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reunion, August 5, 1956:
"Elizabeth Johnson, one of ten daughters of Archibald Johnson, born 
in Vitenford County, Tennessee, Feb. 10, 1805, died at Roseburg, 
Oregon, Aug. 18, 1886, 81 years old. She left a heritage to her 
descendants that is truly outstanding. We can all be proud of her.

. . . Living on a farm, or ranch, with ten children, and a part-time 
preacher husband, was a real problem for Grandmother. Few 
cultivating tools, little, if any money from the contribution box, 
buying clothes and necessities, was really something. Grandmother 
with the help of the three older boys and five girls, sheared sheep 
for the wool for their clothing, washing, spinning and weaving, and 
hand sewing. Trading eggs for groceries.

This went on until 1847, when the three older boys were ready to 
leave for the Oregon Country, where they were told was good hunting 
and fishing. Nathan had married Frances Greshen in the meantime, and 
Grandmother figured it would be better for all of them to go. So in 
early spring of 1848, they started out with two wagons, two yokes of 
oxen, cows, chickens, pigs, and three or four horses. The covered 
wagon days, traveling ten or twelve miles a day, they joined a wagon 
train at Mississippi Crossing, and after six months coming in over 
the Barlow Trail, they wound up at Oregon City, where they lived 
through the winter of 1848 and 1849."


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