Copyright © 2004 Submitted by: Pamela Russell, This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Almont Herald February 27, 1913 Lapeer County, Michigan Taken in His Prime Hugh Stone Johnson, youngest son of James S. and Mary L. Johnson, died at the old homestead in this village Saturday morning, Feb. 22, 1913, after a week’s illness of peritonitis, aged nearly 38 years. Funeral services were held at the home Monday at one o’clock, Rev. Geo. P Endy officiating. Burial in the Almont cemetery. Huge was born March 10, 1875, in the room from which he departed this life, and in the home where the greater part of his life was passed. He was educated in the Almont school and except for brief absences in Detroit and Boston spent his boyhood and early manhood years on the farm. He was an ardent lover of nature and the attractions of city life could not lure him long from “The orchard, the meadow, the deep- tangled wildwood and every loved spot that his infancy knew.” He was married June 29, 1898, to Mattie E. DeMott, who with two children, Helen, aged nine years on the day of her father’s death, and Lee D. aged 5 years, are thus early bereft of a loving husband and father. Hugh had musical abilities of a high order and as a member of the Almont band for many years, has contributed liberally of his talents to the entertainment of their people of Almont and vicinity, by whom he was known and respected for his upright, honorable life, and loved for his friendly and jovial disposition. We know not why he should he taken from us in the prime of his useful life, while so many aged and decrepit long to go, but we bow to the will of our Heavenly Father with abiding trust that sometime we’ll understand. Two sisters, Mrs. D. M. Washer, of Imlay City, and Mrs. E.H. Browne, of San Francisco, and three brothers, Lee D., of Boston, Frank M. of Lowell and J. Carl, of Almont also mourn.--F.M.J.