James H. White

Concordia, the name this cemetery carries, was first the name of Hugh Stephenson's community. Stephenson, a Kentucky-born trapper, came through the El Paso area with a wagon train in 1824 and may have been the first Anglo-American there. In 1828 he married Juana María Ascárate, daughter of a wealthy El Paso del Norte merchant. In 1844 he settled land south of Ponce de León's grant and called it Concordia, after the Missouri town where he grew up. The army camped there as Camp Concordia from 1867 until 1869, when the post again became Fort Bliss.

What the plaque says

James H. White (Feb. 15, 1847 - Aug. 19, 1907) Virginia native James Harrison White came to El Paso in 1869 after serving with the Confederacy in the Civil War. In the 1870s he saw service in the Mexican army, the U. S. Army, and as U. S. Marshal of Las Cruces, New Mexico. As a civic leader and law official, he played a role in El Paso's growth from a small border town to a modern city. Offices held included sheriff and tax collector, chief of police and vice president of the El Paso Street Railway Company. A Mason, Shriner and Knight Templar, white married Barbara Dupper, and they were the parents of one child. (1967, 2001) ORIGINAL (1967) TEXT: (Feb. 15, 1847 - Aug. 23, 1907) Soldier, frontiersman, public official, civic leader. Born in Portsmouth, VA.; came to Texas in 1866; in 1861-1872, fought for three nations: the Confederacy, the United States, and Mexico. U.S. Marshal, 1879; inspector of customs, 1881; sheriff, El Paso County, 1883-1892; El Paso chief of police, 1901-1903. Worked in mining and for railways. A Mason, Shriner, and Knight Templar. Married Barbara Dupper. Had one child, James C. White. Recorded 1967

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chamizal National Memorial — 1.0 mi
  A park on land the Rio Grande once put in dispute, where a century-old border quarrel between the United States and Mexico was settled by treaty and a new concrete channel.
• Magoffin Home State Historic Site — 2.2 mi
  A U-shaped adobe of the 1870s in central El Paso that joins Mexican building to an Anglo plan, closed for restoration through 2027 while its visitor center stays open.
• Ysleta Mission (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur) — 9.3 mi
  The Tigua mission church at Ysleta, rebuilt in 1908 around the walls, bell and Santo Entierro that came through fire, its interior painted with rain clouds and corn.
• Tigua Indian Cultural Center, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo — 10 mi
  The cultural center of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, the Tigua nation that has lived in the Mission Valley of El Paso since 1682 and keeps its own history here.

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