obtained illegally from tribal resources. Legacy and honors In 1907, Johnston County, Oklahoma was named after him. In 1931 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. His residence, known as the White House of the Chickasaw, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1997 Johnston was posthumously inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame. The following memorial to Douglas H. Johnston was published in the Chronicles of Oklahoma: Personal life In 1881, he married Nellie Bynum, a Chickasaw woman of partial European descent. They had two sons and one daughter together. Nellie died of tuberculosis in 1886. A few years later, in 1889 Johnston married Lorena Elizabeth "Betty" Harper, also of Chickasaw/European ancestry. They had a daughter together, Wahneta (sometimes recorded as "Juanita") Elizabeth Johnston. Johnston was an uncle of Chickasaw performer Te Ata Fisher. Douglas Johnston died on June 28, 1939. He was buried in Tishomingo City Cemetery in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, the historic capital of the Chickasaw Nation. Notes References Sources O'Beirne, Harry F.; Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory, Choctaw and Chickasaw (1891). O'Beirne, Harry F., and E. S. O'Beirne; The Indian Territory, Its Chiefs, Legislators and Leading Men (1892). Cornish, Melvin; "Douglas H. Johnston", Chronicles of Oklahoma v18 (1940) #1 (March). Lovegrove, Michael. A Nation in Transition: Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaws, 1898-1939, Chickasaw Nation, 2009 Parke, Franke E, with J.W. LeFlore; "Some of Our Choctaw Neighborhood Schools", Chronicles of Oklahoma v4 (1926) #2 (June). Williams, Chad; "Johnston, Douglas Henry (1856-1939)", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture External links Governor Douglas H. Johnston Profile & Videos - Chickasaw.TV 1856 births 1939 deaths 19th-century Native Americans 20th-century Native Americans Governors of the Chickasaw Nation People from Le Flore County, Oklahoma People of Indian Territory Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma