Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Johnston, Tom, 1947
Friday, August 4, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                           Death Claims Tom Johnston in San Antonio

  In the death of Tom C. Johnston in a San Antonio hospital Sunday morning, September 21,
the Hill country lost one of its best loved pioneers.  Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon, September 22, in the Kerrville Presbyterian Church with Rev. Paul S. Van Dyke
officiating.  Interment was in Glen Rest cemetery.  (Kerrville, TX)
  Active pallbearers were Chester Murr, Murr Hodges, and Slater Fleming of Junction,
Johnston Marsden of San Antonio, Charles Johnston of Austin, John Johnston, Burton Brown
and Joe Burkett, Jr., of Kerrville.
  Mr. Johnston was born in Scotland 78 years ago, and arrived in Kimble County, a city-
bred Scotsman at the age of 21.  He had been well educated before coming to America.
  Starting out as a roustabout on the N. Q. Patterson ranch, near Junction, the Scotch
youth soon became a bronc buster and a No. 1 ranch hand.  After roughing it for a couple
of years, he went to Junction and began working in the store of E. Holekamp; 1886 found
him the assistant postmaster at Junction and he later was employed by H. H. Allen & Co.,
pioneer Junction mercantile firm.  He then entered business for himself, operating a 
drug store in Junction for six years.  Meanwhile, he had served 12 years as Kimble County
treasurer.
  In 1901, the late Capt. Charles Schreiner employed Tom C. Johnston as bookkeeper for his
store at Junction.  Two years later he was manager of the store.  And in 1907 Captain
Schreiner transferred him to the Kerrville store as chief accountant.  On January 1, 1938, 
he voluntarily retired afater completing 37 years of service with the Schreiner firm.
  Four years after his arriveal in West Texas from Scotland, Tom Johnston was married on
December 13, 1888, to Miss Annie Murr at the ranch home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Murr, on Bear Creek in Kimble County.
  On December 13, 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston celebrated their golden wedding anniversary
at the home of their daughter, Mrs. William G. Garrett, and Mr. Garrett, Kerrville.
  Twice Mr. Johnston returned to Scotland to visit scenes of his youth.  His first trip
back was in 1914, and in 1935 he and Mrs. Johnston went abroad for a three month's visit
with his relatives.
  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Annie Johnston; two daughters, Mrs. William G. Garrett of
Kerrville and Mrs. E. T. Marsden of San Antonio; one son, Fordtran Johnston, Kimble County
ranchman; four grandchildren, Miss Mary Jane Garrett of Kerrville, Charles Johnston of
Austin, Johnston Marsden of San Antonio and Velma La Verne Johnston of Cleo; one great-
granddaughter, Mary Sue Howze of Kerrville; two sisters, Miss Kate Johnston and Mrs. 
George Oliver of Edinburgh, Scotland, and one brother, Dr. Samuel Johnston of Moffatt,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland.  A nephew, John Johnston, lives in Kerrville.
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