Martin White 2015 Presentation and Query

Elder Martin White's Biography (off-site)

Presentation Praise (off-site)

Presentation Praise, Part Two (off-site)

Although I presented the White's family story in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois in May 2015, I'm continuing to dig for more information on Martin, Kiturah, and their children, so I still have a request for my cousins -- I am completing my grandmother's research on my 3rd great-grandparents because I am a promise-keeper and I have found much new information that she was not able to obtain during her own research because 1.) she was collecting as much as she could on all the descendants which was a huge undertaking in the days before the internet and 2.) the information was just not available to her or her assistants, even though she traveled to Kentucky where he was born, to Illinois, Kansas and the Missouri border area where he eventually died. She even corresponded by letter with many cousins, most of whom have passed away by now.

Unfortunately, the records that my grandmother copied or received during her family research were burned. The only thing I had in the beginning of my research on Martin & Kiturah was their story preserved in the red White book that my Grandmother published in 1983.  

I'm seeking two things especially, but as with any story, there are always more things I want to know about my 3rd great-grandparents. The two things I would like to have especially is a photograph of Martin and Kiturah (Kitty, Katie). Grandma was able to obtain photographs of some of their children and grandchildren which was eventually published in her genealogy. There are many photographs out there of Abraham Lincoln, so they lived during the time when photographs were possible, but I'm not sure if they ever had their photograph taken or if anyone ever drew or painted their portraits. 

The other thing I would like to have are samples of Martin's handwriting. Do you have any letters or documents with his signature that's been handed down in your family that is not from the internet, that you would be willing to photocopy or scan to share with me? I need family samples to verify what I have found on the internet. If you have either thing, please leave a comment for me in the comment section below. I moderate all comments before I publish them, so if you have personal information such as an email or a home address in your comment, it will not be published -- it's safe with me. However, if you wish to be counted as a member of the family, it would be best to make two comments -- one for me to keep containing your personal information and one to publish here.

I have been approached by people wanting to sell records to me pertaining to Martin White. As to that, I am NOT interested. So don't even bother trying to scam me. 

You would make my day if you have either requested item or another personal object of Martin's such as his Bible, his hymnal, a ministerial logbook or church minutes from Liberty Mosquito, Elk Fork or Pleasant Gap Primitive Baptist churches, sermons, his pulpit or powder horn or something of Kiturah's like a handwritten recipe, a list of Bible family records, her favorite Bible verse, a hand-crafted object and so forth.  These may be added to my family tree on Ancestry. Thank you in advance!

More to Read:

1. Border Ballads

2. Decoration Day

3. In Memory of Her Veterans

4. Preacher Man 

Click on the label "White" at the bottom of this post for information about other White descendants that I have written about or included in other posts. 

Written by Dolores J. Rush. 

Family History Funnies

 

A girlfriend sent me this cartoon, knowing my interest in family history.

I just had to share with you all, since you are perhaps a relative! smile!

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Nuts in the Cemetery

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. "One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me, " said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence. 

Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me!' He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. 

'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls!' 

The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk.' When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.' The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been tellin' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord.'

Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord. 

At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done.'

They say the old man had the lead for a good half-mile before the kid on the bike passed him.

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and a few favorites gathered from Pinterest

Tornado Alley

My head swiveled to the left after a sixth grader behind me yelled, "Tornado! There's a tornado!" As a first grader, that black ominous long snaky thing tearing up the ground, still several miles away, terrified, yet fascinated me and I was rooted to my seat. But not for long. Our pale-faced bus driver went into immediate action, stopping the bus at the next bus stop and pulling children out of their seats, urging them to quickly exit the bus into the waiting arms of a mother who had come for her children. We ran for her house, fighting the wind and rain that began to pelt us, stinging our heads and legs, and diving into her basement. I remember, as I sat there on the dusty basement floor with all the other children, while the two adults peeked out of her windows from time to time, I prayed "God save us." The Lord's listened to a terrified little girl's prayers, he put down his hand of protection and the tornado, when it was within a mile of our bus, turned south and lifted. (1966).

That was a close call. There have been other close calls as we live in Tornado Alley, a section of the Midwest known for rip snortin' bad weather in the spring. In 1957, there was a particularly bad one remembered by citizens who lived here then which wiped out a large portion of south Kansas City in an area known as Ruskin Heights, a newly built suburb for returning veterans and their families. My parents didn't move to the Kansas City area until a year after the terrible tragedy occurred. 

