Johnson, J. W.

JOHNSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/13/2008 at 14:29:27

J. W. Johnson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.258, Waveland Twp.)
J. W. Johnson, farmer, P. O. Griswold, was born January 31, 1845, in Warren County, Ill., son of Evander and Edith (Reed) Johnson, natives of Kentucky. The parents had seven children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Johnson began working by the month on a farm in Illinois; he moved from that State to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1869, and bought sixty acres at $10 per acre; he now has 160 acres, valued at $40 per acre; and a fine residence. He has an orchadr of 100 trees, besides other fruits; also one acre of artificial grove. Mr. Johnson was married, in Illinois, in 1869, to Delpha Dehart, born in Illinois in 1852, daughter of Larkin and Sarah Dehart. Mr. Johnson lost his first wife in 1871, and March 31, 1872, in Iowa, he married Caroline Stidham, born in Iowa May 21, 1853, daughter of David G. and Susan Ann (Winegar) Stidham. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had four children - Rosetta, Edith L., John D., who died November 22, 1881, and Franklin E., the latter born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, the others born in Montgomery County. Mrs. Johnson belongs to the Christian Church.