Henry Johnson home, Parkersburg, Iowa
Grandpa and Grandma Johnson moved to Parkersburg, Iowa, where they are buried. Their daughter, Zwaantje Holtzman, wrote on the back of this picture postcard (from her sister Gert): "Our home at Parkersburg. Fathers-Mothers. A very comfortable home and so many good times." (from a lengthy 1935 letter, from Zwaantje to daughter Ruth, recollecting many past days) "When we lived in the West End [Sterling, 1913], Mother had a birthday Oct. 12. 70 years. Pa wrote--Come--I wrote couldn't take girls out of school, and I was busy sewing for them. Then some day soon after that... Willilams, the mailman stopped, gave me a letter, out dropped a check. Pa said here's money for you-the girls. Come--your mother is 70 years only once. You see, she had lost her Mother long before that. Her dad lived with them. You-Dorothy-I went [to Parkersburg]. It was a great time we had, all were there. That Home always celebrated all the birthdays, all the anniversaries of the whole family, children--grandchildren. All were baptized at Home. Is it any wonder Bro. Henry wrote after Mother left us a year later than Father that he missed his daily walks-talks to Mother-Daddy's home. After our home was broken up, the sisters couldn't write without mentioning home.