Rough, mean, Texan frontiersman & wagon train driver/muleskinner of the New Mexico Territory, Oklahoma, & Arkansas. Married Nellie Eliza Wafford, his 14-year-old bride & wife of 22 years. Eight children. Settled near Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. Homesteaded briefly in Arkansas in 1895, & Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1910. Unfatherly, abandoning his sons in the New Mexico/Arizona desert after the death of his wife, 36, from measles in 1904. As his son Robert A. Johnson would later attest, his father handed him a rifle & told him he & his brothers would have to fend for themselves. Kept his promise to return for his sons exactly one year later. Died on his wagon train, 54, from carcinoma of the jaw. Indigent burial/no headstone. "Farmer" per his Texas Death Certificate. Swedish ancestry. Possibly 1/8th Native American Indian based upon one of his great-grandmothers being of Cherokee descent. Father's name/date of death was Thomas Johnson/May 22, 1885 per the JOHNSON-WAFFORD Family Bible.
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Newspaper obituary:
“J.W. Johnson died of cancer last Saturday, 11 September 1915 at 56 years. He had lived in Young County for a number of years and was buried at Oak Grove cemetery. Survived by eight children, the youngest being 14 years old.”
The Graham Leader
16 September 1915
- Newspaper obituary contributed by Dorman.
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Newspaper obituary:
“J.W. Johnson died of cancer last Saturday, 11 September 1915 at 56 years. He had lived in Young County for a number of years and was buried at Oak Grove cemetery. Survived by eight children, the youngest being 14 years old.”
The Graham Leader
16 September 1915
- Newspaper obituary contributed by Dorman.
Rough, mean, Texan frontiersman & wagon train driver/muleskinner of the New Mexico Territory, Oklahoma, & Arkansas. Married Nellie Eliza Wafford, his 14-year-old bride & wife of 22 years. Eight children. Settled near Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. Homesteaded briefly in Arkansas in 1895, & Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1910. Unfatherly, abandoning his sons in the New Mexico/Arizona desert after the death of his wife, 36, from measles in 1904. As his son Robert A. Johnson would later attest, his father handed him a rifle & told him he & his brothers would have to fend for themselves. Kept his promise to return for his sons exactly one year later. Died on his wagon train, 54, from carcinoma of the jaw. Indigent burial/no headstone. "Farmer" per his Texas Death Certificate. Swedish ancestry. Possibly 1/8th Native American Indian based upon one of his great-grandmothers being of Cherokee descent. Father's name/date of death was Thomas Johnson/May 22, 1885 per the JOHNSON-WAFFORD Family Bible.
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Newspaper obituary:
“J.W. Johnson died of cancer last Saturday, 11 September 1915 at 56 years. He had lived in Young County for a number of years and was buried at Oak Grove cemetery. Survived by eight children, the youngest being 14 years old.”
The Graham Leader
16 September 1915
- Newspaper obituary contributed by Dorman.
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Newspaper obituary:
“J.W. Johnson died of cancer last Saturday, 11 September 1915 at 56 years. He had lived in Young County for a number of years and was buried at Oak Grove cemetery. Survived by eight children, the youngest being 14 years old.”
The Graham Leader
16 September 1915
- Newspaper obituary contributed by Dorman.
Gravesite Details
Per FINDAGRAVE member "Searchers of Our Past":
J.W. Johnson (1861- 11 Sep 1915)
Son of Tom Johnson.
Survived by eight children, the youngest 14 years old.
Name shown on the 1927 plat map.
No tombstone in cemetery.
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