Joseph M. Johnston (1919)

JOHNSTON

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:38

The Evening Tribune
Des Moines, Iowa
Monday, March 10, 1919
Page 1, Column 6

J. M. JOHNSTON, PIONEER RESIDENT OF CITY DEAD

Mr. J. M. Johnston, 84 years old, 913 Laurel street, a resident of Des Moines for 30 years and father of E. E. Johnston, for several years chief of detectives of this city, died Sunday afternoon.

Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock from Newlin’s undertaking parlors, Fifteenth street and Woodland avenue.

Mr. Johnston was a veteran of the civil war. He enlisted with the Fourteenth Iowa infantry and participated in all the battles up to the battle of Shiloh, at which place all that was left of his company were taken prisoners. He was a member of the Crocker G. A. R.

He also leaves a daughter, Miss Orra Johnston.
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Transcriber's note: First name taken from gravestone. The deceased appears in Madison County censuses in 1870 and 1880.

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