
>
>



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