Orson Albert JOHNSON ¹⁶⁰

  Death Notes:

Tooele Transcript Bulletin 1920-07-23 page 1

ORSON JOHNSON, PIONEER, PASSES AWAY AT CLOVER.

After a brief illness from acute dilatation of the heart, caused through overexertion, death come Orson A. Johnson, at his home in Clover, Utah, Thursday morning of last week, July 15, 1920.

Orson Johnson was a pioneer of Clover, coming there with his parents at the age of six years in the first wagon ever drawn into Clover, April 6, 1856. His father, Luke Johnson, was a member of the first. Organized quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the L. D. S. Church.

The deceased was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, February 14, 1850, making him a few months over seventy years of age at death. Her has been an active worker in the Clover ward and has filled positions of responsibility and trust, including councilor to the bishop and an active teacher and worker in the Sunday School.

Funeral serviced were held in the Clover Ward meeting house Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Bishop R. N. Bush conducted the services. Musical selections were furnished by the ward choir, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Leo, Isgreen rendered two duets. Elder John G Ahlstrom offered the opening prayer. The speakers were Elders Nephi Draper, M, M. Stookey, Pres. A. J. Stookey and Bishop R. N. Bush. Each eulogized the well spent life the deceased. The benediction was offered Elder Asael Tanner.

Elder Nephi Draper offered the dedicatory prayer the. John Cemetery, where the interment took place.

The deceased is survived his wife, and eight children, four sons, Mark A., Raymond, and Edwin M., all of Clover, and Orson A. Jr, who resides in Wyoming, and four daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Smith, of Grantsvile, Mrs. Wm Russell, of Clover, and the Misses Leona and Phoebe who reside at home. He is also survived two sisters Mrs. Nephi Draper, of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Alfred St. Jeor, of Provo, and one brother, Luke, of Clover. Thirty-one grand children also survive him.

  Burial Notes:

Grave Location: St. John Cemetery, North Section
Source: Connie Hickman
Comments: Became close friends and respected by the Indians.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census, 1850, District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA.

2. Immigration, 1853, Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. ¹⁵⁷ Departing 1853 Council Bluffs, Iowa. Travel Company: Father Luke Johnson, Mother America Morgan Clark. Sister Susan Marinda, Charlotte Elizabeth. Brother Mark Anthony; Half-sisters Emily Susan, Sarah Eliza Virginia, Fanny Catherine, Vashtia Emilv; Half-brothers James Olmstead, Solomon Luke. On the Mormon Trail arriving 1853 Salt Lake City.

3. Immigration, 6 Apr 1856, Clover, Tooele, Utah, USA. ²⁵

4. Census, 1880, Clover, Tooele, Utah, USA. In 1880 he is listed as a laborer.

5. Census, 1910, Clover, Tooele, Utah, USA. In 1910 he was a general farm, owning his farm free of mortgage. They were living next to his son Edwin.

6. Census, 1920, Clover, Tooele, Utah, USA. In 1920 he was a farmer, owning his home.

Orson married Gertrude CHRISTENSEN on 31 Oct 1871.¹⁵⁷ (Gertrude CHRISTENSEN was born in 1850 in Norway,¹⁵⁸ died on 17 Feb 1938 in , Salt Lake, Utah, USA ^158,159 and was buried in St. John Cemetery, Rush Valley, Tooele, Utah, USA ¹⁵⁸.)