Son of Joseph M.White(1826-1864) and Laura Amanda(Smith)White Dierks(1839-1922)

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Images of Yesterday...Visions of Tomorrow
125 Years
Madison, Nebraska
1867-1992
Page 277

FRANK HOWARD WHITE FAMILY HISTORY:

Frank White was born in Will County, Illinois, on October 21, 1856. His father was a native of Massachusetts and died in Will County Illinois, at the age of 38.
His mother, a native of Vermont, remarried before coming to Madison County with her children.
Shortly after arriving in Madison County, Frank White filed a homestead in Green Garden Precinct and rapidly improved the land. His earlier years of pioneering was met with hardships and setbacks. He fought grasshoppers, prairie fires and hot winds which caused him to lose badly needed crops, but he persevered through all and was richly rewarded for his efforts. He had filed a tree claim so they would have lumber for building.
Frank White married in 1881 to Fredricka Knapp, a native of Will County, Illinois. She came to Madison County in 1871 or early 1872 with her parents, three sisters and one brother.
The newly married couple moved into a sod house that Frank White had constructed on his homestead. To them were born fifteen children: William, Clara (Johnson), George, Frank P., Emma (Streit), Oscar, Rose (Gugat), Matilda (Zessin), Roy, Pearl (Jantzen), Philip, Edward, Cora (Jantzen), Alfred and Leonard, who died in infancy. As their family grew, they soon build a wood frame house which is still standing today but is vacant.
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Frank H. White
in the Nebraska, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1855-1908
Name: Frank H. White
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marriage Age: 23
Record Type: Marriage
Birth Date: abt 1858
Birth Place: Illinois
Marriage Date: 26 Apr 1881
Marriage Place: Nebraska, USA
Marriage County Office: Madison
Father:
Joseph White
Mother:
Laura White
Spouse:
Fredericke Knapp
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Home in 1910: Green Garden, Madison, Nebraska

1930 census Madison, Madison Co.NE Frank H.White(73) and son William(1883-) and daughter Pearl White(1897-)live on the homestead, Fredericka died in 1923.