[2] Saint Catharine is located approximately four miles east of Brookfield on Missouri Route 11 in the Yellow Creek Township.

Both were born in England, and, with locals Caleb S. & Mary Farmer, joined in buying 160 acres, which was filed and recorded November 17, 1855.

"[5][6] A post office named Saint Catharine was established in 1859,[7] the same year that James Early White--born in 1804 near Dyke in Greene County, Virginia and closer to Nortonsville--obtained land patent no.13685 (signed October 10 by White and President James Buchanan) for forty acres on which he established a tobacco farm five miles north of St. Catharine.

[9] His oldest brother Crenshaw White had established himself there, in adjacent Chariton County, more than a quarter century earlier, in 1825, not but five years after Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state.

Another older brother, Anderson White, remained in the Central Piedmont, on a tobacco plantation near the Blue Ridge in Free Union in Albemarle County.

Two daughters, Matilda Elizabeth Kelley and Cynthia Ann Black, and son Wesley Anderson White, remained and raised families.

[10] Two of their daughters married and died young: one of a self-induced abortion, the other of syphilis in the Illinois State Asylum and Hospital for the Insane.

There were two Confederate raids made on St. Catharine: the first in August 1862 when seven raiders "robbed F. S. Black of about $1,000 in money and goods; W. T. Snow, of about $400; and the Salisbury Brothers and others suffered to a limited extent" though no one was hurt.

Clifton D. Holtzclaw), robbed generally, and took two men--one of whom was paroled, the other shot and buried by "citizens at the Corinth cemetery, in Chariton county."

[9] A post office was established at Hybrid, Missouri, north of St. Catharine and closer to the White homestead, near the Little Yellow Creek, but closed in 1905.

“Black Jack” Pershing, Walt Disney, Omar Bradley and Mark Twain lived along the route, not to mention Jesse James.