{"id":5,"date":"2008-11-09T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2015-11-23T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:16:02","slug":"about-john","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About John"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name:<\/strong>
\nJohn Johnson, probably something else in Sweden. Maybe Johan, Johannes, Jonas or Jon. The last name could have been one of these names with -sson after.<\/p>\n

Born:<\/strong>
\nAbout 1864. According to his son: November 15, 1864. The 1900 U.S. Federal Census<\/a> says that he was born in\u00a01865 and\u00a0was 34 years old when this\u00a0was written in June 1900.<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong>
\nSweden, don’t know exactly where. Some say the county of Halland.<\/p>\n

Family in Sweden:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Since this first was written I have found out that\u00a0John was the son of Jonas Jonasson Eldh and his wife Bengta J\u00f6nsdotter. John’s name in Sweden was Johannes Jonasson Eldh. He had three brothers, Carl, August and J\u00f6ns Peter. J\u00f6ns Peter had 11 children and two of them died\u00a0when their house\u00a0burned down.\u00a0August went to America to but moved back and died in Sweden. Carl\u00a0lived 1930 in White Plains, NYC. He\u00a0had \u00a0seven\u00a0children.\u00a0\u00a0The man, Gust, that is buried in Lafayette Cemetery can be John’s wife’s brother who I know moved to them in California in 1901.<\/p>\n

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The text Before I found the family:<\/p>\n

I don’t know much about them. Some say that John should have had four brothers and that he was the second-youngest. The father should have been a blacksmith . I have heard that the house his family lived in burned down. A Gust Johnson is mentioned in some documents. This should have been John’s brother. A man called\u00a0Gus Johnson <\/a>was buried\u00a0in the\u00a0Lafayette Cemetry in\u00a01929.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emigrated from Sweden:<\/strong>
\nAccording to the 1900 U.S Federal Census<\/a>, John came to Pennsylvania, USA in August 1892.<\/p>\n

Married:<\/strong>
\nNovember 19, 1898 in Oakland, California. You can see the marriage license here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dead:<\/strong>
\nOctober 3, 1907 in a tunnel which connects Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. The\u00a0Oakland Tribune newspaper\u00a0had an article October 4, 1907 <\/a>about his being kicked to death by his horses. the Contra Costa Gazette had an article Oct 12 <\/a>the same year about the same accident. My great grandmother, John’s daughter, told me that John was robbed and killed. If this is true they may have discovered this later on. She told me that those who\u00a0killed him\u00a0were arrested soon after\u00a0and\u00a0were sentenced to\u00a0eight years in prison. Some say that they were hanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Name: John Johnson, probably something else in Sweden. Maybe Johan, Johannes, Jonas or Jon. The last name could have been one of these names with -sson after. Born: About 1864. According to his son: November 15, 1864. The 1900 U.S. Federal Census says that he was born in\u00a01865 and\u00a0was 34 years old when this\u00a0was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropp.se\/johnson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}