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Updated: 07-19-2021 05:07:73.


Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. John Otis Johnston: Birth: 2 JUL 1901 in Toledo, Lucas Co, Ohio. Death: 31 JUL 1978 in Atlantic City, Atlantic Co, New Jersey

  2. Mildred Johnston: Birth: ABT 1906. Death: BEF 1910


Sources
1. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1900; Census Place: Toledo Ward 2, Lucas, Ohio; Page: 21; Enumeration District: 0034
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
2. Title:   Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952
Page:   Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 163; Film Description: 1922 Kent - 1922 Muskegon
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
3. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1910; Census Place: Toledo Ward 3, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: T624_1208; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0047; FHL microfilm: 1375221
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
4. Title:   U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
5. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Washington, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: T625_1407; Page: 20B; Enumeration District: 192
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
6. Title:   Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;
7. Title:   Ohio, Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2007
Page:   Certificate: 89229; Volume: 16366
Author:   Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
8. Title:   1940 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1940; Census Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03258; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 95-38
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
9. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1930; Census Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: 1833; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0019; FHL microfilm: 2341567
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;

Notes
a. Note:   Family said her name was Rosella and called her Rosie, but all legal documents have her name as Rose. She was sensetive about marrying by the time she was 17. At some point she began listing her birth date a year earlier than it actually was. The 1900 census taken on June 1 of that year records her as 16 years old, indicating birth in 1884. Her marriage license records her age as 18 on 4/26/1901, (consistent with being born in 1883) and she gave birth 26 days latter.. That was the date she used most often although the 1930 census indicates 1884.
  Rosie was born in a small house on Whiteford Center Road, just north of Consear Road, in Whiteford Township. She grew up speaking French and learned English after starting school. She told many stories of growing up on the family farm. They often were visited by local Indians and they served corn mush to their visitors as a gesture of hospitality. She told of seeing the family sleigh covered with frost for the first time and her brother got her to lick it by telling her it was covered with ice cream. They had to pour water on her tongue to free it. They went to St. Joseph's Church each week in Erie, about 8 miles away. In the spring when the roads were muddy, her father put four or five kids on the back of a big farm horse to take them to church. In her youth, she worked as a cook in Point Place, Ohio, a small peninsula just south of the Michigan-Ohio state line about three or four miles from Erie. She had a reputation as a great cook and often received tips sent to the kitchen. She bought a house at 412 Austin Street, with a loan from her uncle Mose. She took in her son and his wife and later raised her grandson while his mother worked. At 41, she thought she was too young to be a grandmother and so she was Aunt Rosie to her grandson and then Grandma Rosie to her great-grandsons. She prepared large family meals every Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's for the rest of her life. She died at home in her sleep at age 76.
  In 1959, our family moved into the new house we built in Lambertville, Michigan. The house was in a small subdivision, consisting of a single short street off Secor Road, being developed by Robert Rader. He started with his own house and then built one for his wife's parents across the street. We built next to that house. Shortly after we moved in, Grandma Rosie came out to visit and see the new house. The mail boxes were on the corner and she noticed right away that the box next to ours was for J.O. LaBarge. She said "I know a Jimmy LaBarge. He's my cousin and he lived in our house from the time his parents died until he went out on his own at the age of 16." She walked right over, taking me with her, and knocked on the door, which was answered by Dorthy LaBarge. She asked if they knew Jimmy LaBarge and Dorthy said "He's my father-in-law and he lives here with us." So Rosie and Jimmy had a reunion after not seeing or hearing of each other for almost 60 years.
  The LaBarge's grandchildren were new playmates in our new neighborhood. Figuring out the degree of kinship with the Rader family was my first genealogical research and it stimulated me to pursue it.
  Later on, Robert and Mary Lou (LaBarge) Rader took me in when I got back from Vietnam in 1969. My father had died several years earlier and my mother remarried while I was in the Army. The Raders had extended the street and built a large house at the end. Randy, their oldest, had died of leukemia while I was in the Army also. When I came home, I had nowhere lined up to stay and they asked me to move in with them. I lived in their house until the following spring.
  --Michael Lawrence Johnston
  1930 census 4/3/1930
 Ohio, Lucas County, Toledo
 Enumeration District 48-19
 # 412, Dwelling 37 Family 35
 Rose Johnston, Head of Household
 Owns house, value $2800
 White, age 46, Single (widow)
 First married at age 17
 born in Michigan
  Other Residents:
 Relation Name Color Age Birth Place
 Son Ottis J. W 28 Michigan Driver for Wholesale store
 Daughter(-in-law)
 Anna M. W 28
 (Grand)son Lawrence W 6
  1940 United States Federal Census
 Name: Rose Johnston
 Respondent: Yes
 Age: 57
 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883
 Gender: Female
 Race: White
 Birthplace: Michigan
 Marital Status: Widowed
 Relation to Head of House: Head
 Home in 1940: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
 Street: Austin Street House Number: 412
 Inferred Residence in 1935: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio
 Residence in 1935: Same House
 Sheet Number: 2B
 Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 39
 House Owned or Rented: Owned
 Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 2000
 Attended School or College: No
 Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 6th grade
 Weeks Worked in 1939: 32
 Income: 480
 Income Other Sources: No
 Household Members:
 Name Age
 Rose Johnston 57
 Anna Johnston 37
 Laurence Johnston 16
 

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