Johnson children & friends: Zwaantje, Cottie, Aggie Brown, Albert & Emily Stricker
Bill Palmer, son of Aunt Mart, writes the following family anecdotes:
"My mother said that when Grandfather had to verbally chastise any of his children, he always faced away from the child, preferably facing a corner."
"Grandfather could never understand why his Parkersburg house was smeared with yellow paint during WWI." (Lots of bigots in Parkersburg, you'd never know it from the names on tombstones.)
"Grandmother Johnson seemed (to me at age 5) to be a very forbidding "stern" person. She didn't laugh much as I recall. Perhaps her outlook that I remember was colored by the beginnings of abdominal cancer which was the proximate cause of her death in 1922; we'll never know. She was, however, an ice cream fiend, her ration was always one pint."
Jennie, Ginga, Henrietta (Johnsons)(on back of photo)
