Caldwell County MO Archives History .....COMMENTARY ON WHITE CEMETERY IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP 
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			COMMENTARY ON WHITE CEMETERY IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  A.M. O'Dell of Catawba

     The narrator lives just across from the cemetery, he is very old, being a 
Civil War veteran, and moreover, he is descended from some of the earliest 
settlers in Caldwell county.  Hence his word is dependable.
     There are several O'Dells buried here, but not the original settlers, 
Caleb and Francis who entered land in Kingston township 1835-6.
     Here lies the Ilett Tobbin family of interest on account of his large 
landed estate.  (See the Ilett Tobbin paper.)  Here lie about 25 of the 
Stubblefield family, and some of the lines do not bury here.  The earliest of 
the name to come into the county was John 1803-1869, and he and wife Martha 
are here.  From John, came the large number of Stubblefields in the county.
     Elmore Waters 1815-1892, and his wife came 1855, and Gallatin Noblett 
came in the fifties, they are here.  By Noblett, rest his three wives.  Jas. 
G. Mackey, Elias Nichols who came 1852, David Mowder who came in 1854 all 
point to the fact that this is a rare graveyard of pioneers.
     Such is the story told by the stones and tradition, but there are many 
graves there too, which represent families which have passed entirely out of 
the county and out of memory.  If stones or wooden slabs ever stood over them, 
they are long since gone.  Burials still occur in White graveyard and it is 
well-kept.  Mr. O'Dell says that he has heard that the first burials there 
were of the early Mormons who were thick in this part of the county, but he 
has no proof, just the say-so of others.  There is an unmarked grave of a 
Confederate soldier one Jas. Bradley, buried there by Capt. Noblett, the 
location being yet known.  Many graves are marked by field stones, and in some 
cases the identity of the graves is now lost.
     Interview  1933. 


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