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, d. 2 Jan 1928, age 76, obituary, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 6 Jan 1928] 

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