Johnson, Jane Carmaline – d. 1902

JOHNSON, SAMS, STORM, WRIGHT

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:29

Death of Mrs. Henderson Johnson
Jane Carmaline Humphreys, wife of H. W Johnson, deceased, a pioneer citizen of this county, died at Guthrie Center, Iowa, September 16, 1902, aged 76 years, 8 months and 2 days.
Deceased had been for many years a sufferer from chronic bronchial derangement, but the immediate cause of death was acute dysentery.
At the age of 19 she was united in marriage with H. W, Johnson, who died Dec. 29, 1883, at the age of 66 years and 8 months, and of the 9 children born to them the following survive: Mrs. Hester A. Storm, Waterloo, Iowa, Nicholas W., Aberdeen, S.D.; John R., Okoboji, Iowa, Mrs. Valeria E. Wright, Melvern, Kansas, and Hiram A., Guthrie Center, Iowa.
She came from Tennessee to Illinois in 1851 and on to Iowa in 1854, locating at Greencastle, a few years later settling on the farm on which the town of Valeria was located in 1880, and which was named for her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Wright. In March, 1886, she removed to Guthrie Center, Iowa, with her sons John and Hiram. In autumn, 1880, she went to Welsh, La., where her son, John had located. In the spring of 1896 she went to Melvern, Kansas, and lived until August, 1897, with Mrs. Wright, her daughter, returning to make her home with her son, John, at Okoboji, Iowa, until August 7, ult., when she went to her son Hiram, at Guthrie Center, Ia., where she was prostrated with what proved to be her fatal illness. Mrs. Johnson was a devout and faithful member of the Baptist church from her 19th year.
Her son, John, and daughter, Valeria, accompanied her remains to their final resting place in the Sams cemetery where they were placed beside those of her husband, after the funeral at Valeria at 5 p.m. Thursday conducted by Rev. Wilkins.
She was the second of a family of 11 children, 3 of whom survive her. Her sister, Mrs. Evaline Sams, having passed away August 19.
Her husband was a former stock raiser and coal operator in this county – opening up the Johnson mine at Oswalt in 1878.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Clipper; Saturday, September 20, 1902, page 8