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Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston

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Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston

Birth
Alabama, USA
Death
15 Jan 1885 (aged 56)
Grapeland, Houston County, Texas, USA
Burial
Grapeland, Houston County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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~Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston~
The daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia

CAROLINE was quite a belle. She seems to have been educated for those days as she taught school and after they came to Texas, she was a doctor, mostly a mid-wife, and seemed to be pretty good as she kept busy. Caroline died at the young age of 57 from exposure, or pneumonia, from riding a horse in freezing weather to care for the sick.
The mother of nine children, Adaline Elizabeth, Zilpha Ann, Mary Louisa, Joyce Shaw, and John Overstreet; John Madison Horne; Thomas Benton and Jeff Davis Keen; and Martha Strother... Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston Overstreet Horne Keen Strother was born May 28, 1828 in Alabama. She was the daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia. She died January 15, 1885 in Grapeland, Texas.
Children :Zilpha Ann "Ziffie" Overstreet Parker
Adaline Elizabeth "Lizzie" Overstreet Keen
~Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston~
The daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia

CAROLINE was quite a belle. She seems to have been educated for those days as she taught school and after they came to Texas, she was a doctor, mostly a mid-wife, and seemed to be pretty good as she kept busy. Caroline died at the young age of 57 from exposure, or pneumonia, from riding a horse in freezing weather to care for the sick.
The mother of nine children, Adaline Elizabeth, Zilpha Ann, Mary Louisa, Joyce Shaw, and John Overstreet; John Madison Horne; Thomas Benton and Jeff Davis Keen; and Martha Strother... Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston Overstreet Horne Keen Strother was born May 28, 1828 in Alabama. She was the daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia. She died January 15, 1885 in Grapeland, Texas.
Children :Zilpha Ann "Ziffie" Overstreet Parker
Adaline Elizabeth "Lizzie" Overstreet Keen


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