The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson with obituary. University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson. Page 51 begins the obituary of Enos E. Johnson. The narrow column text runs: Sacred to the memory of Dr. Enos E. Johnson. Born May 25, 1837 -- Died at Manatee, Fla. November 9, 1887. Age 50 years 5 months 14 days. Our peaceful village and a cheerful home are overcast by a cloud of deep gloom in the death of our friend and brother, Dr. Enos E. Johnson, one of our most useful citizens, who peacefully and quietly passed away this morning November 9th, 1887, after a short but severe illness from Typho-malarial fever. Amid the rising and flattering prospects for a comfortable and lucrative living, a happy and useful life; and while rapidly gathering around him all that he had so brightly anticipated as his ideal of his southern home at Manatee, the reaper, in an hour not looked for, enters his sickle and Brother Johnson, the devoted husband, the affectionate father, the enterprising citizen and Christian man is "Gathered up to his fathers." Thus it is that the brightest and most cherished earthly hopes that ever bloomed on the stalk of humanity are exposed to the fury of that dread storm which wilts and withers all in an hour. When Brother Johnson became a citizen among us he warmly identified himself with every interest of our Church and community that tended to elevate or give tone to society, and daily growing in the esteem and affection of the people as an active worker in every enterprise of the Church and community makes the loss deeply felt. From his interesting Home Journal we gather some notes relative to his [end of page] The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson. Page 51 begins the obituary of Enos E. Johnson. The narrow column text runs: Sacred to the memory of Dr. Enos E. Johnson. Born May 25, 1837 -- Died at Manatee, Fla. November 9, 1887. Age 50 years 5 months 14 days. Our peaceful village and a cheerful home are overcast by a cloud of deep gloom in the death of our friend and brother, Dr. Enos E. Johnson, one of our most useful citizens, who peacefully and quietly passed away this morning November 9th, 1887, after a short but severe illness from Typho-malarial fever. Amid the rising and flattering prospects for a comfortable and lucrative living, a happy and useful life; and while rapidly gathering around him all that he had so brightly anticipated as his ideal of his southern home at Manatee, the reaper, in an hour not looked for, enters his sickle and Brother Johnson, the devoted husband, the affectionate father, the enterprising citizen and Christian man is "Gathered up to his fathers." Thus it is that the brightest and most cherished earthly hopes that ever bloomed on the stalk of humanity are exposed to the fury of that dread storm which wilts and withers all in an hour. When Brother Johnson became a citizen among us he warmly identified himself with every interest of our Church and community that tended to elevate or give tone to society, and daily growing in the esteem and affection of the people as an active worker in every enterprise of the Church and community makes the loss deeply felt. From his interesting Home Journal we gather some notes relative to his [end of page] United States Florida--Manatee County--Manatee Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson with obituary.
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The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson. Page 51 begins the obituary of Enos E. Johnson. The narrow column text runs: Sacred to the memory of Dr. Enos E. Johnson. Born May 25, 1837 -- Died at Manatee, Fla. November 9, 1887. Age 50 years 5 months 14 days. Our peaceful village and a cheerful home are overcast by a cloud of deep gloom in the death of our friend and brother, Dr. Enos E. Johnson, one of our most useful citizens, who peacefully and quietly passed away this morning November 9th, 1887, after a short but severe illness from Typho-malarial fever. Amid the rising and flattering prospects for a comfortable and lucrative living, a happy and useful life; and while rapidly gathering around him all that he had so brightly anticipated as his ideal of his southern home at Manatee, the reaper, in an hour not looked for, enters his sickle and Brother Johnson, the devoted husband, the affectionate father, the enterprising citizen and Christian man is "Gathered up to his fathers." Thus it is that the brightest and most cherished earthly hopes that ever bloomed on the stalk of humanity are exposed to the fury of that dread storm which wilts and withers all in an hour. When Brother Johnson became a citizen among us he warmly identified himself with every interest of our Church and community that tended to elevate or give tone to society, and daily growing in the esteem and affection of the people as an active worker in every enterprise of the Church and community makes the loss deeply felt. From his interesting Home Journal we gather some notes relative to his [end of page]
The handwritten diary of E.E. and E.B. Johnson. Page 51 begins the obituary of Enos E. Johnson. The narrow column text runs: Sacred to the memory of Dr. Enos E. Johnson. Born May 25, 1837 -- Died at Manatee, Fla. November 9, 1887. Age 50 years 5 months 14 days. Our peaceful village and a cheerful home are overcast by a cloud of deep gloom in the death of our friend and brother, Dr. Enos E. Johnson, one of our most useful citizens, who peacefully and quietly passed away this morning November 9th, 1887, after a short but severe illness from Typho-malarial fever. Amid the rising and flattering prospects for a comfortable and lucrative living, a happy and useful life; and while rapidly gathering around him all that he had so brightly anticipated as his ideal of his southern home at Manatee, the reaper, in an hour not looked for, enters his sickle and Brother Johnson, the devoted husband, the affectionate father, the enterprising citizen and Christian man is "Gathered up to his fathers." Thus it is that the brightest and most cherished earthly hopes that ever bloomed on the stalk of humanity are exposed to the fury of that dread storm which wilts and withers all in an hour. When Brother Johnson became a citizen among us he warmly identified himself with every interest of our Church and community that tended to elevate or give tone to society, and daily growing in the esteem and affection of the people as an active worker in every enterprise of the Church and community makes the loss deeply felt. From his interesting Home Journal we gather some notes relative to his [end of page]
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