Hallie Johnson Hunter 1874-1916

JOHNSON, HUNTER, PERKINS, WHITMORE, STANLEY

Posted By: Rich Lowe (email)
Date: 10/1/2001 at 14:14:55

Hallie Estelle Johnson, daughter of Thomas Benton and Rebecca Jane Perkins Johnson, was born near Bonaparte, Iowa, May 25, 1874, and died Dec. 27, 1916, at the age of 42 years, 7 months, and 2 days. She was married Nov. 28, 1894, to Iowa Hunter and to them were born three children, Bessie, Willard and Doris, who are at home. The greater part her life was spent on the farm where she died. There she was born and lived throughout her childhood with the exception of a short residence in Bonaparte following the death of her mother who died when she was only five years old. The marriage of Thomas Johnson and Josephine Whitmore in 1882 gave to her a second mother and they again lived on the home farm until 1898 when failing health of the step mother led them to move to Bonaparte. During the step mother’s illness which lasted several years, the care of the home and family fell largely upon her who accepted the responsibility in her characteristically noble manner, young as she was. Following Hallie’s marriage, her father, brother and one sister moved to California since which time she has been the only member of her family left in Iowa. The first year of the married life of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter was spent on the farm on Vernon Prairie known as the Burn's place and there Bessie was born. By this time they had purchased Hallie's old home place and moved there early in 1896. The first year they lived in the same house which had been her grand-mother’s home and the other children were born there. In 1907 they built the house in which she lived until her death which home was supplied with all modern conveniences for the enjoyment of life. She was very industrious by nature. She was one who never shirked a responsibility of whatever kind. Her cheerful disposition endeared her to an extremely wide circle of friends in home, social, and religious life. It is one consolation of the bereaved family that she did enjoy life so well while she was with them. She was always supplied with the conveniences and even luxuries, and had taken numerous visits away, the last being a trip to the Exposition at San Francisco in 1915 when she was privileged to visit her family in their own home. She was a member of the Methodist church having joined with her husband in the year 1905 and was always a willing worker. She will be missed there. The same must be said of her in all the walks of life. She will be missed. Her loss can never be supplied to the family. One thinks of the sorrowing father and sister in California. She left a large number of relatives in Iowa, both of her father’s and her mother’s people who will always miss her, and an unusually large circle of friends – but they will not soon forget Hallie, as everyone has always called her. She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, the three children, her father, one brother, William Barton Johnson, and one sister, Mrs. Chester Stanley of San Francisco, besides other relatives and friends. Her place among all will long be vacant.

[I would like to hear from anyone with connections to this family. - Rich]