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Eliza R. Johnson, dau. of William Johnston & Rosa Callan was my great-great
grandmother.
"Obituary Eliza R. Johnson, second daughter of William and Rosa Johnson was born
near Mt. Carroll Nov. 17, 1852 and died in Shannon, Ill. Jan. 18, 1929 aged seventy-six
years, two months and one day.
On Jan. 1, 1871 she was united in marriage to Henry Hoy; they settled on a farm north of
Mt. Carroll where they moved to a farm three fourths of a mile northwest of Shannon.
Six children were born to this union: Amanda Parker, DanielS., Una Moll, Charles W.,
Edna Sturtevant and Harvey H. Her husband died in 1915; a few months later death claimed
her daughter, Mrs. Moll, and the following year Chas. W. was called also...."
I have newspaper obits for Martha Amelia Johnston, Wallace Johnston and Miss Marina
Johnston (all children of William and Rosa). I also have several other Johnston Obits,
but don't know yet how they all tie together. I was told William paid for nephews to
come to American from Scotland. There are alot of Williams.
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