Newport Hoosier State
Wednesday, February 28, 1883
Died at the residence of his daughter, Catherine Johnson, in Newport, IN, on Thursday, February 22, 1883, after a lingering illness, John C. Johnson, aged 75 years, 9 months, and 6 days. John C. Johnson was born May 16, 1807 in Belmont County, OH, of respectable parents, and was raised like all western farmer's boys of that period, to hard work and with few advantages of school or society. He lived with his father until he arrived at majority, when he went out into the world with nothing but his hands, a brave, energetic heart and an honest purpose, to make his way. He learned the ship carpenter's trade at one of the boat yards on the Ohio River and followed that calling for some years. On February 24, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Shaver, his first and only wife, who had greater advantages in youth than he. One year after his marriage, Mr. Johnson and his noble wife removed to this county, laboriously pushing the boat loaded with all their earthly possessions up the Wabash, and landing near the mouth of the Little Vermillion on April 8, 1834, entered a small tract of land, built a cabin, and began a life in what is known as the "first bottom" which continued until 1854. The first person who visited them after they had built their cabin was Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, now the widow of John Hopkins, deceased, since which time a close friendship has existed between the two families and especially between those who so met in that lonely pioneer cabin. Mrs. Hopkins, almost the sole survivor of Mr. Johnson's early friends, was present at his death, and with her gentle, motherly, and kind hands, closed the eyes of her old friend. If Mr. Johnson could have chosen the person to perform this sad but gentle office, none other (since his good and loving wife had gone before him) would have been selected. In 1854, Mr. Johnson built the house where he lived until 1880, when he and his daughters Catherine and Flora removed to the house in Newport where he died. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 7 survive, everyone of whom is worthy of the honest and upright parents from whom they sprung. No child of theirs ever caused them any gloomy fears or an unhappy hour, and they are all now in the enjoyment of a competence accumulated by the patient industry and careful, yet reasonable, economy of their father and mother. Most of the bountiful fortune accumulated by Mr. Johnson he distributed in his lifetime among his children, all of whom loved and cared for him and watched over him with boundless affection during the many weary days and nights of his long sickness. Mr. Johnson was of the class that makes countries grand and rich. He was used to overcoming obstacles; he overcame the wildness of nature and turned hundreds of acres of trackless and malaria breeding river bottom forests into smiling, fruitful fields.
Wednesday, February 28, 1883
Died at the residence of his daughter, Catherine Johnson, in Newport, IN, on Thursday, February 22, 1883, after a lingering illness, John C. Johnson, aged 75 years, 9 months, and 6 days. John C. Johnson was born May 16, 1807 in Belmont County, OH, of respectable parents, and was raised like all western farmer's boys of that period, to hard work and with few advantages of school or society. He lived with his father until he arrived at majority, when he went out into the world with nothing but his hands, a brave, energetic heart and an honest purpose, to make his way. He learned the ship carpenter's trade at one of the boat yards on the Ohio River and followed that calling for some years. On February 24, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Shaver, his first and only wife, who had greater advantages in youth than he. One year after his marriage, Mr. Johnson and his noble wife removed to this county, laboriously pushing the boat loaded with all their earthly possessions up the Wabash, and landing near the mouth of the Little Vermillion on April 8, 1834, entered a small tract of land, built a cabin, and began a life in what is known as the "first bottom" which continued until 1854. The first person who visited them after they had built their cabin was Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, now the widow of John Hopkins, deceased, since which time a close friendship has existed between the two families and especially between those who so met in that lonely pioneer cabin. Mrs. Hopkins, almost the sole survivor of Mr. Johnson's early friends, was present at his death, and with her gentle, motherly, and kind hands, closed the eyes of her old friend. If Mr. Johnson could have chosen the person to perform this sad but gentle office, none other (since his good and loving wife had gone before him) would have been selected. In 1854, Mr. Johnson built the house where he lived until 1880, when he and his daughters Catherine and Flora removed to the house in Newport where he died. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 7 survive, everyone of whom is worthy of the honest and upright parents from whom they sprung. No child of theirs ever caused them any gloomy fears or an unhappy hour, and they are all now in the enjoyment of a competence accumulated by the patient industry and careful, yet reasonable, economy of their father and mother. Most of the bountiful fortune accumulated by Mr. Johnson he distributed in his lifetime among his children, all of whom loved and cared for him and watched over him with boundless affection during the many weary days and nights of his long sickness. Mr. Johnson was of the class that makes countries grand and rich. He was used to overcoming obstacles; he overcame the wildness of nature and turned hundreds of acres of trackless and malaria breeding river bottom forests into smiling, fruitful fields.
