William JARED No. 19 BOOK OF JARED, was indeed a Methodist Minister, According to a History of White County,
he was not only the first Circuit Rider in what is now White County, but was also headmaster of the first school to be
organized in the county. He was known for his firm discipline. Although he was reputed to have owned two or three
household slaves his sympathies were definitely with the Union in the controversy preceding the Civil War. According
to my Aunt Alice Jared Kirby, his wife, Martha Jett, was a granddaughter of John White for whom White County was
named.