Isabella was the daughter of William Johnson and Mary Ann (Annie) Hammond. Her father was a Royal Marine who died of heart failure when Isabella was only two. Her father's Johnson family joined the L.D.S. church in England and immigrated to Utah in 1868. Isabella was educated at a girl's boarding school in London.
After she finished school, she was encouraged to come to America by her uncle J.T. (Joseph Thomas) Johnson who was a prominent contractor in Odgen, Utah. She sailed to America in 1883 at the age of eighteen, aboard the ship Nevada, then traveled to Utah by train. She soon met a German stone mason named Philip Kloepfer and they married on 26 January 1887 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. They had two boys, Frank Philip in 1887 and William Henry in 1889.
Isabella was expecting a daughter when she contracted scarlet fever and soon died. When Isabella died Philip didn't have money to put a headstone on her grave. The Johnson family pooled their funds and purchased the stone. Unfortunately, her name was badly misspelled on the gravestone.
Her stone reads ISABELLE KLOEPOHFLER.
After she finished school, she was encouraged to come to America by her uncle J.T. (Joseph Thomas) Johnson who was a prominent contractor in Odgen, Utah. She sailed to America in 1883 at the age of eighteen, aboard the ship Nevada, then traveled to Utah by train. She soon met a German stone mason named Philip Kloepfer and they married on 26 January 1887 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. They had two boys, Frank Philip in 1887 and William Henry in 1889.
Isabella was expecting a daughter when she contracted scarlet fever and soon died. When Isabella died Philip didn't have money to put a headstone on her grave. The Johnson family pooled their funds and purchased the stone. Unfortunately, her name was badly misspelled on the gravestone.
Her stone reads ISABELLE KLOEPOHFLER.
Isabella was the daughter of William Johnson and Mary Ann (Annie) Hammond. Her father was a Royal Marine who died of heart failure when Isabella was only two. Her father's Johnson family joined the L.D.S. church in England and immigrated to Utah in 1868. Isabella was educated at a girl's boarding school in London.
After she finished school, she was encouraged to come to America by her uncle J.T. (Joseph Thomas) Johnson who was a prominent contractor in Odgen, Utah. She sailed to America in 1883 at the age of eighteen, aboard the ship Nevada, then traveled to Utah by train. She soon met a German stone mason named Philip Kloepfer and they married on 26 January 1887 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. They had two boys, Frank Philip in 1887 and William Henry in 1889.
Isabella was expecting a daughter when she contracted scarlet fever and soon died. When Isabella died Philip didn't have money to put a headstone on her grave. The Johnson family pooled their funds and purchased the stone. Unfortunately, her name was badly misspelled on the gravestone.
Her stone reads ISABELLE KLOEPOHFLER.
After she finished school, she was encouraged to come to America by her uncle J.T. (Joseph Thomas) Johnson who was a prominent contractor in Odgen, Utah. She sailed to America in 1883 at the age of eighteen, aboard the ship Nevada, then traveled to Utah by train. She soon met a German stone mason named Philip Kloepfer and they married on 26 January 1887 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. They had two boys, Frank Philip in 1887 and William Henry in 1889.
Isabella was expecting a daughter when she contracted scarlet fever and soon died. When Isabella died Philip didn't have money to put a headstone on her grave. The Johnson family pooled their funds and purchased the stone. Unfortunately, her name was badly misspelled on the gravestone.
Her stone reads ISABELLE KLOEPOHFLER.
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