William Stuart Johnson 1836-1910

JOHNSON, NORWOOD, BROWN, PIERCE

Posted By: John Evan Davis (email)
Date: 11/12/2014 at 08:02:15

OBITUARY.

Wm. Stuart Johnson, son of Jabez and Eliza Johnson, was born near Morristown, N. J., Sept. 28, 1836. The family consisting of four sons and one daughter moved to Ohio in 1845, settling near Lexington. The subject of this sketch later went to Illinois and in 1856 or 1857 to Minnesota, coming back to Illinois about 1859 or 1860. He enlisted In Co. 16th Illinois Volunteers at Colchester, as fifer, ten days after Ft. Sumpter was fired upon. He was discharged for disability July 1862. He reenlisted in Co. K 138th Regiment Indiana Volunteers May 29th 1864 and after his discharge served in a construction corps until the end of the war. After the war he came to Iowa, where he was married to Gertrude Norwood March 10, 1869. To this union was born three children, Albert N. residing near Eddyville Earl S., who was killed by an accident, March 1897 and Mrs. Ella Brown of Frederic. He is also survived by two brothers J. M. Johnson, of Lovilia, and Gen. C. of Eddyville also a half-brother, Benjamin Johnson, of Missouri and one half-sister Enola Johnson of Colorado. His youngest brother Alexander, died during the civil war in the south and his only sister Mrs. Mary Pierce, died in Montana in autumn of 1910. Mr. Johnson died Jan. 15, 1911, aged 74 years, 3 months and 13 days. As a child he was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, but was never identified with any church. Funeral services from the Pleasant Corners Baptist church, interment will be there.