BIO: Thomas F. Johnson, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 200-201.
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  JOHNSON, THOMAS F., was born in Danbury, Conn., August 28, 1825, and 
died at Litchfield, Bradford County, Pa., March 11, 1874.
  He was converted at about fifteen years of age under the labors of 
Rev. William Bixby, and immediately joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  The Candor Quarterly Conference subsequently gave him a local 
preacher's license.  He was a servant of the Church in the capacity of 
local preacher more than twenty years, frequently serving as supply 
under the presiding elder.  In 1872 he joined Wyoming Conference on 
trial, and was appointed to Herrick, on the Wyalusing District.  
Returning from a visit with his family to friends in Candor, on 
Wednesday, March 11, 1874, he handed the lines to his wife, saying, as 
he did so, "I feel faint."  Arriving at the house of Mr. Alanson Munn, 
he was assisted into the house, where he died in about thirty minutes, 
of heart disease.  He was thus suddenly taken away but a short time 
before he would have been admitted into full membership in the 
Conference.
  His funeral services were held in the Candor church, Rev. N. S. 
Reynolds preaching the sermon, and his body was laid in the Candor 
cemetery.