Contributed by Barbara Pollard
Obituary for Ratio White in the Gilmer Mirror March 1948

RATIO (RACE) WHITE
DIED SUDDENLY
WEDNESDAY MORNING

Ratio White, better known to all as "Race", died suddenly 
Wednesday morning March 16, 1948 at 2 o'clock. Mr. White 
had spent his entire life in Upshur County and had a wide 
circle of friends here.

The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dan White, he was born May 
27, 1881 in Pritchett. At the age of 17 he lost his leg in 
an accident in a gin where he was working. He lived on the 
Pritchett Road a few miles from Gilmer.

He was a member of the West Mountain Church of Christ. 
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock 
at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel. Carl Holloway of Pritchett 
and Carl Tyson of East Mountain, ministers, conducted the 
service. Harmon Morgan of West Mountain had charge of the music. 
Songs sung were "Farther Along"; "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" 
and "God Be With You". 

Interment was at Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Croley Funeral Home 
in charge.