WPA - White Family Burial Ground, Macoupin
County IL
A Transcription of the WPA Record in Macoupin
County Archives, Carlinville, Illinois
by Mary McKenzie
WHITE FAMILY BURIAL GROUND
Bird
Township
Macoupin County
SE 1/4 SW 1/4
Section 20-10-8
Illinois
The Macoupin County Archives has, in its files, indexes/listings of
many veterans buried in numerous Macoupin County
cemeteries. The WPA workers compiled the indexes during the
Depression Era. The White cemetery listing is found in Box 2 at
the Macoupin County Archives. While we found some information on
the White cemetery, there was no listing of veterans in this
cemetery. We are including the history and other information
compiled for this cemetery that we found.
This cemetery is situated in Mr. Thomas GLEASON'S Pasture - Sec. 20
Township 10 Range 8 SE of SW Quarter. It is south of cement road
Route 108 (80 feet south of the road). There are six graves, all
of one family (the WHITE Family).
They are all in one straight row between two trees - a large hickory
tree and at the north side and a large elm tree at the south side.
To get to these graves from Carlinville, Ill. one travels west on hard
road No. 108, 8 miles to Mr. Thomas GLEASON'S farm. To get to these
graves from Enos Station one travels 1 mile south on an oiled road to
Mr. Thomas GLEASON'S farm.
There is no fence around them and the slab stones are all half buried
in the ground - all down flat. The grown people and their
children:
Thomas WHITE Jr. Died 1864. Born 1840.
Three small children, all boys: Henry, George and one with no
name on it (just - Infant son).
Mr. and Mrs. WHITE are the grandparents of Mrs. Sarah WATERS, mother of
Mr. Enos WATERS (Manager of Federal Farm Loan).
Uncle, Thomas WHITE, at time of Civil War was a soldier. He died
in a soldier's hospital at Cairo, Ill. He had a brother, Joseph,
also a soldier, died and was buried in Texas. Thomas WHITE is
buried in this little cemetery. His father went to Cairo where he
died and brought him home and buried him in this little cemetery.
Information obtained from Mrs. Sarah WATERS, granddaughter of Mr.
Thomas WHITE. Mrs. WATERS will try to get me the papers of her
uncle's war history.