Almeda Amanda Ambrosier was born November 3, 1873. She died January 26, 1948, in Mountain Home, Idaho.
She was the third oldest of the eleven daughters and sons of George Ambrosier and Sara Louisa Grogg.
She married Alva Asbury White on March 28, 1892, in Norton, Kansas. He died nine months before her.
They had three children:
• French George White, born December 31, 1892, in Lenora, Kansas, died 1928, in Shelly, Idaho;
• Le Roy Dale White, born August 10, 1894, in Lenora, Kansas, died 1944 in Portland, Oregon;
• Alpha Mabel White, born June 7, 1897 in Lenora, Kansas, died July 14, 1981, in Nampa, Idaho.
She was born less than eight years after the end of the Civil War. Ulysses Grant was president of the United States.
When she was nineteen, in early 1893, the price of grain collapsed, apparently because fearful foreign investors reacting to a crisis in Argentina cashed in their American dollars and drained the U.S. treasury of gold, which in turn led to bank runs and unemployment in the U.S. This situation became known as the Panic of 1893 and was the beginning of a destructive six-year economic depression.
When she was twenty-four, in April 1898, the United States went to war with Spain.
She was forty-three when the United States entered World War I in April 1917.
When she was fifty-five, in 1929, the stock market crashed, leading to the Great Depression.
She was sixty-five when the attack of Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II, and sixty-eight when the war ended.
First row, left to right, Alpha White and Almeda Ambrosier, her mother; second row, Almeda Ambrosier's son French George White, husband Alva Asbury White, and son Le Roy Dale White:
Alva White and Almeda Ambrosier White
Detail from 1895 map of Kansas showing Norton, where Almeda Amanda Ambrosier was married in 1992 and, to the south, Lenora, where her daughter Alpha Mabel White was born in 1897:
Location of Norton County in northwestern Kansas:
Oregon Short Line Railroad system in southwestern Idaho in 1922 showing location of towns where Almeda Amanda Ambrosier and Alva Asbury White lived. From east to west along the main line, they are Minidoka (incidentally, where a Japanese internment camp was set up during World War II), Mountain Home, Boise on a spur from Nampa, and Payette (where I went to school in the seventh and eighth grades).