Mrs. Melinda Johnson (ca. 1815-1901)

JOHNSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/3/2011 at 22:50:28

From Story County Watchman November 8, 1901

Cambridge Dispatch: ....Mrs. Melinda Johnson was born in Norway 86 years ago last June. She left that country about 43 years ago and came to Illinois, thence to Ballard Grove, west of Cambridge Iowa, where she resided until within fourteen years ago, when she came to Cambridge where she made her home until her death, which occurred at the home of her son, Henery Johnson last Saturday morning October 26.