Hancock County GaArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, Frances Mansfield February 24 1897
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The Washington Post, February 27, 1897
MRS. FRANCES M. JOHNSTON DEAD.
The Wife of Col. R. M. Johnston, the Author, Passes Away
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 24. - Mrs.Frances Mansfield Johnston, wife of Col. Richard 
Malcolm Johnston, the Southern author, died this morning at the family 
residence 1732 St. Paul street. Mrs. Johnston's death was due to a complication 
of diseases. She had been in poor health for some time. The end came peacefully 
about 11 o'clock, with her husband and two daughters, Ruth and Effie, standing 
at her bedside.
     Mrs. Johnston was born in Sparta Ga., April 4, 1829, and was the daughter 
of Eli Mansfield, a prominent merchant of that town. Mr. Mansfield had come 
from New Haven, Conn., married Miss Nancy Hardwick, of Georgia, and settled in 
Sparta. Col. and Mrs. Johnston were married when the latter was only fifteen 
years of age and Col. Johnston only twenty-two. 
Their golden wedding was celebrated on November 26, 1894, by a public reception 
extended to them at the Lyceum Theater in this city. This reception was 
attended by many noted literary men and women, and letters were read from 
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Dudley Warner, Edward C. Stedman, James Whitcomb Riley 
and others.

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