Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
25 April 1866
Edward P. Johnson - In our obituary column will be found the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward P. Johnson, who expired on the 17th inst., at his plantation in Washington County, Miss. This will be sad news to a wide circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances. Mr. Johnson was a conspicuous member of the large and influential family of Johnsons in the State of Kentucky. He was born, we believe, in Scott county in that State, and spent many of the first years of his life there. For something over thirty years he has been a planter in Mississippi, where he was distinguished for successful enterprise and a generous and elegant hospitality. He married early in life a sister of the late Robert W. [sic; should be J] Ward, by whom he raised a family of three sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter married Mr. Henry C. Erwin, a grand son of Henry Clay, but died a short time afterwards, leaving a daughter, now living on the plantation. Up to the commencement of the late war, Mr. Johnson was, in the largest sense of the terms, a prosperous and happy gentleman; but with the troubles of the country there came troubles upon him, as upon so many others. His sons were taken from home by the exigencies of the war, and in 1863 the partner of his joys and the comforter of his age died, leaving him a widower and lonely in a household so lately filled by many and glad faces. From this time his health began to fail; and though his second daughter, the wife of Mr. Fitz Lonsdale, the son of our distinguished merchant, HT Lonsdale, sought by devotion and filial duty to revive his spirits and cheer his heart, it was evident the charm of life was gone forever, and with it his hold upon this world. Since the close of the war his sons came home to him, the oldest to die and add a deeper gloom to his declining years. His closing hours wee consoled by the presence of his remaining children and their children and kindred and friends. He went in peace with all men; and though not yet having completed the full number of years allotted to the children of men, he had filled the role of husband, father, friend, neighbor and citizen as no one ever did better.
New Orleans, Louisiana
25 April 1866
Edward P. Johnson - In our obituary column will be found the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward P. Johnson, who expired on the 17th inst., at his plantation in Washington County, Miss. This will be sad news to a wide circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances. Mr. Johnson was a conspicuous member of the large and influential family of Johnsons in the State of Kentucky. He was born, we believe, in Scott county in that State, and spent many of the first years of his life there. For something over thirty years he has been a planter in Mississippi, where he was distinguished for successful enterprise and a generous and elegant hospitality. He married early in life a sister of the late Robert W. [sic; should be J] Ward, by whom he raised a family of three sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter married Mr. Henry C. Erwin, a grand son of Henry Clay, but died a short time afterwards, leaving a daughter, now living on the plantation. Up to the commencement of the late war, Mr. Johnson was, in the largest sense of the terms, a prosperous and happy gentleman; but with the troubles of the country there came troubles upon him, as upon so many others. His sons were taken from home by the exigencies of the war, and in 1863 the partner of his joys and the comforter of his age died, leaving him a widower and lonely in a household so lately filled by many and glad faces. From this time his health began to fail; and though his second daughter, the wife of Mr. Fitz Lonsdale, the son of our distinguished merchant, HT Lonsdale, sought by devotion and filial duty to revive his spirits and cheer his heart, it was evident the charm of life was gone forever, and with it his hold upon this world. Since the close of the war his sons came home to him, the oldest to die and add a deeper gloom to his declining years. His closing hours wee consoled by the presence of his remaining children and their children and kindred and friends. He went in peace with all men; and though not yet having completed the full number of years allotted to the children of men, he had filled the role of husband, father, friend, neighbor and citizen as no one ever did better.
Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
25 April 1866
Edward P. Johnson - In our obituary column will be found the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward P. Johnson, who expired on the 17th inst., at his plantation in Washington County, Miss. This will be sad news to a wide circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances. Mr. Johnson was a conspicuous member of the large and influential family of Johnsons in the State of Kentucky. He was born, we believe, in Scott county in that State, and spent many of the first years of his life there. For something over thirty years he has been a planter in Mississippi, where he was distinguished for successful enterprise and a generous and elegant hospitality. He married early in life a sister of the late Robert W. [sic; should be J] Ward, by whom he raised a family of three sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter married Mr. Henry C. Erwin, a grand son of Henry Clay, but died a short time afterwards, leaving a daughter, now living on the plantation. Up to the commencement of the late war, Mr. Johnson was, in the largest sense of the terms, a prosperous and happy gentleman; but with the troubles of the country there came troubles upon him, as upon so many others. His sons were taken from home by the exigencies of the war, and in 1863 the partner of his joys and the comforter of his age died, leaving him a widower and lonely in a household so lately filled by many and glad faces. From this time his health began to fail; and though his second daughter, the wife of Mr. Fitz Lonsdale, the son of our distinguished merchant, HT Lonsdale, sought by devotion and filial duty to revive his spirits and cheer his heart, it was evident the charm of life was gone forever, and with it his hold upon this world. Since the close of the war his sons came home to him, the oldest to die and add a deeper gloom to his declining years. His closing hours wee consoled by the presence of his remaining children and their children and kindred and friends. He went in peace with all men; and though not yet having completed the full number of years allotted to the children of men, he had filled the role of husband, father, friend, neighbor and citizen as no one ever did better.
New Orleans, Louisiana
25 April 1866
Edward P. Johnson - In our obituary column will be found the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward P. Johnson, who expired on the 17th inst., at his plantation in Washington County, Miss. This will be sad news to a wide circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances. Mr. Johnson was a conspicuous member of the large and influential family of Johnsons in the State of Kentucky. He was born, we believe, in Scott county in that State, and spent many of the first years of his life there. For something over thirty years he has been a planter in Mississippi, where he was distinguished for successful enterprise and a generous and elegant hospitality. He married early in life a sister of the late Robert W. [sic; should be J] Ward, by whom he raised a family of three sons and two daughters. His eldest daughter married Mr. Henry C. Erwin, a grand son of Henry Clay, but died a short time afterwards, leaving a daughter, now living on the plantation. Up to the commencement of the late war, Mr. Johnson was, in the largest sense of the terms, a prosperous and happy gentleman; but with the troubles of the country there came troubles upon him, as upon so many others. His sons were taken from home by the exigencies of the war, and in 1863 the partner of his joys and the comforter of his age died, leaving him a widower and lonely in a household so lately filled by many and glad faces. From this time his health began to fail; and though his second daughter, the wife of Mr. Fitz Lonsdale, the son of our distinguished merchant, HT Lonsdale, sought by devotion and filial duty to revive his spirits and cheer his heart, it was evident the charm of life was gone forever, and with it his hold upon this world. Since the close of the war his sons came home to him, the oldest to die and add a deeper gloom to his declining years. His closing hours wee consoled by the presence of his remaining children and their children and kindred and friends. He went in peace with all men; and though not yet having completed the full number of years allotted to the children of men, he had filled the role of husband, father, friend, neighbor and citizen as no one ever did better.
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