JOHNSON, Ingeborg 1852-1931

JOHNSON, SCHOGER, CHRISTIANSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/28/2010 at 20:12:42

Early Settler,
Mrs. Ingeborg Johnson,
Died Last Friday

Mrs. Ingeborg Johnson was born at the parish of Birl, Norway, February 7, 1852. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church of that place.

In the spring of 1874 she emigrated to America and located temporarily in Osage, Iowa. During the first years of her stay in this country she worked as a domestic in different places.

In December 1877, she was united in marriage to Jens Johnson, who, also, recently had come from Norway. The first years of her married life were spent in Cedar Township, Mitchell County. Later they moved to their own farm in Rock Township, on which place she live forty-one years.

Mrs. Johnson has enjoyed fairly good health until about eight years ago, when she broke her hip and has been hindered in moving around as formerly.

The last three years of her life, however, it has been very noticeable that her strength was gradually failing, but it is only the last week that she has been confined to her bed.

In her wedlock, eight children (four girls and four boys) were born. Besides her husband, the following near relatives survive: Mrs. C. E. Schoger, Mrs. J. A. Christianson, Mrs. Julius Anderson, John G. and Alfred Johnson. There is also one sister, Mrs. Anton Johnson, of Meltonville, Iowa; thirteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren surviving.

Mrs. Johnson was blessed with a cheerful, hospitable, friendly and kind spirit and delighted in doing good to all who visited her.

Since locating in this community she has also been an active and loyal member of the Rock Creek Lutheran Church. Because of her crippled condition she often deplored her inability to attend public worship in the church, but her pastor ministered to her regularly in her home and she received God's word and sacrament with rejoicing and gratitude.

She died July 17, 1931. The cause of her death, besides the infirmities of old age, was intestinal flue, and hardening of the arteries.

Funeral service was conducted by pastor O. C. Myhre, in the Shelledy Funeral Home, at 2 p.m. and the Rock Creek Lutheran Church at 2:30 July 19, 1931.

Interment was made in the family lot in the Rock Creek Lutheran Cemetery.

[Mitchell County Press, Wednesday, July 22, 1931]