Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-09-30


George S. Johnson was born in
Rockport. New York, December &c,
1884. Part of his childhood was
spent in Toledo, Ohio. At the age
Of thirteen years he moved with his
mother to ST. Louis, Mo-, and very
shortly afterwards came to Grant
county, Wisconsin.
April %, 1855, he was united in
marriage to Miss Ann Bradley. To
the union was born eight children.
But three survive to mourn with their
venerable mother the death Of the be-
loved father which occurred at his
residence in South Lancaster at nine
O'Clock Sunday morning, September
13, 1914. Arminda and George E.
are at home and James A. the elder
son resides at Edgely, South Dakota.
Owing to delinquency in the delivery
of the telegram announcing the
demise of his father, James did not
arrive at home until after the burial.
There also survive five grand children
and one great grand child. Death
had come suddenly and evidently
without a pang just as he was
awakening from peaceful sleep,
causing a great shock to the family
and friends.
Mr.. Johnson had been until a year
ago a man of fine physical proportions
and health. He retained to a re-
markable degree an alertness of
movement and of mind. And only in
recent months did the expected feeble
ness of four score years become evil
dent. Even with the frail ties of
the flesh, the vigor of mind and
memory was still preserved. He
was conversant with all the earlier
history of the county-and knew
personally most of the prominent
men of those times. He had been a
man of enterprise in his neighbor-
hood-a neighborhood in which he
had resided for more than fifty years.
At the old homestead in Waterloo
township he had kept general store
for many years, and was for a long
time engaged in the hoop shaving
business on large scale.
He was. neighborly: man; up
right and honorable, and always
ready to assist fellow man. He
had the respect of@a wide :'acquaint-
ance, which was showneby the trib-
utes at his funeral,and the sympathy
extended to. the bereaved family. y.
In 1906 Mr.. johnson built the
home in South Lancaster to which he
removed with his. family. Here the
neighbors gathered on the morning
of Wednesday 18th inst. There was
brief but impressive service. Rev.
Beavin of the M. E. church of this
city reading beautiful and consoling
words from the 23rd psalm and the
18th chapter of John and speaking of
the hope in life beyond the gloom of
Deaths dark pail. The voices of
friends. joined in appropriate hymns.
The longer service was held in the
church at Burton whittier the beloved
remains were taken for burial.
Here there were drapings of sorrow
and many manifestations of the SYM
pathy and esteem felt for the family.
The aged widow was unable to at
tend. The floral offerings were pro-
fuse and very beautiful, prominent
among them being the sheaf Of rip
ened emblematic of the life
ripe for the harvest that had been
gathered in.
1--WE should not sigh for friends who've
gone
Home to the Fatherland.
Their weary pilgrimage is DER,
They've reached the restful strand,
They've left their sorrows far behind.
Their cares they have laid down
Where they have gone they quite forget
The weight of every frown.
Oh, happy state beyond the gloom.
Who would not enter in?
Who would not bid goodbye to earth.
It's sorrow and its sin?
If we have signs, or prayers, or tears,
Let these be freely given
To broken-hearted friends below,
Friends need them not in heaven
B. D, S.