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Note: Birth: Oct. 28, 1806 Northumberland County Virginia, USA Death: Feb. 24, 1852 Huntsville Madison County Alabama, USA The following item appeared in The Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society Vol. XIV - 1977, page 92: "In the publication of the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society called 'Valley Leaves', Vol. 11, No. 2, Dec. 1976, page 85, is the following: David M. Grimwood White Cemetery (aka Smither Family Cemetery) Location: Section 3-3S-1W. These two stones were found approximately 1/2 mile northeast of the Pulaski and Winchester Road intersection by the edge of a forest and at the foot of Wade Mountain. They had not been at that location the day before. How they got there and who put them there is unknown. WHITE,CATHARINE � In Memory of Catharine, wife of F. B. White, daughter of Ewel & Duanna Alexander, born in Northumberland Cty. Va. October 28, 1806, died in Madison Cty. Ala. Feb. 24,1852. Note: Catharine was the wife of Fleming Bates White: Fenny White-M-Catharine Alexander April 29, 1829. WHITE, FLEMING BATES-In Memory of Fleming Bates White, Born in 1802, Died June 26, 1882." Fleming Bates White and Catharine Alexander White were the grandparents of my mother, Duanna White Grimwood (Dec. 29, 1882 - Oct. 9, 1977). My mother remembered being told that her grandfather, Fleming Bates White, migrated from Northumberland County, Virginia, with Samuel "Uncle Sammy" Smither whom she believed was actually an older half-brother. Smither owned land on Pulaski Pike (Madison County, Ala.) between Wade Mountain and King Mountain. As a boy, knew Wade Mountain as Smither Mountain. As a boy, I remember seeing the home of "Uncle Sammy," which was located just east of the intersection of Kelly Cemetery Road with Pulaski Pike. The home was located near a large limestone sink which, according to Mother, at one time had a good spring at its bottom. With the expansion of Huntsville, new homes have been built on the site of the old homestead. An old cemetery just west of the home site contained the graves of Fleming Bates White and Catharine Alexander White. Others, perhaps Samuel Smither and his wife, Elizabeth, were buried there, but I am not sure.
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