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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Levi Johnson & Fanna Johnson

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From the U.S. Census and Family Stories:

1839 Levi was born November 6, 1839, in Hamilton, Van Buren County, Michigan

1843 Fanna was born February 3, 1843, in Andover, Allegany, New York

1860, Levi married Fanna V. Adams in Paw Paw, Michigan.

They lived in a log cabin on 51st St. in Hamilton Township.

1870 Residence – Lawrence, Michigan

1880 Residence – Lawrence, Michigan

1891 Property - They owned a great deal of property in Hamilton Township and made money farming and threshing grain in the area. They gave each of their children a large parcel of land and built a large, red, three story brick house on the same location as the original cabin. The house was built with a double row of bricks all around it and Great Grandmother Johnson helped lay the bricks.

Levi died in January 2, 1902 in Lawrence, Michigan

Fanna died in 1919

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