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Joseph White is a native of Knox County, Tenn., born in 1825, and the son of Abraham D. and Elizabeth (Douglas) White. The paternal grandfather, Joseph White, was a North Carolinian, and served in the Revolutionary War under Col. Cleveland. He was a prisoner, and kept in his barn, but got away from Gen. Ferguson, of the English army, the morning of the same day, and informed his comrades before the British attacked them. He was an extensive planter, and owned a large number of slaves. Gen. Ferguson made his headquarters at his house, dying there from wounds received at the battle of King’s Mountain. After the war Joseph White located in Knox County, Tenn., where he was killed by the kick of a horse. Benjamin White, the noted hunter and Indian scout, was his brother. Abraham D. White was born in North Carolina in 1790, and went to Tennessee with his father in 1802, where he received a good education in a college in Maryville. He spent a number of years engaged in farming and teaching school, and in 1820 married and settled on a farm, moving to Missouri in 1840, where he followed the same occupations. In 1862 he moved to Texas, where he remained until the close of the late Civil War, and then returned to Missouri, locating in Morgan County. His wife was born and reared in Knox County, Tenn., and was a daughter of Thomas Douglas, who was a farmer, miller and boat-builder, of Knoxville. Her brother, Kelsey H. Douglas, was one of the early settlers of Texas, and was a general in the Texas Rebellion, being the first President elected in the Texas Republic. He was one of the wealthy men of the State, and left a large estate at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. White became the parents of the following family: Nancy H., wife of T. I. Murray; Elizabeth, Isabella, Martha and Joseph B. The mother died in 1837, and the father afterward married (in 1846) Jane Austin. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and died at the home of his son, Joseph, in 1868. The latter was educated at the Forest Hilll Academy, at Athens, Tenn., and was reared to manhood on his father’s farm. In 1848 he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Martha C. Daniels, who was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1830, and who was taken to Missouri by her parents in 1839. The following are the children born to her union with Mr. J. B. White: Hugh L., Julius E., Joseph A., Monroe, Elanora (wife of N. P. Williams), Sophronia (wife of George Son), and Lew, his youngest daughter. After his marriage Mr. J. B. White located on the Sioux River, in Greene County, Mo., and was engaged in farming and general merchandising, he was also postmaster of Richland for six years. When the war broke out he went to Texas, and traded his slaves for land, and in 1862 entered the Confederate service as a post guard, and was first lieutenant of his company. When the war closed he returned to Missouri, and located on a farm in Morgan County, but removed to Miller County in 1869, where he was engaged in merchandising until 1883. His health began failing him at this time, and he retired to his farm, and two years later came to Washington County, Ark., where he has a fine farm of 205 acres near Farmington. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and is a Royal Arch Mason.