Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Lou E. Johnson, 1944 

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LOU EMMA JOHNSON

   Mrs. Lou Emma Johnson, a member of a prominent Nansemond County family, 
died at a hospital in Suffolk, May 6, at about 1:40 p.m.  She was born at the 
family homestead at Myrtle, July 20, 1863, and was the daughter of James P. 
Johnson and his wife, Palmyra C. Person Johnson.

   On December 8, 1881*, she was married to her cousin, John Aaron Johnson, 
and they made their home in the vicinity of Suffolk.

   She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Emma Lee Gardner, Victoria; 
Mrs. Myra J. Carson, Caropolis, Penn.; J. Maywood Johnson, Sedley; Lewis R. 
Johnson, Suffolk, and Mrs. Anona J. Howell, Suffolk; 3 grandchildren, 8 great 
grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters; S. Bruce Johnson, Revedy 
Johnson and Mrs. Antonia Rose of Portsmouth and Mrs. Gypsy J. Wright of 
Suffolk.

   Her funeral was held Monday afternoon, May 9, at 3 o’clock at the West End 
Baptist Church with Rev. Samuel T. Habel and Dr. H.J. Goodwin pastor of the 
First Baptist Church, officiating.

   The pallbearers were: F.J. Oliver, A.C. Hingerty, J.R. Ellison, Jesse 
Williams, H.H. Powell, M.L. Bowden, James T. Shephard, and John Henry Powell. 
Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Lou Emma (JOHNSON; Mrs. Jno. Aaron) JOHNSON, 
b. 20 Jul 1863, Myrtle, d. 6 May 1944, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 117**), Suffolk, 9 May 1944, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 19, 1944 

**Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 

Her parents are buried in a MATTHEWS family cemetery, at Archers Mill & 
   Old Myrtle Rds. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. I, 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

Her father's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Feb. 25, 1903, p. 2) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j525j32o.txt 

*Ancestry.com & FamilySearch.org "Virginia Marriages" give m. 29 Dec 1881. 

Aaron was the son of John P. & "Sallie" Sarah A. (PRUDEN) JOHNSON. 


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