Mary Matilda Johnson

Female 1855 - 1873  (18 years)


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  • Name Mary Matilda Johnson 
    Born 1855  Monroeville Twp, Colusa, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died 1873  Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I8708  Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark
    Last Modified 11 Jan 2014 

    Father William Robert Johnson,   b. 22 Feb 1816, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jan 1899, Hamilton, Butte, Idaho Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Tharp,   b. 6 Mar 1825, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1906, Cheney, Spokane, Washington, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 1846  Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F2418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Frederick W Wentz,   b. Abt 1850, Alsace Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 17 Mar 1871  Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Children 
    +1. Dora E Wentz,   b. Feb 1873, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2014 
    Family ID F2425  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Mar 1871 - Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 1873 - Oregon, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 1855 BIRTH: CA,Colusa Co-Monroeville Twp: Mary Matilda Johnson bn 1855

      1860 CENSUS: CA,Colusa Co-Monroeville: Anc Img 13 pg 449,7-18,Dw 337,286: Mary M Johnson age 6 bn California, dau of William and Elizabeth Johnson

      1870 CENSUS: OR,Umatilla Co-Pendleton,Willow Creek Prec,14 June,Dw#101: Mary M Johnson 15/CA, dau of William and Elizabeth Johnson

      1871 MARRIAGE: OR,Umatilla Co-Pilot Rock: Mary Matilda Johnson md F. W. Wentz 17 Mar 1871, 1 child: Dora Wentz bn 1873 in Pilot Rock (md Stephen Pollock abt 1901, 1 son Herald or Herbert Pollock-she may have dd at childbirth)
      Another sheet in Joyce Spaulding's information: "#18710005: Birch Creek Feb the 21.1871. To the Clerk of the County Court of Umatilla County. Sir you will please grant Lisence to W F Wentz To marry Mary Matilda Johnson. William Johnson"
      Another sheet: "The State of Oregon, Umatilla County: ss F W Wentz
      and
      Mary M Johnson
      W H Johnson being duly sworn, depose and say that I know Mary M Johnson; that she is a resident of the County of Umatilla... that she is over the age of 15 year to wit: about 17 years; and that there is no legal impediment to the Marriage of said Mary M Johnson and F W Wentz a resident of Umatilla Co Oregon, a white person over the age of twenty-one years. Signed W H Johnson ... March 1871, and Signed by James M Moore, County Clerk

      above from Joyce Spaulding pg 2 Fam Group Record 4/1997


      ORD: FS IGI 2-04: Mary M Johnson md to J. F. Wentz 2 March 1871, Umatilla Co OR SS: 6 May 1993 JRiver, submitted by member after 1991

  • Sources 
    1. [S191] Family Rcds: SPAULDING,Joyce Johnson.
      "Mary Matilda Johnson was bn 1855, Colusa Co, CA. Monroeville Twp"
      July 1997 letter from Joyce, family group record in possession of Pam Wagner

    2. [S191] Family Rcds: SPAULDING,Joyce Johnson.
      "William Robert Johnson md Elizabeth Thorp in 1846, Peoria,Peoria,ILL"
      July 1997 letter from Joyce to Pam Wagner

    3. [S191] Family Rcds: SPAULDING,Joyce Johnson, pg 2.
      "FW Wentz md Mary Matilda Johnson 17 March 1871 in Pilot Rock,Umatilla,Oregon"
      April 1997 letter from Joyce, family group record in possession of Pam Wagner

    4. [S230] Oregon: State Marriage Rcds, Lic #18710005.
      "State of Oregon, County of Umatilla: This is to certify that the undersigned, a Minister of the gospel, by authority of a License bearing date of ... day of March AD 1871 and issued by the County Clerk of the County of Umatilla did, on the ... day of March 1871, at the house of the undersigned in the County and State aforesaid, join in lawful wedlock [looks like J F Wentz] of the County of Umatilla and State of Oregon, and Mary M Johnson of the County of Umatilla and State of Oregon with their mutual assent, in the presence of Nicholas Harper and Carline Harper, Witnesses. Witness my hand, signed, Ahira Sanford"
      Copy of marriage certificate from Joyce Spaulding, April 1997, to Pam Wagner