MRS. W. W. JOHNSON'S DEATH
Her Long Illness Ended After a Mistake in Her Medicine
Mrs. Agnes L. Johnson, wife of W. W. Johnson, died suddenly this morning at her home, 236 East Vermont street. She had been for a long time a sufferer from asthma and heart disease. The physicians have warned the family that she might die suddenly from these causes. The husband and five [of seven] grown children have been constant in their attentions and some of them have always been within easy call of her bedside. The sick woman has required a stimulant when the attacks of her diseases came on. This morning, at 4 o'clock in a paroxysm of choking, she called for whisky, which was kept close by in readiness. Mr. Johnson sprang to the table and picked up what he supposed was the whisky. Pouring out a spoonful, he handed it hastily to his wife. She swallowed it and sank back on the pillow exclaiming, "Carbolic acid." She became insensible immediately and died before a physician could reach the house. In his haste Mr. Johnson had poured from the bottle of acid instead of the whisky. Dr. Frank Morrison says that death doubtless was caused by the heart disease. He had frequently been hurriedly summoned at night. The deceased woman was the mother of C. D. Johnson, the [court] stenographer. Her husband is a well-known member of the Typographical Union."
(Source: The Indianapolis News, Saturday 22 September 1894, page 6)
Her Long Illness Ended After a Mistake in Her Medicine
Mrs. Agnes L. Johnson, wife of W. W. Johnson, died suddenly this morning at her home, 236 East Vermont street. She had been for a long time a sufferer from asthma and heart disease. The physicians have warned the family that she might die suddenly from these causes. The husband and five [of seven] grown children have been constant in their attentions and some of them have always been within easy call of her bedside. The sick woman has required a stimulant when the attacks of her diseases came on. This morning, at 4 o'clock in a paroxysm of choking, she called for whisky, which was kept close by in readiness. Mr. Johnson sprang to the table and picked up what he supposed was the whisky. Pouring out a spoonful, he handed it hastily to his wife. She swallowed it and sank back on the pillow exclaiming, "Carbolic acid." She became insensible immediately and died before a physician could reach the house. In his haste Mr. Johnson had poured from the bottle of acid instead of the whisky. Dr. Frank Morrison says that death doubtless was caused by the heart disease. He had frequently been hurriedly summoned at night. The deceased woman was the mother of C. D. Johnson, the [court] stenographer. Her husband is a well-known member of the Typographical Union."
(Source: The Indianapolis News, Saturday 22 September 1894, page 6)
MRS. W. W. JOHNSON'S DEATH
Her Long Illness Ended After a Mistake in Her Medicine
Mrs. Agnes L. Johnson, wife of W. W. Johnson, died suddenly this morning at her home, 236 East Vermont street. She had been for a long time a sufferer from asthma and heart disease. The physicians have warned the family that she might die suddenly from these causes. The husband and five [of seven] grown children have been constant in their attentions and some of them have always been within easy call of her bedside. The sick woman has required a stimulant when the attacks of her diseases came on. This morning, at 4 o'clock in a paroxysm of choking, she called for whisky, which was kept close by in readiness. Mr. Johnson sprang to the table and picked up what he supposed was the whisky. Pouring out a spoonful, he handed it hastily to his wife. She swallowed it and sank back on the pillow exclaiming, "Carbolic acid." She became insensible immediately and died before a physician could reach the house. In his haste Mr. Johnson had poured from the bottle of acid instead of the whisky. Dr. Frank Morrison says that death doubtless was caused by the heart disease. He had frequently been hurriedly summoned at night. The deceased woman was the mother of C. D. Johnson, the [court] stenographer. Her husband is a well-known member of the Typographical Union."
(Source: The Indianapolis News, Saturday 22 September 1894, page 6)
Her Long Illness Ended After a Mistake in Her Medicine
Mrs. Agnes L. Johnson, wife of W. W. Johnson, died suddenly this morning at her home, 236 East Vermont street. She had been for a long time a sufferer from asthma and heart disease. The physicians have warned the family that she might die suddenly from these causes. The husband and five [of seven] grown children have been constant in their attentions and some of them have always been within easy call of her bedside. The sick woman has required a stimulant when the attacks of her diseases came on. This morning, at 4 o'clock in a paroxysm of choking, she called for whisky, which was kept close by in readiness. Mr. Johnson sprang to the table and picked up what he supposed was the whisky. Pouring out a spoonful, he handed it hastily to his wife. She swallowed it and sank back on the pillow exclaiming, "Carbolic acid." She became insensible immediately and died before a physician could reach the house. In his haste Mr. Johnson had poured from the bottle of acid instead of the whisky. Dr. Frank Morrison says that death doubtless was caused by the heart disease. He had frequently been hurriedly summoned at night. The deceased woman was the mother of C. D. Johnson, the [court] stenographer. Her husband is a well-known member of the Typographical Union."
(Source: The Indianapolis News, Saturday 22 September 1894, page 6)
Inscription
No grave marker or monument. Her remains were interred in one of six graves in a family plot owned by "Mary E. Watts, Burton F. Watts, Jr. and Agnes May Watts."
Gravesite Details
Burial September 23,1894
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