Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, John Horton, 1928 

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JOHN HORTON JOHNSON

Death Of John H. Johnson  

John Horton Johnson died at his home near Capron Monday morning, January 2, 
1928, at the age of 46 years, after a brief illness of three weeks duration. 
The son of James Johnson and Frances Lee, Mr. Johnson was born at Merry Hill, 
Bertie County, N.C., September 8, 1881, moving to Southampton County at the 
age of ten years, where he had been a resident since.  He married Miss Emma J. 
Smith, daughter of Mrs. Mollie J. Smith and the late Z.T. Smith. 

Mr. Johnson was an active member of the Boykins Masonic Lodge and the Odd 
Fellows Lodge of Capron.  He is survived by his wife, Emma Johnson, and by 
seven children: Gracie Horton, J. Marshall, Gladys, Frances, Alvin, Dalton and 
Clyde; by his father, James Johnson, four sisters, and two brothers, Mrs. J.R. 
Pulley, Mrs. H.L. Taylor, Mrs. C.B. Smith and J.E. Johnson of Roanoke Rapids, 
N.C., and C.L. Johnson, Mrs. Rillard Miles of Boykins and a large circle of 
relatives and friends in Virginia and North Carolina. 

The active pallbearers were: A.J. Jenkins, J.S. Fuller, W.C. Bryant, T.B. 
Bell, H.A. Gillette, J.W. Holland, F.E. Pope, J.W. Worrell, J.H. Barnes, 
T.W. Story.


John Horton JOHNSON, farmer, 
b. 8 Sep 1881, Merry Hill, Bertie* Co., NC, 
d. 2 Jan 1928, at home, near Capron, 
interred in Capron Cemetery**, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 6, 1928 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-21): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

His widow remarried, to Wm. Lewis WORRELL, but she is buried with John. 
   Her obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 21, 1957) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w640e1ob.txt 

The 1900 Census (Jerusalem Dist, Southampton) and the funeral notice for son 
   Alvin both give John H. Johnson, Jr. 

*His Death Certificate, #2206, gives b. Hertford Co., NC, son of "Jimie" and 
   Frances Lee Johnson. 


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