sentences:  The first white settlers came to White County between 1807 and 1809.The first settlements were near the Little Wabash River and Big Prairie, one of the numerous prairies in the county.These families—Hanna, Land, Hay, Williams, Calvert, Ratcliff, Holderby, Robinson, Stewart, among others—typically had spent time in the Carolinas, Kentucky or Tennessee before moving into Illinois, and most were of Scots-Irish descent.