Show PIONEER TRAIL BLAZER BLAZ ERDIES DIES SOM set jo johnsoni Johns pioneer trail binder bin zer of at southern ut utah died at lila ills homo lie tile in Catiti onville 0 on n december Dece nibe r 22 1927 had find ho it hyed 11 ve 1 I until march maich G no would havo have been ninety years old mr johnson Johi ison was tho the grandfather of claude johnson Joh naon tho the great grand father of keith owen and father in law of MM alm ed owen ho 1 the persecutions of tile the tal sni As is as aa a child having leon been born in ili carthage Cart hago illinois ile ho otton often told lilb ills children anti grandchildren of having been told held on oil the knee of tho the prophet joseph smith at the ago age of nine lie he drove an all ox 0 team across tho the plains arriving in ili salt baku october 19 1818 1848 tile the fam family ily wore were called 1 by Drig hain young to 1 help tell settle iron county in december 1850 settling nt at carowan parowan Parow Pa rowan nn hla his first wife was lydia ldla ann smith of parowan carowan ile he made a trip across tile plains after emigrants before ills hla marriage in As a h order border of the common coin nion grazing ground between cedar and parowan carowan Pa rowan mr air johnson learned earned the indian language from an indian herder and was waa often called to act as interpreter ile ho also wrote it a dictionary of the alio indian language one copy of which was owned by the mother of george woodhouse lie he was affection nIly called by the Ind indians lans meaning medicine Ale dicino at man an for many years lie ho taught school although lie ho was in reality a self belf edu abed man for twenty five years lie he served as bishop later being ordained a patriarch in ili 1864 mr air johnson moved to virgin city in ili dixie where in lie married jano jane stratton n polygamous wife at virgin lie he acted as justice of 0 the peace and was also county superintendent still 0 in of schools the fain family lly moved to panguitch in ili 1872 and in 1886 lie ho colonized a little settlement south of cannonville Cann onville known as georgetown there lie ho taught school and was made bishop of tho the ward mr air johnson held tile tho record of having missed but one of forty nine stake conferences lie attended tile the dedication of three temples the st george logan salt lake and lie labored in the manti aland temple ire ile knew kne w personally every president of tho the L D S church and many of the apostles ile he served thirty seven years in the state militia and in halt half a century taught 37 terms of school for many years lie he supplied druggists throughout southern utah with goods lie he himself had put up with his first wife lie he made trips tr I 1 p S to t deaver bea V lie he bringing a supply of drugs tor for the market while mrs johnson Jo linson brought hundreds of pounds of cheese which site she exchanged for woolen goods from tile the beaver beaven woolen mills then in operation mr air johnson was tile the father of twenty five children nineteen of whom survive him both wives died a number of years ago |