Margaret Johnson White (1864-1915)

WHITE, JOHNSON, CHITTY, LOBAUGH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/9/2010 at 22:55:51

From Nevada Representative June 15, 1915

Burial of Mrs. Margaret White

Mrs. Margaret White, whose death at Correctionville on Thursday las was noted in our last issue was buried in the Nevada cemetery Friday evening, services at the grave being conducted by Rev. McDade of the Methodist church.

Margaret Johnson was born at Plattsburg, New York, February 12, 1823, was married to Daniel G. White at Rosendale, Wisconsin in 1864, and died at Correctionville, Iowa, June 10, 1915 aged 82 years, 3 months and 29 days. The earlier years of her married life were spent at Meridian, Illinois; but in 1880 Mr. and Mrs. White moved to Story county and settled on what is now the Lobaugh farm about three and a half miles east and north of Nevada. There Mr. White died only the next year, and thus Mrs. White was left the head of afamily which included five step-children and three children of her own. To the complicated responsibilities and duties thus incumbent upon her she was singularly faithful and she met them with marked capability, and before she had finished rearing these two families she began the performance of a similar task for orphan grand-children.

Her step-children were Reuben, Elwood, Lottie, Jacob and Carrie, all of whom survive except the last, who married Elzy Chitty and died whle yet a young woman, leaving to the care of her step-mother her two children, Jessie and Clyde. Mrs. White's own children were: Loring, May and Dg, the last of whom only survives; but the former left a daughter Erma, who also found her home under the grandmotherly roof. Such was the family over which Mrs. White presided from her widowhood in 1881 to ther removal from the farm in 1892 and then for some twenty years more in Nevada until 1913, when she went with Dr. Clyde Chitty, one of her foster children, to the home he was establishing at Correctionville.

Surely Mrs. White's life was one of very exceptional usefulness, and she at least had the reward of a most hearty appreciation. She was on e of the women who have glorified the responsibilities of motherhood and from whom radiated always kindly feeling the best influence.