Ruskin Heights has been rebuilt. In fact, you wouldn't even know the area had been devastated by such a terrible calamity today, but there is a memorial on the main road which reminds us of that day as we drive by.

Ruskin Heights Tornado Memorial

In perpetual memory of those residents of Ruskin Heights who, having lost even the most precious of life's blessings in the tragedy that struck this community May 20, 1957, found the will and spiritual strength to here build anew. This memorial is dedicated to those who lost their lives that night and, in so doing, gave to this community the high resolve to perpetuate that which they helped to build. Dedicated May 18, 1958.

More to Read & Watch:

Caught Ever After, Children of the Ruskin Heights Tornado. By Carolyn Glenn Brewer. Amazon. 

Caught In the Path: A Tornado's Fury, A Community's Rebirth.  By Carolyn Glenn Brewer. Amazon. 

The Ruskin Heights Tornado

Ruskin Heights Tornado

Ruskin Heights Tornado 1957

ruskin heights, missouri may 1957 tornado

                           23: Ruskin Heights tornado

          Saturday marked 60 years since the Ruskin Heights tornado

60th Anniversary of the Ruskin Heights Tornado

Boone Family Research Links

My grandmother asked me to continue her research on the Boone connection to her family that she found just before she published her White genealogy in 1983 which I have done. I want to compile a source list for those who keep pestering me for info on the Boone Family. Since so many have kindly shared with me, I think it's only fair that I pass on the favor. I have many bookmarked Boone websites at the moment, but it is nothing like the one I had before my computer crashed in June 2021. So here goes (and by the way, if you find a dead link, let me know in the comments below, so I can fix it. Thanks.)

I met the Boone Society's official genealogist, Dorthy Mack, in person for the first and last time in 2016 and we took her out to eat at Jack Stack's Barbeque Restaurant in Martin City, Missouri on Father's Day of that year. She was returning home after a Boone Family Reunion. Sadly, she passed away on the 8th of April 2021. She was my feisty friend. The new Boone Society genealogist is Dorthy's Find-a-grave's memorial manager, so if my list doesn't work for you, go ask her. 

Some Allied Family Surnames: Berry, Boone, Bradley, Brooks, Bryan, Callaway, Castlio, Day, Elston, Darst, Douglass, Fletcher, Frey, Grow, Grubbs, Harmon, Hays, Howell, Lander, Liggett, Linville, Martin, Mock, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Muir, Pennington, Scholl, Strode, Theobald, Van Bibber, Watts, Wilcoxson, Yeates

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By the way, I DNA match several Boones on Ancestry. Too bad many of them don't have trees. 

Before you begin to research your family roots, write down everything you know about your family, beginning with yourself and work backwards. There are fill-in worksheets at most libraries/genealogical centers that can help make this process easier, but failing that, take a spiral notebook and fill out one sheet per person, beginning with yourself and working backwards. Write down your full name, your birth date and where you were born, your marriage record and place, etc. in a list form. The worksheets usually have fill-in-the-blank spaces for birth date & place, marriage date/place and death date/place. It would be nice to create another couple of lines for a burial place as well for the deceased members of your tree. Then, create a sheet apiece for your parent's basic stats. You can list your siblings on your parent's sheets as "children." And so on, up to your grandparents, as far back as you can go. Interview your parents and your siblings for as much information as they remember about your family tree. It may take several tries to jog the memory center of the brain. Also, ask them about family photographs or certificates while you are asking for family information. That may also help shake memories loose as well. 

Next, before you ever check out the genealogy sites on the internet, take your spiral notebook with you to your local library or genealogy center or historical/genealogical society. Be sure to ask the staff for help if you get stuck. Their job is to assist their patrons and they may be a wealth of information too. I take advantage of mining people's brains when I can. My dad always said if you don't ask questions, you won't know what you want to know. Be sure to write down what information you found and where you obtained it. That's called citing your sources. Let me tell you, once you get into researching your family, you won't remember where you got that information, unless you are one of the rare individuals with a photographic memory. Write it down!  

Look for records that mention your family members to document your BOONE ancestors at the library.  Begin with Hazel Spraker's Boone Family genealogical book (see book list *** below).  You may also be able to order books and periodicals through World Cat at your local library. 

