Robert and Emma "Mariah" (HOSKINSON) JOHNSON were married in December of 1850, and lived in Caledonia, Ringgold County, Iowa. They were the parents of five children. At the age of 42 years, Robert enlisted as a Private on February 29, 1864, and was mustered into service with Company M of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. He died of disease November 3, 1864, Memphis, Tennessee and was interred there.

Mariah starved her self to death in her attempts to support her five small children. She died in 1864 and was interred in Cuba Cemetery, Cuba, Monroe County, Iowa.

SOURCE:
American Civil War Soldiers, ancestry.com

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2009