Re: Lucinda Johnson - Where is she?
JOHNSON, ARMSTRONG, HALSTEAD, COBURN, GRIMES
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Lucinda Johnson - Where is she? (Susan)
Date: 8/7/2018 at 14:14:14
There is no official listing for Lucinda Johnson buried in Oakland Cemetery. There was a major fire of their records and they have been partially reconstructed but are not complete, especially for the early years.
She is not recorded in any death index for Webster County either, but they were very incomplete in the 1880's.
An interesting land record. The property of a Lucinda Johnson in Fort Dodge was sold in September 1883 for back real estate taxes due in 1882. The property was originally purchased on October 4, 1875. This was for Lot 3, Block 67, City of Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa. The tax due was $88.00, Interest and costs $33.00 for a total tax delinquency of $121.00
Later, Amon Johnson bought Lot 4, Block 63 in Fort Dodge in August 1887 for $75.00
I could locate no news item recording her death. Perhaps you could search the newspaper in the area of Pennsylvania she was from in the 1880's for a death notice or obituary. Have you checked that she is not buried in Pennsylvania alongside her husband? She may have returned to Pennsylvania for a visit and not died in Iowa.
Her son, Amon Johnson's obituary indicates he moved to Fort Dodge in ca. 1875-1876 which coincides with the house purchase on October 4, 1875 by a Lucinda Johnson. Amon would have only been 22 years of age and perhaps his mother purchased the house. Did Warren Johnson (Amon's father and Lucinda's husband) have a probate from which they inherited?
Pioneer of Fort Dodge Since 1876—Employed by I. C.
Amon Warren Johnson was born in Scranton, Pa, in 1854. In 1873 he was married to Miss Ida A. Halstead of Scranton, moving west in 1876. He located in Fort Dodge among the early settlers and has made his home here ever since. During this time he was employed for a number of years by the Illinois Central railroad, but of late years has been employed as a cooper for the Iowa Paint Manufacturing company. His death occurred Monday, Feb 7. He leaves to mourn his loss two daughters, Mrs. Charles Grimes of Fort Dodge and Mrs. B. L. Coburn of Sioux City; eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife, one son and one daughter preceded him in death.Fort Dodge Messenger And Chronicle -- Fort Dodge, Iowa
February 12, 1921*****
Wyoming Democrat -- Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
January 17, 1872News item about a note to Simon Armstrong for $55 in Overfield Twp., signed by Amon Johnson and Lucinda Johnson on October 1, 1871.
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