Isabella Lawson Harvey White French
Birth 19 May 1820 in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
Death 13 July 1872 in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee

Isabella Lawson (Harvey) White was born on May 19, 1820, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Elizabeth Moore Carrick and Senator and Tennessee Supreme Court Judge Hugh Lawson White. In her father's Bible she was entered as Isabella Harvey White, but she only used Isabella Lawson White.

Her mother, Elizabeth Moore Carrick White, passed away on March 25, 1831 at Natural Bridge Tavern in Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia about 320 miles distant from Knoxville, at the age of 48 of consumption. At the time of her mother's death, Isabella was attending Knoxville Female Academy with her niece, Nancy Newton Scott who was close in age. Her father, Senator Hugh Lawson White, passed away on April 10, 1840, in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 66.

Isabella Lawson White married William Baxter French, a Knoxville lawyer, in Davidson County, Tennessee, on February 2, 1843, when she was 22 years old. Her son, Hugh Lawson White French, was born on October 28, 1844, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her son, Allen May French, was born on February 4, 1847, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her son, William Baxter French, Jr., was born on December 31, 1848, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Isabella L was living with her husband , her three sons and her niece Nancy Newton Scott, who like Isabella, had lost both parents, in Subdivision 15, Knox, Tennessee, in 1850. Her husband was not in the 1870 census with her and 2 of her sons, so he must have died between 1850 and 1870. There was an epidemic of asiatic cholera that took many residents of Knoxville in 1854.

In 1869 Knoxville City Directory, she is living with two of her sons
(Mrs I L French, rns Church, b Locust and Henley
--W B French clk for Cowan, McClung & C0-bds with Mrs I L French
-- H L W French lawyer for Sneed, Comfort & French bds with Mrs I L French)

Isabella Lawson White French died on July 13, 1872, in Knoxville, Tennessee, when she was 52 years old and she was buried in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville.

3 known sons
1 Hugh Lawson White French
Birth 28 Oct 1844 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
DEATH after 1869 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee burial Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
in 1869 Knoxville City Directory--H L W French- lawyer for Sneed, Comfort & French bds with Mrs I L French

2 Allen May French MD
Birth 4 Feb 1847 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
Death 11 Jul 1879 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee buried in Old Gray Cemetery, Knox, Tennessee

3 William Baxter French Jr
Birth 31 Dec 1848 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee
Death 29 Dec 1873 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee buried in Old Gray Cemetery, Knox, Tennessee