Johnson, Jacob

Name: Johnson, Jacob
Burial Date: 1914, 06/12
Age at Death: 72
Plot Location: 427 C/D
Notes: Husband of Eliza Sabrina(Wilsey)

Civil War Soldier

 Jacob Johnson

Full obituary STERLING KANSAS 06/18/1914

(Killed by son-in-law)

Co. H, 12th Illinois Infantry, Co. H, 51st Ill. & Co. K.,4th  US Cavalry
War: Civil War

     Another of Rice county’s old soldiers has responded to the last roll call and is now in his final resting place.
     Jacob Johnson, son of Moses and Catherine Johnson, was born in Rock Island county, Illinois, July 20, 1842. He was reared upon a farm and early became familiar with the work necessary to its cultivation and improvement. He was thus engaged until his enlistment for service in the Civil War in April 1861, as a member of Company H, 12th Illinois Infantry. The call was for three months troops and he re-enlisted as a member of Company H Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, and served until September 1862. He then enlisted in Company K, 4th U. S. Cavalry and served to the end of the war.
     Mr. Johnson and Miss Eliza S. Wilsey were united in marriage in 1870. To this union were born eight children, four boys and four girls. He came to Rice county, Kansas, in 1871, proved up his claim and reared his family, where he was living at the time of his death, June 9, 1914. His devoted wife, one son and one daughter had preceded him to that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns.
     He leaves to mourn his death, three sons, three daughters, three brothers and two sisters, and a host of friends, neighbors and comrades.
     Funeral services were conducted Friday morning at the Christian church conducted by T. S. Cunningham, after which internment was made in Cottonwood cemetery.