Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-29
MRS. JoHNsoN's DEMISE.
Venerable Rock Island Lady Passes Away
Sunday Evening.

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Mrs. Louisa johnson, of 1854
Seventh avenue. died at S:45 p. m.
Sunday, following an operation for
the removal of n foreign growth
which threatened strangulatioa within
five or six weeks. This operation was
performed Tuesday. May %. and was
! in itself perfect, all being done that
was attempted, with rapidity and
precision, and with every safeguard
that the highest experience could re-
quire. The operating surgeon was
DR.. w. ID. Middleton, of Davenport,
and he was assisted by the surgeon in
charge. DIR. Emily S. Wright and Drs
Hill, Crawford, Hall and MCGOWAN.
Thursday, after the As hours account
ed as of the greatest danger, Mrs.
Johnson's symptoms were all salts
factory, and Friday she was so much
better that Miss Craine, the trained
nurse from St. Luke's. hospital, per-
mitted her daughter. Mrs. III. S.
Glenn, to enter the room and talk a
little to the patient. In the early
hours of Saturday, however, there
was change, an irregularity of the
heart, causing a pulsation of 40
beats to the minute, and thence for
ward there were periods of energy
and weakness that were partially re-
Elected in her breathing. Opiates
were administered to guard against
suffering, and after lingering for the
most part in an unconscious condi-
ton, her life ebbed away, death COM
ing to her in her unconscious condi-
ton.
Mrs. johnson was the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rymer, of
Hull, England, where she was born
in 1928. In 1874 she married Ben ia
min Drif1ill, maker of nautical in
struments, who came with his family
to this country in 1851, intending to
EN- bark extensively in this business
in New Orleans. The town was full
of yellow fever, however, when they
arrived, and they were forced to
leave the city. They came north on
a Mississippi steamer and located for
the time being in Davenport, where
Mr.. Driflill obtained remunerative en-
ployment as lumber measurer and
salesman, and where he died in 1854.
In 1855 blrs. Driffill married John F.
johnson, prosperous merchant of
w lO"d- W NUN ISL
and to live, and here, in 1890, Mr..
Johnson died. Mrs. johnson was the
mother of Thomas j.. Kate, Alfred.
Frederick, Emma and Louis Is. Driilill,
and of Frances Elizabeth and Will X.
Johnson The first three and the last
have gone before. Emma is now
Mrs. Joseph Eddy, who lives in
Boone, Iowa, and Frances Eliz' beth
is Mrs. Ii. S. Glenn, of Shafter, Texas.
All the survivors were with their
mother when she passed away, as
also WAS Walter johnson, one of her
stepsons.
The funeral is to be held from the
residence, 1854 Seventh avenue, Mt
1880 Tuesday afternoon. Friends
are requested not to send flowers.
John Schroeder, aged 81 years, died
yesterday afternoon at 1:45, of con-
sumption, at his home, 1886 First ave
nue.. Mr.. Schroeder was born in
Rock Island and is survived by his
wife and mother, Mrs. Emelia Schroed-
err, and four brothers, Joseph, Louis,
Daniel and Fred, and one sister, Mrs.
Edward Goeser. The funeral will be
held Tuesday, at p. M. from the
house, under the auspices of Camp
800, NJ. w. A, of which deceased was
a member.
Mrs. William Allen, an old settler
of Davenport, died this morning.