Iowa Family Group Record for Nathaniel F White
Submitted by: Cathy Joynt Labath
Email: labaths@celticcousins.net
Husband: Nathaniel F White
Born: 16 Apr 1811 - Hamilton County, Ohio
Died: 17 Jun 1883 - Tippecanoe Twp, Henry Co, Iowa
Cause of Death: Bright's disease
Buried: Jun 1883 - Oakland Milles Cemetery, Henry County, Iowa
Father: Morgan White ( - )
Mother: Catherine French ( - )
Marriage: 10 Oct 1833
Place: Schuyler County, Illinois
Wife: Mary A Rose
Born: 1 Feb 1814 - Fleming County, Kentucky
Died: 28 Jan 1897 - Mt. Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
Buried: - Oakland Cemetery, Henry County, Iowa
Father: Ezekiel Rose (Abt 1784-1868)
Mother: Catherine Stites (1792-1871)
Children
1 F Emeline White
Born: 1839 - Iowa
Died: 30 Sep 1858
Buried: - Old Richwood Cemetery, Henry Co, IA
Spouse: Samuel Summers ( - )
Marr. Date: 9 Dec 1857
2 F Rachel A. White
Born: 21 Jul 1841 - Iowa
Died: 16 Oct 1923
Buried:
Spouse: Marcus Kilbourne Smith (1834-1909)
Marr. Date: 5 Mar 1857 - Henry County, Iowa
3 M John N White
Born: 1846 - Iowa
Died: 1878
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Lowen (1848-1874)
Marr. Date: 10 Dec 1872 - Jefferson Co, Iowa
4 M Edward Ezekiel White
Born: 24 Apr 1849 - Iowa
Died:
Buried: - Oakland Milles Cemetery, Henry County, Iowa
Spouse: Dora A Bell (Abt 1858-1883)
Marr. Date: 25 Oct 1877
General Notes (Husband)
1856 Iowa State Census, Tippecanoe Twp, Henry Co. Stamped page 331.
Home-Family, Name, age, sex, marital status, #yrs res in IA, POB, Occup.
48-48
Nathan White,45,m,m,20,OH,Farmer
Mary A White,42,f,m,20,KY
Emiline White,17,f,s,17,IO
Rachel White,15,f,s,15,IO
John N White,15,m,s,15,IO
Edward White,7,m,s,7,IO
1860 Federal Census, Tippecanoe Twp, Henry Co p. 361
Nathaniel, 49, Farmer, 1600,600,Ohio
Mary,46, Ky, can't read or write
John N, 14, Iowa
Edward, 11, Iowa
Naoma (domestic), age 14 b. Ill
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's
Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Edward E. WHITE Self M Male W 30 IA Farmer OH KY
Dora A. WHITE Wife M Female W 22 IA Keeps Hou
Nathaniel F. WHITE Father M Male W 70 OH At Home PA PA
Mary WHITE Mother M Female W 62 KY At Home NJ NJ
Henry H. DENMAN Other S Male W 22 IN Farmer IN IN
Source Information:
Census Place Tippecanoe, Henry, Iowa
Family History Library Film 1254344
NA Film Number T9-0344
Page Number 274D
Nathaniel and Mary Rose were early settlers in Henry County , Tippecanoe
County.
Nathaniel T. White, a farmer in Henry County, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio
in 1811; moved with his parents to Indiana then on to Illinois in 1820. He met
his wife, Mary Rose in Brown County, Illinois and married in 1833. They lived
in Illinois until 1836 when they moved to Burlington, Iowa. They resided there
for 3 years.
In 1839 Mr. White bought a tract of wild timber in Henry County. In the midst
of a green forest, he built in 1841, a one room log cabin. Having provided
shelter for his family, he began to clear the land and placed fifty acres into
farm land. He also worked his trade of cabinet making. His brother, Samuel S.
White built the first log cabin in Flint Hills, later Burlington, Iowa.
With his father and brother, Nathaniel explored the Iowa purchase as early as
1835 and often saw the Sac warrior, Black Hawk. They staked out claims for
homestead on the Des Moines River in what is now Van Buren County, but becoming
convinced that civilization would never permanently extend so far westward,
they abandoned the claims. Mr. and Mrs. White were the parents of four
children.
Obituary from the Mt. Pleasant Free Press, 21 June 1883:
DIED- On the 17th day of June, 1883, at his residence in Tippecanoe township,
Mr. Nathan F. White, in the 72nd year of his age.
