JOHNSON, Martha 1811-1900

JOHNSON

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 8/26/2019 at 12:01:06

Martha Johnson
1806 – Dec 13, 1900
[gravestone gives dates of Feb 10, 1811 – Dec 13, 1900]

New Hampton Gazette, New Hampton, IA., Thurs., Dec 27, 1900, p.8, col.5
Deaths
JOHNSON – At the home of her son, H. J. Johnson, in Jacksonville Township, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1900, Mrs. Martha Johnson, aged 94 years. Thus is recorded the passing of another whose life work has been intimately associated with the development of our county from the early pioneer days. Mary Thompson was born in Norway in the year 1806. There she grew to womanhood and was united in marriage in 1845 with John H. Johnson, and there her two children were born. Nine years later, in 1854, the family came to America, settling in Dane County, Wis., where they became the owners of a farm in what was then almost a wilderness. In 1866 they came to Chickasaw County and located on the farm which afterward continued to be the family homestead. Her husband died Nov. 8, 1876, and since then she has found a home with her son, who succeeded to the possession of the farm, and where loving hearts and willing hands gave testimony to the love of mother. For forty years deceased had been in delicate health causing her to pass the time in retirement surrounded by her kinspeople. She had been from her kinspeople. She had been from her youth a member of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. The funeral was held from her late residence Monday, Dec. 17, the services being conducted by Rev. Dummersness of Cresco. Interment was in Crane Creek Cemetery. Beside the son with whom she lived, she leaves a daughter – Mrs. John Leifson, of Lakefield, Minn. – whose ill health prevented her accompanying her husband to the funeral. The kindly sympathy and respect of the many friends and neighbors of the family was shown in the large attendance at the last rites and in their many acts of thoughtful assistance.