Louisa's grave is unmarked. Her burial permit is posted to the left.

Louisa was christened in March of 1818. She was one of about ten children born to Charles and Ann (Hemingway) Dorr of Grantham, England. Her father was a respected draper (cloth merchant).

In 1839 she married Edward Chambers White, a prosperous tenant farmer in the neighboring town of Silk Willoughby. Edward was born about 1813, and was the son of William White. and his wife Ann Chambers.

Census records indicated that Edward and Louisa's household included house servants, and that Edward employed farm hands.

During her marriage to Edward, Louisa had eight children; the last died as an infant in 1851. That year the marriage broke up and Louisa left the family. (The details of events which lead to this were included in an 1851 newspaper article.) Louisa immigrated to the United States and went to live in Whiteside County, Illinois, where two close relatives had previously settled.

In 1854, in Lyndon, Illinois, Louisa remarried to William Brown, an apparent widower with an older son. Louisa had two sons with William, though only the son Frederick reached maturity.

Family lore says that in 1863 Edward White, possibly his second wife, and three of his older daughters immigrated to the United States. He left his family in a New York hotel and went to Georgia with a carpetbag of cash, planning to buy a plantation. He was never heard from again, and was presumed dead. His burial location is unknown.

The White daughters, Jennie, Laura and Annie, ages about 22 to 18, then traveled to Illinois to reunite with their mother, who they had likely not seen for at least a decade. There, the three daughters married. In July 1864 Jennie married a Scottish tailor named Nathaniel Cochran. Laura and Annie married brothers Delancy Kenyon and Elliott Kenyon, both Civil War soldiers and farmers.

Sometime in the 1880s Louisa and most of her extended family in Illinois moved to Los Angeles County, California. settling in Pomona and Pasadena. These family members included her son Frederick Brown, and the families of Jennie and Laura. Annie, then divorced, also came. In addition, Louisa's son Edward Charles White immigrated from England in 1888 and settled in Pasadena, though he died the following year of tuberculosis. Jennie died in 1890.

Louisa's daughter Laura, along with her son-in-law Delancy and Laura's children moved to Tacoma, Washington about 1890.

At the time of her death, her son Fred. A. Browne was still living in Pomona, and her daughter Annie Kenyon still lived in Los Angeles County.

Louisa is not buried with any family members. The plot includes one other burial, a non-relative named Mary Trusdell who died in 1903. The cemetery office says the plot was purchased by "S. G." Perhaps this was a mistranscription for the undertaker J. G. Kirby. Her burial record was signed by Dr. E.L. Burdick," who was the long-time overseer of the highly respected county poor farm in Downey.

Note: It appears that Louisa's son Fred used the spelling variation of "Browne." However the family name was spelled "Brown" in all Illinois records, including when Louisa married William Brown.