Harriet Amanda (Cleveland) Johnson (1923)

CLEVELAND, JOHNSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/21/2010 at 14:09:22

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 15, 1923
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Mrs. Harriet Johnson died Friday afternoon at her home on East Filmore street, at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Johnson fell and broke her hip about four weeks ago, and her extreme old age made in impossible for her to recover. She became gradually weaker, until her death occurred on Friday.

Mrs. Johnson was born in Humphrey, N. Y., and in 1876 came to Iowa and settled in Jefferson township in this county. Here she and her husband, Thomas Johnson made their home. They moved to Winterset 20 years ago, in 1903, and Mr. Johnson died in 1906. She is survived by her four sons: William of Ft. Des Moines and Andrew, Charles and Ernest of this county.

Funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the Adventist church and burial was made in the McDonald cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 15, 1923
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It is only given to a few people of this age to be born a daughter of parents when western New York was on the frontier, in the home of Andrew and Luev Cleveland there came one day a little blue eyed girl whom they called Harriet Amanda, and it was the lost of this little girl to live on this frontier her girlhood and early womanhood with her father and mother first in western New York then in Wisconsin, not far from Watertown, where she went with her father and mother when she was 12 years old and with her labor helped them to make a home in that state.

In July, 1865, she was married to Thomas Johnson, and to this union were born six children, three in Wisconsin and three in Iowa. In 1876 she and her husband and children, accompanied by her father, mother, brother and family, came to her sister, who had come to Iowa and settled on a farm near Winterset. For 47 years her home has been in and near Winterset.

In 1897 she joined the Adventist church, to which she was a loyal member until the time of her death. To all who knew her she was a kind and obliging neighbor, willing to help anyone that needed help.

Her daughter, Martha, died in infancy, the daughter, Ida, on whom she had grown to place so much dependence and who was such a joy to her mother left her one morning for her eternal rest and she had hardly recovered from the shock of losing her when her husband died in 1917. He passed to his reward and she was left to travel the rest of her life alone, with only her sons to Comfort her.

With her in her last illness were the son William and wife of Ft. Des Moines, Andrew and wife, Charles and wife and Ernest of Winterset; her brother, A. E. Cleveland and wife of Earlham; 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild and a host of loving friends.

Harriet Amanda Johnson was born in Humphrey, N. Y., June 4, 1843 and departed this life Nov. 9, 1923, aged 80 years 5 months and 5 days. Her life was devoted to the service of others.

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