You may have to order some certificates from Vital Records (courthouse) in the state in which your Boone relatives lived, although some may be available online. For instance, Missouri has death certificates from 1910 to 1963 online and there are a few previous to 1910 at the same database. And I mention many of the other types of records your ancestor and relatives may have in their possession that you can use to document their lives in several posts on this blog. Look under the labels "Paper Trail" and "Research Basics." 

Seek the truth and document everything with the appropriate records. Don't accept every Tom, Dick, and Harry's say-so, especially if he doesn't have paper records with a source listed to back it up. The more records you have, the better you get to know your ancestors and I have found that useful when someone wanted to write "fiction" about one of my ancestors. 

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There are many counties, schools, and streets named in honor of the Boone and allied families such as Boone County, Missouri; Boone Street in Lecompton, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri; Liggett and Strode Roads in Blue Springs, Missouri; etc. 

Books:

My Google Library Boone bookshelf

• The Boone Family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1922. Internet Archive.  
• The Boone Bible has been donated to the Missouri State Historical Society. 
• "Boone Family Echoes" newsletters. Beulah Boone Collection. Jackson County Historical Society (JCHS) (Recommended by David W. Jackson)
• Before Abolition: African Americans in early Clark County, Kentucky. By Lyndon Comstock. 2017. Amazon
• Bristow-Douglass; the Rev. James Jackson Bristow and Sarah Douglass Bristow, their ancestors and their descendants, 1640-1961. Compiled by Julia J. Bristow. Lincoln, NE, 1960. Internet Archive. 
• Hannah Boone and Her Descendants. By Bess L. Hawthorne. Chedwato Service, Burlington, VT., 1960. Internet Archive. 
• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri. By William Smith Bryan & Robert Rose. Genealogical Pub, Co, Baltimore, 1977. Internet Archive
• Boonesborough; its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals by George Washington Ranck, J. P. Morton & Co, 1901.  Open Library.
• The Callaway Clan. By Bessie Callaway Hoffmeyer. College Press, Collegedale, TN, 1948.  Internet Archive. 
• The Elston Family in America. by James Strode Elston. The Tuttle Co, Rutland, VT, 1942.  Internet Archive. 
• The Duncans of Bourbon County, KY by Judith Spencer Ardery. Internet Archive
• History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky. By David Lander. Regan Printing House, Chicago, IL, 1926. Internet Archive. 
• The Linville Family in America. By Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. Google Books and Internet Archive. 
• A Second Visit with the Linvilles. by Alice Eichholz. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976. Google Books. 
• Lost Souls of the Lost Township. By Paul R. Petersen & David W. Jackson. The Orderly Pack Rack, Kansas City, MO. 2011. Amazon. 
• Morgan & Strode. By Jim White. 2010. Lulu.com
• Rebeckah Boone's Bible
• Richard Callaway Family of Va. and Ky. and allied lines. By Jessie Williams Hart, 1933. Internet Archive. 
• Scholl, Sholl, Shull genealogy: the colonial branches. By John William Scholl. The Grafton Press, New York, 1930. Internet Archive. 
• Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the ST. Charles District by Lilian Hays Oliver.  Chedwato Service. 1964. Seeking My Roots.
• Tallman Family History. By G. Tallman. Van Wert, IA, 1939. Internet Archive.
• The Jenkins, Boone & Lincoln Family Records. By Warren Y. Jenkins. Canon City, CO., 1925. Internet Archives. 
• The Pioneer and the Prairie Lawyer: Boone and Lincoln Family Heritage. by Willard Mounts. Ginwill Publishing Co, Denver, Co, 1991. 
• The Old Hand Carved Walnut Box. by Jim White. Lulu.com
• The Spear and the Spindle: Ancestors of Sir Francis Bryan (d. 1550), KT. by T. A. Fuller.  Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1993. Personal library and Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo. 
• Three years with Quantrell; a true story.  As told by John McCorkle. Armstrong Herald Print, Armstrong, MO, 1914. Internet Archive. 
• White's Family & Their Kin. By Mrs. Gladys Esther White O'Neal & Elma Leota White Stoops. Paper Graphics, Garden City, KS, 1983. Personal Library or Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO. 

Links: (be sure to check out the other links on side menu)

Albert Boone, Kansas Memory

Bald Eagle Mercantile, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS. 

Ballad of Daniel Boone- Fess Parker. YouTube. 

Birth Records - Write down the birth year by day, month and year and the place where the person was born like the city, township, county, and state. Birth records can be found in adoption records, old family Bibles, church records, birth announcements, doctor records, letters, newspapers, and a hospital or state issued birth certificate.  

