In the 1900 Nebraska census, Olive was living with her children Sissie, Lillian, Grace, and Carol, in Crete, Nebraska. She was employed by the Crete Mills. There is no husband listed.
Olive Johnson White was the founder of Whitehall, which was until recently operating as the Nebraska Center for Children and Youth. I have a picture of the building, from Lois Lindenmayer's collection.
Born the third child of Andrew and Mary Lytle Johnson in Thorndyke Waldo Co., Maine, Olive Ann taught school in Albany, Green Co., Wisconsin at age of 16 and later taught at Geneseo, Henry Co.,Illinois where she lived with her married sister, Ellen Johnson Throop. She married Charles Clark White on January 19, 1868 and lived in a log house on Oak Creek a half mile south of the present townsite of Raymond, Lancaster Co., Nebraska. The Luke Lavendar cabin in which they were married was the oldest building in Lincoln at the corner of 14th and O streets. It was a double ceremony, with CC Whites sister Mary and Willis Richardson.
Olive Ann Johnson White was the center figure in an historical article on the Johnson family reunion, published in the Sunday Journal and Star, Section C, Lincoln NE, May 28, 1933. She was 85 in February and both Charles White and Clarence Johnson were over 81 and resided in Valparaiso. The family home on Oak Creek was removed (burned down) in 1929, so the reunion was held on the 160 acre homestead of Henry Throop, now called Camp Kinnikinnik, and the summer home of Mrs. Nellie Throop Magee, daughter of Ellen Marie Johnson Throop and Henry Throop. Because her trip from Geneseo Illinois with her sister and the Throops accompanied by brother Rodney Johnson ended at the Oak Creek homestead on May 31, 1866, the Johnson reunion has always been held on or near Memorial day.
130Wyuka burial permit. Died June 17, 1935, Born Feb. 2 1848 age 87 years, 4 months 15 days in Pacific Palisades California. Cause of death: cerebral embolism.
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Mrs. Olive Johnson White.
DAR ID Number: 27710
Born in Freedom, Maine.
Wife of Charles C. White.
Descendant of Benjamin Johnson.
Daughter of Andrew Johnson and Mary Ann Litle, his wife.
Granddaughter of Benjamin Johnson and Priscilla Robinson, his wife, m. 1803.
Benjamin Johnson, (1763-1849), was placed on the pension roll of Maine for three years' actual service of
private in the New Hampshire Line. He was born in New Hampshire; died in Knox, Me.