Newell, Margaret^[1]

1869 - 1947  (77 years)

• Name	Newell, Margaret
  Born	27 May 1869	Ashland, IL.
  Gender	Female
  Died	Apr 1947	Norfolk, NE.
  Buried	Holy Cross Cemetery; Colfax County, NE.
  Person ID	I9640	Wuerdemann Family
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2017

  
  

  Family	Johnson, Gustav,   b. UNKNOWN, ? ,   d. 1929, ?
  Married	1892	Illinois
  Children	+ 1. Johnson, Oliver,   b. UNKNOWN, ? ,   d. UNKNOWN, ?   2. Johnson, Oliver,   b. UNKNOWN, ? ,   d. UNKNOWN, ?
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2017
  Family ID	F3285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  _P_CCINFO 2-14330 From THE LEIGH (NE.) WORLD, April 4, 1947- Mrs. Margaret Johnson, a former resident of the neighborhood southeast of Leigh, died in the state hospital, Norfolk, where she had been cared for since her health failed 18 years ago. She broke her right hip in a fall on February 17 and had been bedfast since that time. Funeral rites were held at Schuyler from the Bideaux Mortuary to St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. Pallbearers were family friends, Ed. Asche, John Riley, Gus Hahn, Edward Waters, Adolf Zoubek, and John Godel. Burial was in the Holy Cross Cemetery. Born at Ashland, Illinois, on May 27, 1869, she had reached the age of 77 years, nine months and 29 days. She grew to young womanhood in Illinois and taught three years in the public schools before her marriage to Gustav Johnson in 1892. They came to Nebraska and Colfax County in 1893 and lived near Schuyler several years before moving to the farm three miles southeast of Leigh. In 1926 they retired from the farm and moved to Schuyler. Mr. Johnson died in 1929. Survivors are one son, Oliver Johnson, and one grandson, Oliver jr. She also leaves three brothers, John Newell, age 90 years, and William and James Newell, twin brothers, age 85 years, of Ashland, Illinois, and one sister, Mrs. Kate Halligan, age 83 years, of Jacksonville, Illinois. A brother, Thomas, and a sister, Mollie, preceded her in death. [ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW] From THE LEIGH (NE.) WORLD, April 4, 1947- Mrs. Margaret Johnson, a former resident of the neighborhood southeast of Leigh, died in the state hospital, Norfolk, where she had been cared for since her health failed 18 years ago. She broke her right hip in a fall on February 17 and had been bedfast since that time. Funeral rites were held at Schuyler from the Bideaux Mortuary to St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. Pallbearers were family friends, Ed. Asche, John Riley, Gus Hahn, Edward Waters, Adolf Zoubek, and John Godel. Burial was in the Holy Cross Cemetery. Born at Ashland, Illinois, on May 27, 1869, she had reached the age of 77 years, nine months and 29 days. She grew to young womanhood in Illinois and taught three years in the public schools before her marriage to Gustav Johnson in 1892. They came to Nebraska and Colfax County in 1893 and lived near Schuyler several years before moving to the farm three miles southeast of Leigh. In 1926 they retired from the farm and moved to Schuyler. Mr. Johnson died in 1929. Survivors are one son, Oliver Johnson, and one grandson, Oliver jr. She also leaves three brothers, John Newell, age 90 years, and William and James Newell, twin brothers, age 85 years, of Ashland, Illinois, and one sister, Mrs. Kate Halligan, age 83 years, of Jacksonville, Illinois. A brother, Thomas, and a sister, Mollie, preceded her in death.

  
  

• Sources

  ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW Date of Import: 3 May 2008 ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW Date of Import: 3 May 2008 ColfaxDeutschlandPlatte.FBK.FTW Date of Import: 3 May 2008.