Our Berry Family

Walters, Sanders, Soots, Russell, Morphew, McCloud Families by Mary Anne Walters. 

Rootsweb family tree.. 

Boone Association

Boone Slick Road Association

Index to the Boone Family Collection at Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Mo.

Boone Family Association Boone Bulletin Newsletters

Boone Society

The Boone Page (Facebook)

Bryan-Morgan (blog)

Joseph Boone at the Bushong United website (Rootsweb)

Business Cards

Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records Search Engine

Plat maps at Historic Map Works

Census Records - Every ten years, the US takes census records. States and counties also sometimes take a census.  In addition to the census records, there are agricultural, mortality and slave schedules from 1850 and 1860. 

City Directories

Court Records

Crosthwaite's Family Tree/Tribal Pages

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)

Daniel Boone's Homestead (PA)

Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association (VA)

Daniel Morgan Boone’s Missing Years  (MO)

Rededication of Daniel Morgan Boone's Gravesite (NSDKC)

Boone Trees (Rootsweb index)

Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb)

A List of Children

A Reading of the Boone-Hays Cemetery (Rootsweb text)

Elmaza (Fletcher) Boone's Timeline

First Families of Kentucky

Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List 

Fort Boonesborough's Living History and Early Settlers List

A Reading of the Douglass-Grange Cemetery (Rootsweb text)

Find-a-grave

Fort Boonesborough's Early Settlers List (Goodman) 

Freedom Frontier National Heritage Area

Full Name. Do not add in a middle name if there is none listed in your primary records. Yes, some children received their mother's maiden surname as a middle name, but that doesn't mean everyone did. I received my mother's middle name as my middle name, but my mother-in-law does not have a middle name at all. Nicknames can be added in between quotation marks. My grandmother taught me to add in a woman's maiden name between parentheses, such as mine - Dolores Jean (O'Neal) Rush. It's to remind you that before a certain date, I was once single and after that date, I was married. You don't know how many times I've seen people add in a dated record with a woman's maiden surname on it after she was married on genealogical websites. 

Geni's Boonesborough's Pioneers

Hays House 1857 Restaurant, Council Grove, KS. 

Historic Map Works

Historical Marker Database

Isaac Van Bibber (Rootsweb)

Kansas Memory

Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS)

KY Kinfolk's Fort Boonesborough Early Settlers List

Kentucky Stations & Settlements

Jackson County, MO Marriage Records 1826 

The Landers (blog)

Marriage/Divorce Vital Records. 

Mattock Family Heritage Resources (Bible Records-Strode)

Military Records. Enlistment cards and pension applications.  Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database. 

Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1963

Death date/place can also be found using not only death certificates, but also using cemetery sexton's records, church records, funeral leaflets from a funeral home, obituaries or newspaper notices, old letters, stone carver's mortuary records and tombstones. 

Missouri Pioneers - 'Gone but Not Forgotten'

Nathan & Olive Boone's Homestead, 7850 N. State Hwy. V, Ash Grove, MO. 

New Santa Fe, MO Historical Society & Watt's Mill, Dallas (present day south Kansas City), Jackson County, MO. 

Free Newspaper Databases such as Chronicling America Newspapers.  

Primitive Baptist Library. (By Appointment)

Church Records - Baptism, Cookbooks, Directories, Membership, Minutes, Sunday School, and Newsletters. 

Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Independence, MO

Quaker Records. 

A Collection of Letters Written by the Scholl Family and their Kin: (1836-1897). by Isabel S. Giulvezan. St. Louis, 1959. 

Septimus Scholl Letters

Ship/Boat Passenger Lists

Social Security Card (after 14 Aug 1935)

Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Database

The State Historical Society of Missouri

    a. New Santa Fe and Dallas/Watts Mill manuscript list at the Missouri State Historical Society. 

Tax Records

Trekking the Swope Park Blue River. By Don Bradley for the Martin City Telegraph. Kansas City, Missouri. December 11, 2023 

US Federal and State Census Records

Voting Cards

Watts Burying Ground (Rootsweb)

The Watts-Hays Letters (1849-1861). 

Waldo's Santa Fe Hills: An Exclusive Indian Village with Layers of History. New Santa Fe Trailer (blog)

Will, Estate Inventory, and Probate Records. 

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If you know of any other Boone genealogy books or websites, please share it with us in the comments below. Thank you. 

Researched by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 2/28/2023