Newport Hoosier State
Wednesday, February 28, 1883
Died at the residence of his daughter, Catherine Johnson, in Newport, IN, on Thursday, February 22, 1883, after a lingering illness, John C. Johnson, aged 75 years, 9 months, and 6 days. John C. Johnson was born May 16, 1807 in Belmont County, OH, of respectable parents, and was raised like all western farmer's boys of that period, to hard work and with few advantages of school or society. He lived with his father until he arrived at majority, when he went out into the world with nothing but his hands, a brave, energetic heart and an honest purpose, to make his way. He learned the ship carpenter's trade at one of the boat yards on the Ohio River and followed that calling for some years. On February 24, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Shaver, his first and only wife, who had greater advantages in youth than he. One year after his marriage, Mr. Johnson and his noble wife removed to this county, laboriously pushing the boat loaded with all their earthly possessions up the Wabash, and landing near the mouth of the Little Vermillion on April 8, 1834, entered a small tract of land, built a cabin, and began a life in what is known as the "first bottom" which continued until 1854. The first person who visited them after they had built their cabin was Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, now the widow of John Hopkins, deceased, since which time a close friendship has existed between the two families and especially between those who so met in that lonely pioneer cabin. Mrs. Hopkins, almost the sole survivor of Mr. Johnson's early friends, was present at his death, and with her gentle, motherly, and kind hands, closed the eyes of her old friend. If Mr. Johnson could have chosen the person to perform this sad but gentle office, none other (since his good and loving wife had gone before him) would have been selected. In 1854, Mr. Johnson built the house where he lived until 1880, when he and his daughters Catherine and Flora removed to the house in Newport where he died. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 7 survive, everyone of whom is worthy of the honest and upright parents from whom they sprung. No child of theirs ever caused them any gloomy fears or an unhappy hour, and they are all now in the enjoyment of a competence accumulated by the patient industry and careful, yet reasonable, economy of their father and mother. Most of the bountiful fortune accumulated by Mr. Johnson he distributed in his lifetime among his children, all of whom loved and cared for him and watched over him with boundless affection during the many weary days and nights of his long sickness. Mr. Johnson was of the class that makes countries grand and rich. He was used to overcoming obstacles; he overcame the wildness of nature and turned hundreds of acres of trackless and malaria breeding river bottom forests into smiling, fruitful fields.
Wednesday, February 28, 1883
Died at the residence of his daughter, Catherine Johnson, in Newport, IN, on Thursday, February 22, 1883, after a lingering illness, John C. Johnson, aged 75 years, 9 months, and 6 days. John C. Johnson was born May 16, 1807 in Belmont County, OH, of respectable parents, and was raised like all western farmer's boys of that period, to hard work and with few advantages of school or society. He lived with his father until he arrived at majority, when he went out into the world with nothing but his hands, a brave, energetic heart and an honest purpose, to make his way. He learned the ship carpenter's trade at one of the boat yards on the Ohio River and followed that calling for some years. On February 24, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Shaver, his first and only wife, who had greater advantages in youth than he. One year after his marriage, Mr. Johnson and his noble wife removed to this county, laboriously pushing the boat loaded with all their earthly possessions up the Wabash, and landing near the mouth of the Little Vermillion on April 8, 1834, entered a small tract of land, built a cabin, and began a life in what is known as the "first bottom" which continued until 1854. The first person who visited them after they had built their cabin was Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, now the widow of John Hopkins, deceased, since which time a close friendship has existed between the two families and especially between those who so met in that lonely pioneer cabin. Mrs. Hopkins, almost the sole survivor of Mr. Johnson's early friends, was present at his death, and with her gentle, motherly, and kind hands, closed the eyes of her old friend. If Mr. Johnson could have chosen the person to perform this sad but gentle office, none other (since his good and loving wife had gone before him) would have been selected. In 1854, Mr. Johnson built the house where he lived until 1880, when he and his daughters Catherine and Flora removed to the house in Newport where he died. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 7 survive, everyone of whom is worthy of the honest and upright parents from whom they sprung. No child of theirs ever caused them any gloomy fears or an unhappy hour, and they are all now in the enjoyment of a competence accumulated by the patient industry and careful, yet reasonable, economy of their father and mother. Most of the bountiful fortune accumulated by Mr. Johnson he distributed in his lifetime among his children, all of whom loved and cared for him and watched over him with boundless affection during the many weary days and nights of his long sickness. Mr. Johnson was of the class that makes countries grand and rich. He was used to overcoming obstacles; he overcame the wildness of nature and turned hundreds of acres of trackless and malaria breeding river bottom forests into smiling, fruitful fields.
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