Horace Mann JOHNSON was the fifth of 10 children of Samuel C. JOHNSON and Henrietta (Bell) JOHNSON. He was b. 13 Aug 1813 in Coitsville, Trumbull County, Ohio, but spent most of his early life in Iowa on his father's farm. He married Eliza Ann GRAHAM on 7 May 1872 in Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. Life in Iowa was hard -- 300 head of hogs all died in 1872, then grasshoppers in summer 1873 devastated their farm. The 1880 census shows them in Wahoo City, Saunders County, Nebraska, where he had a livery stable and worked as a carpenter. The following year, in 1881, he moved his family to a house on the high bank of the Truckee River in Wadsworth, Nevada, where worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as an engineer. He died in 1892 in the hospital of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, CA of injuries sustained from a fall from the running board of a moving engine, where he was attempting to make repairs, at Brown's Hill. Southern Pacific never paid the family anything.
Horace and Eliza had four children: Ethel Maude JOHNSON, Gertrude Madge JOHNSON, Horace Glenn JOHNSON, and Rodney Laurence JOHNSON.
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Horace and Eliza had four children: Ethel Maude JOHNSON, Gertrude Madge JOHNSON, Horace Glenn JOHNSON, and Rodney Laurence JOHNSON.
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Horace Mann JOHNSON was the fifth of 10 children of Samuel C. JOHNSON and Henrietta (Bell) JOHNSON. He was b. 13 Aug 1813 in Coitsville, Trumbull County, Ohio, but spent most of his early life in Iowa on his father's farm. He married Eliza Ann GRAHAM on 7 May 1872 in Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa. Life in Iowa was hard -- 300 head of hogs all died in 1872, then grasshoppers in summer 1873 devastated their farm. The 1880 census shows them in Wahoo City, Saunders County, Nebraska, where he had a livery stable and worked as a carpenter. The following year, in 1881, he moved his family to a house on the high bank of the Truckee River in Wadsworth, Nevada, where worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as an engineer. He died in 1892 in the hospital of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, CA of injuries sustained from a fall from the running board of a moving engine, where he was attempting to make repairs, at Brown's Hill. Southern Pacific never paid the family anything.
Horace and Eliza had four children: Ethel Maude JOHNSON, Gertrude Madge JOHNSON, Horace Glenn JOHNSON, and Rodney Laurence JOHNSON.
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Horace and Eliza had four children: Ethel Maude JOHNSON, Gertrude Madge JOHNSON, Horace Glenn JOHNSON, and Rodney Laurence JOHNSON.
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