1.1.8 Amiel Johnson   |
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| Birth | 29 Sep 1809, Reading, VT |
| Death | 20 Nov 1873, Carroll, IA |
| Line | (Capt. John, Isaac, Nathaniel, John, Edward, John, Uriah.) |
[p. 20] Amiel Johnson, youngest son of Uriah and Anna Johnson, whose mother died when he was bout three or four years old, was bound out to a farmer named Coolidge, until he was twenty-one. He had a very poor chance for education, as he was often kept from school to work, and when not too tired to study at night, had only firelight to study by. At the age of twenty-nine he married Mary Wood, youngest daughter of Josiah Wood, of Sherburne, Vt. They lived for a short time in Bridgewater, Ct., then went to Sherburne, Vt., where they lived until the first of the year 1858, when they moved to Illinois, near the town of Washington. In 1860 they moved to Livingston County, Ill., and in 1869 to Carroll, Iowa, where they spent the remainder of their lives, and where both are buried. Of their four daughters and four sons, one son, Edmund Stanley, died in 1866, at the age of seventeen. The other seven are living (March 1, 1908), in seven different States -- California, Orgeggon, Washington, Wyoming, Colorada, Illinois and Iowa. In the early fifties (exact date not known to this writer), Mr. Johnson served one term as a member of the Vermont Legislature. In 1872 he and his wife visited friends in Vermont, and he went to Schroon, N. Y., to see his brother Zelotes. This was the only time they went back, after moving west. November 20, 1873, he died of pneumonia, after a brief illness. [p. 29] I am indebted, in the main, to Mrs. Ruth Olive Johnson Culbertson, daughter of Amiel Johnson, for so complete a record of descendants of Amiel Johnson. It will be seen the omissions of records of the family of Uriah would probably fill several pages, if I could get them. I well hope this edition of the genealogy will excite the interest of the family to complete the record to date, and that all will take prinde in a new and nearer complete edition of some younger and stronger son or daughter of John and Ruth. See what is said after the family of Ruth. |
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SML Comment: In the narrative, the name of brother Elijah is written to replace the printed name Zelotes. |
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| Spouse | Mary Wood |
| Birth | 10 Feb 1817, Sherborn, Vt. |
| Death | 19 Nov 1879, Carroll, IA |
| Father | Josiah Wood |
| Marr | 17 Jan 1839 |
| Children | Ellen Francis (1839-) |
| Mary Marcella (1842-1909) | |
| Judith Woodbury (1844-) | |
| Clarence Amiel (-1923) | |
| Edmond Stanley (1848-1866) | |
| Orville Cephas (1851-) | |
| Ruth Olivia (1853-) | |
| Everell Alanson (1854-) |