I am looking for information on Ida Belle White, Mother Susie and Father John, Grandfather George. Sometime in the 60’s the family was contacted for a possible Indian land grant in the state of Missouri. A few of the areas they have live in were Clay County, Dade County, Salt River Township, Shelbina (Shelby County)
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Ida was the daughter of John B. White (1852 MO – 1885 MO) and Susan Williamson (1861 MO – 1929 MO). I see one unsourced tree on Ancestry has John listed as “1/2 Native American” with his father listed as George White and a mother without a full name. However, you can find John listed with his parents on the 1860 Missouri Census, and a marriage record from 1879 in Shelby County, MO.
John’s father was George White, born in 1818 in Kentucky. John’s mother was Sarah Jane Bates, born in Kentucky about 1819. This couple was married in Monroe, MO, in 1843.
Her grave (+ parent’s names) can be found here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=WHIT&GSfn=S&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=26&GScntry=4&GSsr=281&GRid=80840335&
George’s parents were Jesse and Martha White, who were of White settlers stock, having moved from MD/VA into Kentucky in the early 1800s, and then into MO by the late 1830s. Jesse was an Indian fighter and apparently had some form of what might be called PTSD today. He is mentioned in this history or Monroe and Shelby Counties published in 1884.
(Monroe County, Missouri)
EARLY SETTLERS
“There were J. M. Dean, Caleb Wood, J. T. Martin, W. A. Saunders, Albert Saunders, William Henniger,W. T. Adams, Preston Adams, Fountain C. Sparks, James T. Hart, Ignatius Coombs, Clifton G. Maupin, David Henniger, T. P. Sharp, Robert Price, James Cox, Cornelius Edwards, Russell Moss, James Ragland, D. M. Dulaney, Willis Buford, Milton Crutcher, Charles Crutcher, Owen Gerry, Gabriel Penn, A. White, John Henniger, Hiram Dooley, Calvin Shearer, Francis Harrison, Angel Gillespie, Gabriel Jones, Edward Shropshire, Barney Worland and Jesse White.
Mr. White was in the Indian War, and while fighting was separated from his companions and cut off from a bridge. He ran up the banks of the stream 12 miles before he could cross, and then returned the same distance to where his comrades were. The Indians chased him, and when they would get near enough to him he would present his gun and they would hide behind trees, he doing the same thing when they would attempt to shoot at him. Mr. White ever afterwards seemed to be upon the alert, and would constantly look about him, especially when traveling. His neighbors say that so vigilant was he that no man could slip up on him in the woods.”
Source: HISTORY OF MONROE AND SHELBY COUNTIES, MISSOURI (1884)
https://archive.org/stream/historyofmonroes00nati/historyofmonroes00nati_djvu.txt
Monroe County, Missouri:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_County,_Missouri
The land cessions in Missouri took place between non-Cherokee tribes and the US government in the early 1800s. This is as follows:
50 – Sauk and Fox, 1804
67/69 – Osage, 1808
123 – Osage, 1825
126 – Shawnee, 1825
150 – Delaware, 1829
151 – Sauk and Fox, 1830
179 – Kickapoo, 1832
http://www.tngenweb.org/cessions/ms-west/ilcmap37.jpg
http://www.tngenweb.org/cessions/ms-west/ilcmap38.jpg
All tribes were kicked out of the state as land was ceded and White settlers moved in. Land grants that were given to individuals from the point of Native American land cession went to American (e.g. White) people. Tribal land rights were extinguished in the state according to the timeline listed above.