... Elizabeth was to have three more children, all boys. Her first child born after she married Abednigo White was Shadrack White, born 25 Oct. 1790, in Fairfax County, Virginia. He died January, 1858 in Tazewell County, Virginia. He died with no legal heirs but tradition dictates that he had an illegitimate, son, Augustus "Gus" White. ...
... Elizabeth Ratcliff Steele (White) died in Tazewell County Virginia on 3 June 1814. (From Bible of George and Rosannah Steele) Elizabeth is probably buried in what was at one time a cemetery, but is now a pasture. There are no stones in the "cemetery" and the only indication that it was ever a cemetery is the fact that the tombstone of her son Shadrack White was still very visible when we went there in 1984. There is (or was) a lone tree standing on a knoll with nothing but pasture around it. The trunk of the tree is hollow and when we looked inside the tree trunk, lo and behold there was the tombstone of Elizabeth's son, Shadrack White. The tombstone was in very good condition and the dates were very clear. Apparently the tree grew around the stone after Shadrack was buried. We knew that there was a stone inside the tree before we went there, otherwise one would never expect to see such an unusual sight. It was most interesting; appearing as a sentinel surrounding and protecting the remains of Shadrack. ...
... After the death of Abednigo White, Shadrack bought back the land where his parents had lived. It is believed by this writer that the remains of Elizabeth and her second husband Abednigo White are buried in that place. The eighty one year old Abednigo remarried in July, 1815 and lived until late 1819 or early 1820. This land, according to J. . Robert Wysor, who took us there, is approximately fifteen miles from the Smyth County line and the North Fork of the Holston, where George Steele had a land survey in 1774.
