Obit: Johnson, William #2 (1886 - 1917)

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Surnames: Johnson, Brooks, Crothers, Washburn

----Source: Granton News (Granton, Clark County, Wis.) 08/17/1917

Johnson, William #2 (12 AUG 1886 - 13 AUG 1917)

Telegrams from Geo. Brooks at Morristown, S.D. last Friday advised relatives here that his son-in-law Wm. Johnson had been taken suddenly and alarmingly ill with Cerebral Meningitis that day, was no better on Saturday, was worse Sunday, and died before noon Monday, Aug. 13th, 1917.

Deceased will be remembered by our readers as the husband of Beatrice Brooks, whom he married 4 years ago last November. He is survived by his wife and their one child, little Evelyn, two years old. Deceased, before his marriage, lived at Oxford, Wis., and was a brother of Mrs. Geo. E. Crothers of Neillsville. She, upon receipt of the sad news of his alarming illness, took the train for Morristown, but did not arrive there until after his demise. A letter from his mother-in-law, Mrs. Geo. Brooks, to Mrs. R.T. Washburn in Lynn, received last week, told of plans she, with Mrs. Earl Brooks and Beatrice, had for a double birthday surprise party which was to have been given deceased and his brother-in-law Earl Brooks, last Sunday, Aug. 12th, when deceased would have been 31 years old.

News of the sudden and untimely death of this exemplary young man caused grief in many homes in this vicinity on Monday. The universal sympathy of the whole countryside hereabouts goes out to his bereaved family and near relatives.