White Cemetery - Adair County

 

Cemetery Name: WHITE            Status:  Inactive (last known burial 1978)                           Location: Willis family property, Sulphur Creek Road, eastern Adair County, 1.2 miles off Rt. 76.

Recorded by: Michael C. Watson & Jim Garner 

Date recorded: 20 July 1991                Updated & corrected: 20 September 2003 by Jim Garner

ossw = “on same stone with”                Information in [ ]s: from sources other than the markers.

(An earlier version appeared in the Spring, 1992 {Vol. 6, Issue No. 1} Adair County Review, pp. 8-9.)    

  

Row #1

unmarked  fieldstone

Barrett, Willie K.        27 Dec 1885 - 13 April 1919

   “   , Lonzo B.            7 Sept 1885 - 14 April 1970

unmarked  fieldstone            --

Barrett, Inis                  3 June 1917 - 20 Feb 1918

unmarked  fieldstone            --

Barrett, Thomas            1860 - 1923 ossw Missouri E. [Thomas d. 5 June 1923]

   “   , Missouri E.         1863 - 1928 ossw Thomas

   “   , Lou Cindy   1890 - 1907

   “   , J. T.                    23 Nov 1880 - 21 Feb 1903

unmarked  fieldstone            --

Barrett, Anna Lee      15 Sept 1911 - 26 Dec 1911

   “   , James C.            25 Feb 1915 - 24 Sept 1977; military footmarker: "Cpl. US Marine                                     Corps WW II”; same birth and death date as headstone.

   “   , Lonzo N.            27             April 1892 - 11 Oct 1978

unmarked  fieldstone            --

Wheat, Amanda Belle            16 Jan 1892 - 7 April 1939  [This is different grave marker from that recorded 14 Feb 1987. Information recorded from old marker: Amanda Wheat 15 Feb 1890 ‑ 7 April 1940, "wife of G. T. Morris". D/o Levi & Sarah F. Wheat; she m. 1st James Rainwater; m. 2nd George T. Morris. 1900 census indicates she was born February, 1892.]

 

Row #2

Wheat, Bobby Ray       1938-1939 (Marker installed after 20 July 1991.) [S/o Elby & Goldia.]

   “   , Goldia Sullivan             1906-1938            (Marker installed after 20 July 1991.) [Wife of Elby Wheat.]

   “   , “infant daughter”       1929-1929 (Marker installed after 20 July 1991.) [Child of Elby & Goldia. KY vital records indicate a Lee Wheat b. & d. 12 Feb. 1929, mother maiden name Golda Sullivan.]

Roberts, Willie Mae     28 May 1923 - 30 June 1923

Barrett, Dr. W. C.        28 May 1839 - 4 Sept 1934 ossw Margrett

   “   , Margrett            20 May 1844 - 27 Jan 1925 ossw Dr. W. C.

unmarked  fieldstone            –

Wheat, Mary E.      5 Feb 1883 - 21 April 1892 [Probably d/o Levi & Sarah F. Wheat.]

   “   , Levi                 13 June 1860 - 23 June 1923 [Son of Griffin B. Wheat & Mary White.]

   “   , Sarrah F.         1851 - 1921 [Sarah F. Cravens, w/o Levi Wheat; d. 29 March 1921.]

McQueary, Nannie E.         2 April 1890 - 22 July 1935 [D/o Levi & Sarah Cravens Wheat.]

?(LS) "Died MA__"          rough fieldstone, worn and flaked

 

Row #3

3 unmarked  fieldstones         --

Humphreys, Robert         28 May 1850 - 14 April 1924


_________, ______         Marked grave, but nearly all of the upright is missing; appears to be the                            same/similar style marker as Robert Humphreys'; no info on the                                         remaining part, just the epitaph "Gone but not forgotten." 

Wheat, Vernon O.     18 August 1870 - 6 May 1951 ossw Bettie R. [S/o Griffin & Mary.]

   “   , Bettie R.         31 Dec 1879 - 17 July 1964 ossw Vernon O. [mdn. name Humphreys.]

   “   , Lucy                17 Feb 1864 - 23 June 1935 "wife of W.H." [2nd wife of Wm. H.]

   “   , Robert B.      5 June 1903 - 8 Jan 1929 [Son of Wm. H. & Fannie W. Wheat.]

   “   , Wm. Henderson         22 August 1867 - 9 Sept 1946 ossw Fannie W. [S/o Griffin & Mary.]

   “   , Fannie W.    6 Dec 1873 - 21 Sept 1903 ossw Wm. H. [1st wife of Wm. H.]

   “   , H. B.               1 August 1900 - 12 July 1901 [Henry Buford, s/o Wm. H. & Fannie.]

   “   , D. B.               21 August 1864 - 17 Oct 1885 [S/o Griffin B. Wheat & Mary Wheat.]

   “   , G. B.               9 April 1822 - 29 Nov 1901 ossw M. M. [Griffin Buford Wheat]

   “   , M. M.             27 Oct 1832 - 26 March 1880 ossw G. B. [Mary M. (White) Wheat]

2 unmarked  fieldstones          --

White, D. B.              3 Oct 1854 - 11 March 1926 ossw Mary F.

   “   , Mary F.           27 Nov 1854 - 18 Sept 1888 ossw D. B.

unmarked  fieldstone         --

Montgomery, Dewey         26 June 1900 - 26 June 1975 (military marker)

 

Row #4

Grant, Effie O.           6 Jan 1902 - 15 May 1926 "wife of Herbert"

   “   , Rolin                born & died 14 May 1926 "son of H. & E."

White, C. A.             1 Sept 1875 - 9 Nov 1953 [Cassie A.]

   “   , D. F.               30 Nov 1873 - 5 Dec 1935

   “   , Doctor             5 May 1918 - 24 June 1919 "son of D. F. & C. E."

   “   , W. G.              29 March 1850 - 8 Jan 1929

   “   , Martha B.      20 Nov 1859 - 26 March 1918

6 unmarked  fieldstones         --

Montgomery, Sarah M.          1890 - 1941

unmarked  fieldstone         –

Montgomery, L. B.    1868 - 1933

 

Row #5

Biggerstaff, Robert Dan             23 Dec 1950 "son of Lucille and Robert"

Tarter, Clifton               18 March 1931 - 20 March 1931

   “   , Naomi J.            16 July 1936 - 2 Nov 1936

   “   , Nannie L. Wheat             1 Oct 1902 - 22 Nov 1949 [D/o Vernon O. and Bettie Wheat.]

Blair, Emily                   "Died 23 April 1927"

3 unmarked  fieldstones        –

Jones, Charles              1753 - 1840 "Revolutionary Soldier" ossw Frances

[  “  ], Frances Thorpe             1763 - (death date not given)  ossw Charles

 

Row #6 (irregularly placed grave markers; not an actual row)

3 unmarked  fieldstones            --

White, G. T.                 "Co A 13th KY CAV" (no dates)

   “   , James G.            8 Jan 1837 - 29 Jan 1877

4 unmarked  fieldstones            --

Goodin, Lee                 2 Nov 1903 - 2 Nov 1903