When Louisa Anna Willis was born on 1 April 1871, in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States, her father, William Buck Willis, was 36 and her mother, Rachel Abigail Woolsey, was 20. She married Lewis Cass White on 12 August 1889, in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Elbert, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died in 1966, at the age of 95.