11. REBECCA "BECKY"³ JOHNSTON (LINDSEY², LEWIS¹) (#742) was born in Butts County, Georgia in 1828. REBECCA died April 29, 1907 in Delta County, Texas, at 78 years of age. Her body was interred in Cooper, Delta County, Texas, Oak Lawn Cemetery.

She married JAMES BENJAMIN WHITE in Itawamba County, Mississippi, June 16, 1851. (JAMES BENJAMIN WHITE is #743.) JAMES was born in 1825. JAMES died December 5, 1874 in Lamar County (now Delta County), Texas, at 49 years of age. His body was interred in Cooper, Delta County, Texas, Oak Lawn Cemetery.

REBECCA "BECKY" JOHNSTON and JAMES BENJAMIN WHITE had the following family:

55i. MARY CATHERINE "KATE" WHITE (#2068) was born on unknown date in Mississippi. She married J. L. JOHNSTON (#2069) (probably unrelated to us) in October 1870.

ii.. ANNA ELIZABETH WHITE (#2070) was born on unknown date in Mississippi. She married T. M. DYE (#2071) in December 1875, probably in Lamar/Delta County, Texas.

iii.. BENJAMIN F. WHITE (#2074) was born in Mississippi in 1855. (from 1880 census of Delta County.)

iv. LAURA WHITE (#2075) was born in Mississippi in 1859. (1880 census/Delta County.)

v. ELLA MALISSA WHITE (#2072) born on unknown date in Mississippi married J. T. PERKINS (#2073) in 1878, probably in Delta County, Texas.

vi. ETHEL J. WHITE (#2076) was born in Mississippi in 1864. (1880 census/Delta Co.)

vii. JAMES WILLIAM WHITE (#2077) was born in 1868, in Mississippi or Lamar County, Texas. (1880 census/Delta Co.)

  viii. JOHN DUNCAN⁴ WHITE (#744) was born in Lamar (now Delta) County, Texas in 1869. JOHN died in 1929 at 60 years of age. He married VIRGINIA LENA FITE. (VIRGINIA LENA FITE is #745.) VIRGINIA was born in 1877. VIRGINIA died in 1961 at 84 years of age.

ix. JOHN WHITE (#2078) was born in 1870 probably in Lamar County, Texas.

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