Mrs. Sarah C. Johnson
Paris News Service

COOPER — Mrs. Sarah Catherine Johnson 79, died Monday about 2 a. m. in Enloe at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Cain, where she lived.

The funeral, Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., will be held at Lake Creek Methodist Church by the Rev. Paul Lamb, retired Baptist minister of Cooper. Delta Funeral Home will make burial in Lake Creek Cemetery.

Pallbearers are to be Alton Goolsby, Andrew Little, Dennis Jeter, J. A. Landers, Herman Landers and J. P. Roling.

Born at Charleston, February 24, 1878, Mrs. Johnson was a daughter of the late J. W. and Sarah Ann (George) Wilson.

Surviving are these children besides Mrs. Cain: Mrs. C. B. Johnson, Pecan Gap, and Jame* A. Johnson, Woodland; 25 grandchildren, eight great - grandchildren; these brothers and sisters: W. A. Wilson, Cooper; H. P. Wilson, Hedley; Mrs. Ida Segall and Mrs. P.L. Ayles, Lake Creek; Mrs. Sue Cregg, Pattonville, and Mrs. Lizzie Skeen, Durant, Okla.

The Paris News, Paris, Texas, 11 Mar 1957, Mon • Page 8
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Sarah Catherine, daughter of John W. Wilson & Sarah Ann (George). Her husband was Eddie P. Johnson.

Eddie Peterson Johnson and Sarah Catherine Wilson married January 2, 1898. Sarah had inherited a nice house and two and one half acres from her parents, John and Sarah Wilson. It was about half a mile east of Lake Creek just east of the cotton gin. So, Eddie and Sarah moved into the house. There was a white picket fence around the house. In the early days the house had nice carpet and wallpaper. Eddie had some money and they bought beautiful furniture.

Sarah also received a fifty acre farm from her parents. It was about one half mile east of there. Eddie decided to quit teaching and become a farmer. They farmed the land, raising mostly cotton.

All of Granny's siblings received either land, money or a college education from their parents. All of the girls received houses and land, as it was the general feeling in those days for the women to stay home and take care of the children and the home and did not need an education.

It was believed that Uncle Bill and Uncle Harve received the education and Uncle Tom took the money; he had a butcher shop in Cooper. Vivian remembers he was a nice man with a white apron. Uncle Bill became an attorney.

~~Biographical information provided by Earl Johnson