Salmine Marie (Samuelson) Johnson (1861 - 1920)

Born 10 Jul 1861 in Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Danmark

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Died 7 Jul 1920 at age 58 in St. Paul, Howard County, NE

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Biography

From obituary for Mrs. Chris Johnson^[1].

"Marie Salmine Samuelson was born July 10, 1861, in Skallerup Parish, near the City of Hjorring, Denmark. In 1884 she emigrated to America, arriving in St. Paul, Nebraska, in April of that year. She was united in wedlock to Christian Johnson on February 15, 1885, in this city. This union was blessed with two sons and four daughters: James of Cleveland precinct; Anna (Mrs. William Hood) of Logan precinct; Minnie (Mrs. Lee Morse) of St. Paul; Christian Otto, at home; Edith (Mrs. Harrison Morse) of St. Paul; and Marie, at home. They all, together with the husband, survive her.

"During the first few years Mr. and Mrs. Johnson lived in this city, until they had realized sufficient savings from the proceeds of their labors to purchase the forty acres east of the river which now owned by John Miller. After devoting several years of thrift and industry in the development and improvement of this little farm, they disposed of it and purchased a larger one, the T.G. Bartlett homestead farther down the valley, where they have lived and labored the past twenty-five years, and have builded a comfortable home and farmstead.

"Mrs. Johnson's health began to fail rapidly in 1917, and the insidious in-roads of disease reached a climax late Wednesday evening, July 7, 1920, when her life departed peacefully and quickly during an attack of failing heart actions.

"Mrs. Johnson was baptized, reared and confirmed in the Lutheran church of Denmark, and the pure and simple Christian faith thus early instilled into her soul remained the sure and consistent guiding star of her life to its close and into eternity. Her devotion to the church of her childhood was loyal and beautiful. She never missed an opportunity to enjoy its services. During the fifteen years Pastor Pedersen conducted divine services here in the Danish language, she and her husband were unfailing attendants, through storm or fair weather.

"Mrs. Johnson was a quite, unassuming and dignified character with a tender mother heart which will be sorely missed by devoted children and husband whose sorrow is shared by a wide circle of friends who had learned to esteem and value this departed friend for her sterling worth and kindly and sympathetic character.

"Most fitting and appropriate memorial services were conducted at the M.E. church Saturday afternoon by the pastor, the Rev. Marvin M. Long, attended by the entire family and relatives and a large concourse of sorrowing friends. The funeral procession accompanied the caskets to the final resting place in Elmwood cemetery."

Sources

1. ↑ "Mrs. Chris Johnson Expires Last Wednesday", Howard County Herald, St. Paul, Nebraska, July 15, 1920, Page 1

• Christening 10 Nov 1861 Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark record no. 4 [1]

• Census 1 Feb 1870 Sønderlev, Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark [2]

• Confirmation 23 Apr 1876 Sønderlev, Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark record no. 1 [3]

• Census 1 Feb 1880 Sønderlev, Skallerup, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark [4]

• 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18