Violet (Bevan) Johnson
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Violet Jane (Bevan) Johnson (1872 - 1933)

Violet Jane Johnson formerly Bevan
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 1 Oct 1891 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory, United Statesmap
Died at age 60 in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, Californiamap
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Biography

Violet Jane Bevan was born 8 Oct 1862 in Tooele county, Utah Territory, United States to parents Mr. James Bevan and Mary Shields Bevan. [1]

Abia E. Johnson married Violet Jane Bevan 1 Oct 1891, Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States. [2] [3] Violet and Abia Johnson had the following children:

  • Abia Ezekiel, Johnson, Jr., 1892-1915
  • William Wallace Johnson, 1894-1962
  • Primrose Johnson, 1895-1983
  • James B. Johnson, 1897-1925
  • Gordon Derby Johnson, 1900-1923
  • Juana Cadwallader Johnson, 1909-1998
  • Jane Johnson, 1914-2013
  • Leila Johnson, 1917-1998

Abia was a polygamist and also married Harriet Ford. Harriet was born 27 May 1893, Kanab, Kane Utah, United States to parents Edwin Mantripp Ford and Ellen Elizabeth (Bunting) Ford. Harriet Ford Johnson passed away 11 April 1986 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona at the age of 103 years. Like so many of these LDS pioneers she was buried at Greenwood Memorial Lawn cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.

Year 1893: Migration of the Johnson's and other allied families from the Utah Territory to found the planned community of Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico. Colonia Diaz resided about 13 miles due South of bordertown Columbus, New Mexico.

The Mexican Revolution: Destruction of Colonia Diaz colony by Poncho Villa in 1913 and return to the United States.

Violet Bevan Johnson passed away 22 March 1933 while she was living in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County, California at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dwight Smith of Huntington Park and was buried in her town of birth the Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele county, Utah, USA.[1]

Research Notes
Bevan is a Welsh name. Does this family trace back into the early Pennsylvania Quakers?

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Utah State Historical Society, comp., Utah Cemetery Inventory, 1847-2000. Sexton Records / Grant; Grave location: 8-7-2. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.Reprinted online by Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000, Provo, UT., USA. Online access 17 Feb 2020.
  2. Utah, Marriages, 1887-1966. Reprinted by FamilySearch, FHL Film Number: 488399; Reference ID: P 3382013. pub 2013, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Reprinted by Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, Provo, UT., USA. Online access 17 Feb 2020.
  3. Web: Western States Marriage index, 1809-2011: BMD. Western States Marriage Index. Brigham Young University–Idaho. http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm. Reprinted by Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, Provo, UT., USA. Accessed 17 Feb 2020.
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNS2-Y7S : 14 November 2020), Voilet Beven in household of Alvin Walters, Tooele, Tooele, Utah Territory, United States; citing enumeration district ED 75, sheet 64C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,338.
  • "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8PK-WS1 : accessed 14 December 2020), Violet B Johnson in household of Abia E Johnson, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; citing , sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll ; FHL microfilm .
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH6V-ZPV : accessed 14 December 2020), Violet B Johnson in household of Abia E Johnson, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 74, sheet 11A, line 9, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2421; FHL microfilm 2,342,155.
  • "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG27-B1S7 : 9 December 2020), Violet Bevan Johnson, 1933.
  • Find a Grave, database and images memorial page for Violet Jane Bevan Johnson (8 Oct 1872–22 Mar 1933), Find A Grave: Memorial #97319, citing Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA ; Maintained by Dale Clawson (contributor 47102803). Accessed 27 Apr 2022.




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Bevan-1158 and Bevan-1003 appear to represent the same person because: Same name; birth date should be 1872. See census record and findagrave.
posted by Anon Langdale

Rejected matches › Violet Johnson (1874-)

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