Father may be Jacob White. Jacob is living very close to Ezekiel Rose in 1830
Schuyler County, Illinois Census.
Obituary from the Mt. Pleasant Free Press, 21 June 1883:
Mr. White was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, April 16th, 1811, moved with his
parents to Indiana in 1819, from thence to Schuyler county, Ill. in 1820, and
settled with his parents on the land on which Rushville, the capital of
Schuyler county now stands, which his father entered and owned for some years.
At the age of eighteen, he learned the trade of cabinet making, which trade he
worked at for some years. Moved to Burlington, Iowa, in 1836, worked at his
trade while there, helped make the furniture for the new State House after the
old one had burned, the capital being at Burlington. As a cabinet maker he was
second to none. He removed to Mt. Pleasant in the year 1839. Here he worked at
his trade for about one year, he then moved on to the farm owned since the year
1840.-Married Mary A. Rose, a native of Kentucky, Oct 10, 1833. Had four
children, two of whom survive him, Edward E., of Tippecanoe township, and Mrs.
Mark Smith, of Jefferson county.
He, with his father and brother, traveled over Iowa as early as the year
1835. Has seen the Chief Blackhawk and family. While traveling throughout Iowa
staked themselves claims on the Des Moines river, in what is now Van Buren
county, but thinking that the country would never settle up so far west, never
returned to their claims.
He was a wise counsellor and a friend in time of need. In the year 1851 when
the Asiatic cholera raged in Tippecanoe township, he spent his time day and
night caring for the sick and burying the dead. By his gentlemanly bearing, his
uniform kindness and noble generosity he created many warm friends. In all the
relations of a husband, father, neighbor, citizen and friend, he discharged his
duties with uprightness and fidelity. Over his family he watched with all the
tenderness and solicitude of a kind father.
He was a lover of education, greatly enjoyed the presence of children. He will
be missed greatly by the children of the school which he visited while his
health permitted.
His death was caused by Brights disease. Has been an invalid for nearly five
years, gradually growing weaker and weaker. He suffered much bodily pain but
endured it with patience and fortitude. He had premonitions of his death and
his firm faith in God caused him to look forward to his dissolution with hope,
not with dread.
His funeral was attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors who
deeply sympathize with the bereaved family. The loss his death has caused
cannot be repaired
I found this in the Nathaniel White File at the Mt. Pleasant Public
Library. I looked for obituaries for Jim Green, Margaret Green Eckey,
Ruth Lawrence Caris, and Don Lawrence to see if they might have died
and who their survivors were, but didn't find any. Dick Van Tuyl still
lives in Mt. Pleasant and you should be able to find his phone number in
most online phonebooks. He may know more about the cabin and Nathaniel
White's descendants since he first proposed the city preserve it.
Leslie W. Saint
April 12, 1985
To Mayor Edd King and Members of the City Council of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa:
The following historical account of the log cabin in Saunders Park was
"gleaned" from local history research done by junior high students in
past years. The names are the students whose topics related to the log
cabin.
Historical Henry County-1965-Jeanne Coyle, Janet Oldt, Suzann Roth, Pam
Myers
Henry County Yesterdays-1967- Elizabeth Miller, Susan Shappel, Julie Woline
Henry County Heritge-1970- Lloyd Carver, Anthony Maze
Once Upon a Time-1973 Danny Kennedy, Terry Leu
Doors into Yesterda -1974- Bob Donnolly, Ed Hamm
The students based their information on a printed history of the
cabin which hung on the inside wall of the cabin along with the
portraits of the original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel White. Since
the local history project was done mostly outside of school hours, the
students would go to the city hall, borrow the key to the cabin, and
proceed to the park to investigate, and perhaps make some drawings. It
is possible, too, that they had interviews with "key" persons who had a
knowledge of the cabin's history. The following is the combined
information gathered by the students.
" ... Nathaniel White (1811-1883) built the cabin in 1841 on a heavily
wooded area of land, Section 12, Tippecanoe Township, three miles west
of Mt. Pleasant. Nathaniel was a farmer and cabinet-maker by trade and
also the local doctor (especially in cases of cholera). He would go for
miles in his buggy to treat a sick person. He was also a coffin-maker
for the county. Mr. White's grave is in the Oakland Mills Cemetery.
'Engraved on his tombstone are these words: 'A PIONEER HATH FALLEN.'
Portraits of both Mr. and Mrs. White are hanging in the log cabin. The
Whites had two children.
