David (Dave) is the firstborn child of Sixtus Ellis Johnson and Mary Stratton. His father was a colonizer in Utah, Arizona, and Mexico which gave Dave an interesting life. His father moved the family from Virgin to a new settlement named Johnson, east of Kanab, Utah. From there they moved to Concho, Arizona and then into northern Mexico where they helped in laying out the town of Colonia Juarez by the time Dave was seventeen.
Dave made several trips back to Arizona for his father, to get the rest of the family and to settle business affairs. On one of those trips he met Rosetta Thurston and she became his wife in 1891. They became parents to three girls: Mary Amy, Mildred, and Rosetta. Unfortunately his wife, Rosetta, died in 1897 and the Mildred died later that year.
Dave's sister, Annie, took care of his girls until he married Alice Walser on November 27, 1902. They became parents to nine children: David Ellis Jr., Camilla, Anthony Wayne, Cora, Leroy, Alice, Ada, Fay Laney, and Verl.
While his family was growing Dave farmed and did odd jobs. For eleven years he carried the mail from the railroad terminal to Colonia Juarez as well as passengers. In 1912, because of the Mexican revolution, Dave evacuated his family out of Mexico with the rest of the Saints. As soon as they could they moved back in. The rebels were still roaming the country and gave his family a scare from time to time.
When baby, Verl, was six months old, Alice suddenly died (March 1918). Dave had eight motherless children with the oldest barely fourteen. For the rest of their upbringing Dave was both father and mother to his children seeing them educated and married well.
In 1956 Dave went on a historic train out of Salt Lake City to see the Palmyra Pageant in New York and other historic LDS Church sites. The following year he took a trip to Hawaii visiting the place where his father was a missionary in the 1850s.
David (Dave) is the firstborn child of Sixtus Ellis Johnson and Mary Stratton. His father was a colonizer in Utah, Arizona, and Mexico which gave Dave an interesting life. His father moved the family from Virgin to a new settlement named Johnson, east of Kanab, Utah. From there they moved to Concho, Arizona and then into northern Mexico where they helped in laying out the town of Colonia Juarez by the time Dave was seventeen.
Dave made several trips back to Arizona for his father, to get the rest of the family and to settle business affairs. On one of those trips he met Rosetta Thurston and she became his wife in 1891. They became parents to three girls: Mary Amy, Mildred, and Rosetta. Unfortunately his wife, Rosetta, died in 1897 and the Mildred died later that year.
Dave's sister, Annie, took care of his girls until he married Alice Walser on November 27, 1902. They became parents to nine children: David Ellis Jr., Camilla, Anthony Wayne, Cora, Leroy, Alice, Ada, Fay Laney, and Verl.
While his family was growing Dave farmed and did odd jobs. For eleven years he carried the mail from the railroad terminal to Colonia Juarez as well as passengers. In 1912, because of the Mexican revolution, Dave evacuated his family out of Mexico with the rest of the Saints. As soon as they could they moved back in. The rebels were still roaming the country and gave his family a scare from time to time.
When baby, Verl, was six months old, Alice suddenly died (March 1918). Dave had eight motherless children with the oldest barely fourteen. For the rest of their upbringing Dave was both father and mother to his children seeing them educated and married well.
In 1956 Dave went on a historic train out of Salt Lake City to see the Palmyra Pageant in New York and other historic LDS Church sites. The following year he took a trip to Hawaii visiting the place where his father was a missionary in the 1850s.
Family Members
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Mary Emeline Johnson McNeil
1870–1896
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Luella Jane Johnson McNeil
1872–1950
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Sixtus Harlem Johnson
1874–1956
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Anthony Wayne Johnson
1876–1878
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Elsenor "Tenna" Johnson Nelson
1878–1968
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Kindness Flood Johnson Lunt
1880–1952
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Joel Hills Johnson
1882–1929
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Layne Johnson
1885–1891
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Charles Hilton Johnson
1888–1945
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Anna Lovina Johnson Hilton
1852–1935
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Melissa Editha Johnson Martineau
1859–1920
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Phoebe Johnson
1861–1863
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Sarah Sophia Johnson Martineau
1863–1944
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Mary Elizabeth Johnson Shumway
1865–1944
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Seth Merrill Johnson
1869–1940
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Ada Johnson East
1871–1955
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Amy Johnson
1871–1888
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Ellis Alvin Johnson
1872–1929
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Elizabeth Margaret Johnson
1874–1874
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Lulu Loa Johnson
1874–1874
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Nora Ann Johnson Carlton
1877–1959
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Wallace France Johnson
1879–1938
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Phoebe Earston Johnson Scott
1881–1988
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Amy Johnson Stevens
1892–1919
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Rose Johnson Weech
1897–1990
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David Ellis "Dave" Johnson Jr
1904–1995
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Camilla Johnson Brown
1905–1957
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Anthony Wayne Johnson
1907–1907
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Cora Johnson Judd
1908–1995
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Leroy Johnson
1910–1997
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Alice Johnson Allred
1912–2012
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Ada Johnson Fenn
1914–1978
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Fay L Johnson
1915–2006
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SSGT Verl Johnson
1917–1945
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