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Note: Hester Ann Jackson Johnson 1834-1859 Hester Ann Jackson was born September 29, 1834, in Knox County, Ohio. She was the daughter of William Jackson and Louisa Caroline Knowles. Little is known of her life until she met a young man, a convert to the LDS church by the name of Jarvis Johnson, and fell in love with him.
There is no written record of Hester's parents joining the church in those early days, but there are copies of blessings dated February 11, 1844, for both.
Jarvis had joined the church in his early youth and was at Council Bluffs in April 1846 when Captain James Allen came into camp asking for men to go with the Mormon Battalion to Mexico. Jarvis volunteered and marched away as the youngest member of the Battalion. When their duty was done and they were discharged in California, Jarvis and his companions made their way to Salt Lake City, rested there for a time, and then traveled back to the Missouri River where their families were waiting.
Jarvis was eager to see his sweetheart Hester who was anxiously awaiting his return. They resumed their courtship and were married August 5, 1849.
Jarvis had received a land grant from the government at Savannah, Missouri where he and Hester built a home. They became the parents of five children: Mary Charlotte, born 14 December 1850, in Nauvoo, Missouri; Melissa Caroline, born 19 February 1853, in Savannah, Missouri; Lucia Johnson, born 5 April 1855, in Savannah, Missouri; William Lean, born 27 January 1857, in Otto County, Nebraska; and John Henry Johnson, born 29 January 1859, in Nebraska.
Hester was a devoted wife and mother, happy in her prairie home with her young family. She died at the young age of 24 in Nebraska City on May 11, 1859.
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