Johnston, Joetta

1892 - 1948  (55 years)

• Name	Johnston, Joetta
  Birth	9 Dec 1892	Kentucky   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	JOHN.J012
  _FGRAVE	106043055
  Death	23 Oct 1948
  Burial	GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois
  Person ID	I26284	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	27 May 2023

  
  

  Family	Edens, Lester,   b. 30 Jan 1887, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois d. 24 May 1954, Clark County, Illinois (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Children	1. Edens, Mildred R.,   b. 1912, Illinois   2. Edens, Alberta,   b. 4 Oct 1915   d. 3 Oct 1996 (Age 80 years)   3. Edens, Kathleen,   b. 1916, Illinois   4. Edens, Carroll Lester,   b. 13 Jul 1923   d. 16 Jun 1992 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F11311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 9 Dec 1892 - Kentucky Burial - - GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Mrs. Edens Dies at Allerton Homer Enterprise Thursday, October 28, 1948, page 1 Mrs. Lester Edens, 55 died at 1 p.m. Saturday at her home three and a half miles north of Allerton. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Homer Methodist church. Rev. R. E. Buford officiated. Mrs. Lawrence Rowand played organ music and the Egly sisters sang. Rev. J. E. Long, Sullivan, Ill., assisted Rev. Buford. Burial was in GAR cemetery. Joetta Johnson was born Dec. 9, 1892, in Kentucky, and came as a child to Clay county. She was married June 21, 1910, and in 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Edens moved to the present farm. She was a member of the Clay City Methodist church. Surviving are her husband and six children, Mildred, at home; Mrs. Alberta Ritchey, Hume; Carol at home; Mrs. Norman Newman, Covington, Ind., and Doris and Donald, at home. She also leaves a grandson, two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Gray, Olney, and Mrs. Carlie Saunders, Peoria, and an aunt, Mrs. Elsonia Blacklidge, Clay City. She was preceded in death by two triplet sons who died in infancy. (Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)

  
  

• Sources

  [S208] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois, Enumeration District 3, Page 7B, (http://search.ancestry.com/content/viewer.aspx?dbid=6061&iid=4300174_00621&sid=&gskw=) (Reliability: 2).