A wealthy man and a postmaster
An argument over a ditch
A revolver came out and several shots fired
Some of them never hit
A shed to hide
A suicide
The story of the attempted murder of John James Johnson by Coleman Hawkins in a nutshell. Just who were these men? Were they more than just neighbors?
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Posts Tagged ‘Johnson’
The Calendar
Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, Records, personal, tagged death, genealogy, Johnson, Ohio, personal, photos, Records on October 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
(Continued from The Box)
After I had opened the box, unwrapped the tissue paper to find my mom’s baby sister’s bonnet and removed the tissue paper, I saw a calendar at the bottom of the box.
Carefully I lifted out the Calendar from 1927 and slowly flipped the pages. When I found the month of June, there [...]
The Box
Posted in Inheritance, Life and Death, Photographs, Records, personal, tagged baby, genealogy, heirloom, Johnson, personal on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Back in May when my sister and I were going through our Mom’s things, I found the box (above) in an old footlocker. There isn’t a footlocker, crate, or box that can keep me out when I think there might be a treasure inside. So I opened the box.
Inside there was something wrapped in tissue [...]
Very Large Portraits of Ancestors
Posted in Inheritance, Photographs, tagged Blazer, Goul, heirlooms, Johnson, Photographs, photos, Wilt on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wrote this post about wanting to meet Maureen Taylor of Photo Detective fame and show her the portraits I’ve acquired. Yesterday I had an opportunity to photograph the portraits – since they are way too large to scan – and look them over a little more. I had to experiment a little because each [...]
Tombstone Tuesday – Johnson
Posted in Life and Death, Photographs, Tombstone Tuesday, challenge, personal, tagged cemetery, Clark County, Glen Haven, graves, Johnson, Ohio, Tombstone Tuesday on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The marker for my maternal grandparents – Glen and Vesta Johnson. They are at rest at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens, New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio. I took this picture on May 13, 2009 after my mother’s graveside service. It had rained on and off that morning – so the dark spots on the marker is [...]
Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Posted in Carnival of Genealogy, Inheritance, Life and Death, challenge, letters, tagged Carnival of Genealogy, census, CoG, Johnson, letters, personal, Stern on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The 65th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is “The Happy Dance. The Joy of Genealogy” and will be hosted by Becky Wiseman (one of my distant cousins!) of Kinexxions.
I’ve had several “Oh, Yeah!” moments. One of them I wrote about in A Goldmine – about discovering a box of letters written by my grandparents [...]
Where Are You?
Posted in Life and Death, geography, tagged Blazer, census, House, Indiana, Johnson, Ohio on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some of my ancestors were “lost” at one point or another in their lives. I find them in one census – then they are missing from the next one – and found again on the one following. Unfortunately, it is always the census that could give me that extra bit of information – children’s names, [...]