". . . In 1932 when Mr. Thomas McMillan was city manager of Mt.
Pleasant, the log cabin was purchased from the Ed P. Smiths who had
purchased the cabin and the land from the Nathaniel White estate. (This
is the Charles Dyall farm now.) The price paid for the log cabin was one
hundred dollars.
... The cabin belonged to the White family for 90 years. In 1932 the
cabin was taken down, moved to Saunders Park, and was rebuilt under the
supervision of Karl A. Bergdahl."
"There are two granddaughters of Nathaniel White who are still
living: Mrs. Iantha Metcalf, 79, and Mrs. Martha A. Litton, 83, They are
both living in Lockridge." (A direct quote from the 1965 and 1970
publications.)
"Mrs. Harry Green of Mt. Pleasant is a descendant of Nathaniel
White." (A direct quote from the 1967 publication.)
I know of some present-day descendants of the Nathaniel Whites: Jim
Green and Margaret Green Eckey of Mt. Pleasant, my sister-in-law, Ruth
Lawrence Caris of Burnsville, Minnesota, and her brother, Don Lawrence
of Roseville, Illinois. No doubt there are other living descendants, too.
I am convinced that a log cabin built in 1841 (before Iowa was a
state AND just eight years after this area was opened for settling) is
historical and deserves preserving! How many original log cabins do we
have in Henry County?
Thank you for giving the log cabin in Saunders Park your consideration.
Sincerely,
(ed.--signatures)
Virginia Caris Van Tuyl
Mr. Richard Van Tuyl
Property of Henry County Historical Society (ed.--hand stamped on the
letter)
General Notes (Wife)
Excerpt from The History of Henry County, Iowa; Copyright 1982 (Submitt
ed by Maisie Green)
Actual Biography was on husband, Nathaniel White:
"Mary Rose was a native of Fleming County, Kentucky and the daughter of Ezekiel
and Catherine Sites Rose, both of them being natives of New Jersey. In 1828 she
accompanied her parents to Brown County, Illinois where she met Nathaniel
White."
Henry Co., IA Genealogical Society could not locate obit for Mary Rose White.
THE EZEKIEL ROSE FAMILY
p. 301 Brown Co. History
"Ezekiel Rose, Sr. was one of the early pioneers of Brown County. He was
born in Virginia in 1876 and while still young moved to Kentucky. There he
married Catherine Stites and they came to the "wilds of Illinois" by
prairie schooner in 1829. On that trip they brought with them some of the
first livestock along with their family of sons. They chose the northwest
quarter of Section 16 in Cooperstown Township to make their homestead and here
they built a log cabin and put in a crop. The original grant was from the U.S.
Government and remained in the Rose family for over a hundred years when it was
sold to the Volk family in 1932.
The hardships that must have been endured by these early settlers can
easily be imagined. There is the story of the terrible winter of 1830. Former
neighbors of the Roses in Kentucky, the Ralph Alexander family, came to
Illinois that fall. They offered to help Ezekiel harvest his first corn crop,
in return for help in building a cabin. Alas! the "Big Snow" came before they
were finished. As a result, all of them lived in the Roses' cabin that
winter. It is said there were seventeen.
Ezekiel and Catherine reared a family of ten. Three of the children spent
their entire lives in Brown County, founding families well known in the
community. Rachel married William Mobley; Martha married G. R. Logsdon;
and Ezekiel married Elizabeth Logsdon. Ezekiel and Elizabeth remained on the
home place, living in a large two story house, set well back in a grove of
maple trees, at a cross roads, known for years as the "Rose Corner." To them
seven children were born: Lucy, 1860; Kate, 1863; Joe, 1866; George, 1870;
James, 1873; Herbert, 1876; and Ira, 1880. Ira died in infancy.
Of these children four: Kate, George, James, and Bert spent most of their
lives in Brown County, except for time away at school.
Lucy married John Hankins and they settled near Springfield, Illinois. They
had two children, Lloyd and Rosalie. Lloyd has one daughter, Mary Lou.
Joe married Grace Nye and later moved to Nebraska.
Kate married Dr. James Snyder. After his early death, she resided with her
widowed mother on the home place. James remained a bachelor and made his home
with them.
George married Maude Cox. Their children were: Eugene C., James Robert,
and a daughter, Lula Jean, who died in childhood.
Herbert first married Nelle Cox, daughter of Stephen Cox. She died in the
second year of their marriage. Later he married Elizabeth Morrison. They had
one daughter, Barbara.
