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"White Cemetery" is located on Stockham Road off of SR 139 near Minford.It is the final resting place for pioneer founders of this area that once thrived.These same founders have connections back to the Mayflower and the infamous John Smith from Massachusetts in the late 1600's. Visit the grave of John White ((1794-1874) and his wife Silvia while here.
"White Hill", "White Run" and "White Cemetery" are all that remain today."Whites School" though historical is gone as well.The "White" Family roots run deep. From the Mayflower to Massachusetts, to New Hampshire to the French Grant in Scioto County and north from the Ohio River. Quite a family history connection.
The Mayflower Connection: From the "The White Family of Brookfield, MA- Westmoreland, NH and Scioto Co, OH."
"The West Brookfield area home of John White's was built on original land grant stands and was beautifully restored as the Salem Cross Inn. The home was finished by John White's family after his killing by Indians in a Massachusetts hay field July 22, 1710. The house was inhabited by his widow Prudence Hayward and his youngest son Cornelius White, who was born 6 months after his father's death. In total, eight generations of White descendants lived in the home. Listed on the National Historic Register, the house's front door latch holds a witch-mark, designed to protect the inhabitants.
During the time period that John White acquired his acreage we know Brookfield land was given to young men both to keep the local sons in the area and to attract the military men the town needed for protection against the Indians. We know that he was enumerated as Sergt. John White on the list of 30 October 1706 Brookfield inhabitants and was granted 62 acres of land 8 March 1710 provided he live in the place for four years. Four months later he was dead at the hand of Indians.
John White's parentage is a mystery this researcher would very much love to solve. Is he a grandson of Mayflower baby Peregrine White, as the house's current owners purport?
Descendants of John White
Generation No. 1
1. John White died 20 Jul 1710 in Brookfield, Worcester Co, MA. He married Prudence Hayward 26 Nov 1707 in Concord, Middlesex Co, MA. She was born 19 Jun 1687, probably in Concord, Middlesex Co, MA7, and died 27 Dec 1736 in Plainfield, Windham Co, CT8 and is buried in Old Settlers Cemetery.
Brookfield, MA Inhabitants 30 October 1706 - Sergt. John White History of North Brookfield, Mass, p. 175:
To insure (standing guards for the inhabitants) and to hold out inducements to the sons of the first planters to remain, the Committee, at the meeting held Mar. 8, 1710, granted to Sergt. John White, 42 acres of upland and 20 of meadow, "provided he live in the place four years after he is wholly disbanded, and pay rates."
History of North Brookfield, Mass. p. 176:
The most distressing disaster on our frontiers this year, happened at Brookfield. July 22 (1710) "six men, viz. Ebenezer Hayward, John White, Stephen Jennings, Benjamin Jennings, John Grosvenor and Joseph Kellogg were making hay in the meadows, when the Indians, who had been watching an opportunity to surprise them, sprang suddenly upon them, despatched five of them, and took the other (John White) prisoner. White, spying a small company of our people at some distance, jumped from the Indians that held him and ran to join his friends; but the Indian fired after him and wounded him in the thigh, by which he fell; but soon recovering and running again, he was again fired at and received his death wound."
Children of Moses White and Dinah Stone are:
15 i. Sarah4 White, born 16 Nov 1767 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH31.
16 ii. Soloman White, born 17 Oct 1769 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH31.
*17 iii. Capt. Bethuel White, born 01 Dec 1771 in
Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH; died Aug 1819 in
Scioto Co, OH.
17. Capt. Bethuel White (Moses, Cornelius, John) was born 01 Dec 1771 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH and died Aug 1819 in Scioto Co, OH. He married (1) Margery Daniels 25 Feb 1796 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH, daughter of Increase Daniels and Elona Thayer. She was born 12 Nov 1773 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH and died 23 Nov 1808 in Littleton, Grafton Co, NH. He married (2) Ruth Gates Whipple 1810. She died 1815. He married (3) Lucy 1816. She was born Bet. 1779 - 1780), and died 12 Jun 1822 in Scioto Co, OH.
Came to Ohio in September 1814 and located at Burk's Point, and the following spring bought the upper half of the lower lot of the French Grant. (History of Lower Scioto Valley)
Among the later New Hampshire Yankees to become land owners in the French Grant, and still entitled to the distinction of real pioneers were Bethuel White, who settled at Burke's Point in the spring of 1815. (A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio)
Scioto Co, OH Chancery Record 1821-1847, Supreme Court, p. 77. Thayer D. White vs Hezekiah Smith, 5 May 1827. Petitioners Thayer D., Sophronia Hard (late White), whife of Jonathon B. Hard, Livinia (Serena?) White, Amanda White, Barton White, Bethuel, heirs of Bethuel White, deceased, last three being under 21, prosecuting by their brother Thayer. Said their father Bethuel died intestate, seized of Green Township lot 7, Safford lot. Smith in May 1817 wanted to buy from their father. Deed given to Walter Dunn to be given to Smith when paid by 1 June 1818. Bethuel's wife Lucy. Found for complainant.
Resided in Littleton, NH from 1800 - 1814. Merchant. Selectman 1806. After 1814 they emigrated to Ky. (History of Littleton, NH Vol III)
Children of Bethuel White and Margery Daniels are:
+ 30 i. Sophronia5 White, born 19 Jun 1798 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH; died Aft. 1850.
+ 31 ii. Thayer Daniels White, born 18 Jul 1800 in Littleton, Grafton Co, NH; died 1886.
32 iii. Serena White, born 09 Sep 1802 in Littleton, Grafton Co, NH56.
33 iv. Bartin White, born 18 Jun 1805 in Littleton, Grafton Co, NH56.
30. Sophronia White (Bethuel, Moses, Cornelius, John)70 was born 19 Jun 1798 in Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, NH and died Aft. 1850. She married Jonathan Benedict Hard 22 Feb 1816 in Scioto Co, OH son of Elisha Hard and Mary Benedict. He was born 13 Dec 1793 in Bennington Co, VT, and died 24 Sep 1841 in Green Township, Scioto Co, OH."
Another interesting story about the Whites here is the adoption by Ana-Na-Ha, a full blood Cherokee by Mr. and Mrs. James White in 1816. History tells that Mr. White was on a hunting trip in Upper New York State with a party of Cherokees. Ana-Na-Ha was born and left in the woods to die because she was a sickly baby. Mr. White took her to his cabin where he and his wife raised and educated her, giving her the name of Jane White. She was a herbist and a midwife who freely doctored and cared for her neighbors in Madison Township in 1888.
Today this area is all agricultural. Only a few now carry the memories of a little community known as "White". The "White Cemetery" is the final resting place for yet another generation of Whites- born in the last 1700's and early 1800's who raised families and thrived in this territory when it was still wild.
The cache is a camouflaged medium pill bottle. Bring a pen.
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