Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Edward C. 1917
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Lyons Herald, 15 Mar 1917

Edward Johnson, aged 76 years, and a veteran of the Civil War died suddenly 
Sunday morning.  He was in good health, but complained of a pain in his lungs 
Sunday morning when he awoke.  Later he felt better and got up built the fires, 
and his wife found him sitting in a chair unconscious.  She summoned the son 
and grandson, but death came before medical aid arrived.

Edward C. Johnson was born in Savanah, Wayne county, N.Y., February 21, 1841.  
During his childhood the family moved to Illinois, and a few years later to 
Michigan, settling on a farm two and a half miles south of Lyons.

August 6, 1862, he enlisted in Co. D., 21st Michigan Infantry, and served 
through the Civil War, taking part in the campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee; 
the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga, and then 
participating in Sherman’s March to the Sea.  He was honorably discharged June 
8, 1865.

On October 22 of the same year he was married at Portland to the companion who 
survives him.  They lived upon the farm until 1887 when they moved to the 
village of Lyons, which has been his home until his death which came so 
suddenly Sunday morning, March 11, 1917, at the age of a few days over 76 
years.  He leaves beside his wife, one son, Louis, and a grandson, Edward.

Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Geo. A. Brown 
officiating.  Interment in the Lyons cemetery.


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