All of the children of Ezekiel, Jr. were interested in music. The boys
all played in the old Brown County Band. George and Bert were also talented
violinists, and kept up their music throughout their lives. Kate Snyder
taught piano and elocution. She was noted in the community for her ability to
give readings, which she was able to do even in her ninetieth year."
From Katherine Sparks,cousin, descendant also of Mary Rose and Nathaniel White;
Rachel White and Marcus K. Smith: (She received from someone else in Brown Co,
IL)
>From my own files I show Ezekiel had a brother, Richard. Their father was
Jonathan Rose and his father was Ezekiel Rose and his father John Rose and
his father Tormut Rose. I do not show anywhere that Ezekiel had a daughter
named Mary.
Ezekiel Rose found in 1820 census of Brown Co, IL as well as Richard Rose.
Perhaps Richard Rose is Mary's father? Richard Rose also found on 1820 census.
--------------------------------------------------
Mt. Pleasant Weekly News
Mt. Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
Wednesday, Feb 3, 1897
Mrs. Mary WHITE died Thursday morning about 4 o'clock. She had been sick
for some time. She was buried at Oakland cemetery Saturday, Rev. Walters, of
Mt. Pleasant conducting the service at the Oakland school house
-----------------------------------------------
Mt. Pleasant Weekly News
Mt. Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
Wednesday, Feb 24, 1897
Obituary of Mary White
Died at her residence three miles west of this city on the morning of
January 28th, Mrs. Mary A. White, aged 83 years, 11 months and 27 days.
Mary A Rose was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, February 1st, 1814,
moved with her parents to Brown county Illinois in the year 1828, married
Nathaniel F. White, Oct. 10th, 1833, moved to Burlington, Iowa in the year
1836, here her husband worked at this trade, that of cabinet making for three
years. Burlington at that time was but a small village of log huts having been
laide out in the year 1834 by Samuel S White, a cousin to Mrs. White's husband.
Moved to Mt. Pleasant in the year 1839. Here her husband worked at his trade
for one year, moving on the farm in the spring of 1840 where they remained the
rest of their lives. Mrs. White having lived almost 67 years at the same home.
They had four children, two sons and two daughters. One daughter died in the
year 1858 and one son in the year 1878, leaving one son Edward E., of LaHoyt
and one daughter, Mrs. Mark Smith of Glasgow, Jefferson, Iowa.
Mrs. White's husband died in the year 1883. Since that time she has made her
home with her son and little grand daughter, on the old homestead. Her last
illness was caused by her falling down while walking across the room. She
having injured herself in such a way that she never again stood on her feet.
She suffered a great deal, and the ten weeks that she was afflicted she
received the most kind and constant care and attention that her relatives and
many kind friends could bestow. Like a peaceful river with green and shaded
banks she flowed without a murmur into the waveless sea where life is rest.
Deceased was not for many years a member of any church. She believed in a
religion not of creeds, but of good deeds and there was no night too dark
stormy or cold for her to minister to a sick neighbor or friend when health
permitted. With Paine the world was her country, to do good her religion. She
believed it to be no crime to think independent of any book or creed; then
after she had thought, she believed it to be no crime to express her honest
thoughts. She climbed the heights and left all superstition far below. She had
no faith in the change of heart that comes to a person impelled by a fear of
death, believed that when a person comes to the end of their life, they must go
into the other world with the record of their entire life before them. They
could not in her opinion, be judged by anything else. Certainly the record of
an upright honest life, that has never bowed to bigotry, but has moved clear
and free in a channel of its own making, cleft by its onward rush of thought,
must weigh against the record of a bad ife, that is only supposed to be
cleansed for the next by a death-bed repentance. Her conscience did not trouble
her. She did not fear death. She died as she had lived. Here was one honest
woman going to her death with her mind clear and untroubled. Her belief was to
her an earnest faith. Unmoved in her calm belief that she should be fairly
judged. She passed away without murmur. The funeral oration was delivered at
the Oakland school house by Bennett Walters, of Mt. Pleasant. The remains were
interred beside her husband in the Oakland cemetery.
Notes (Marriage)
Other sources say marriage took place in Brown Co, Illinois
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
WHITE, NATHANIEL ROSE, MARY ANN
10/10/1833 001/0022 00000182 SCHUYLER
**************************************************
Copyright © 2007 by Cathy Joynt Labath. All rights reserved.
http://www.iagenweb.org/state/disclaim.htm
**************************************************
