The Story of Robert Lewis Johnson

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Census Data and Stories from Family

Born July 4,1867, in Hamilton, Van Buren County, Michigan.

1870 Residence Lawrence, Michigan

1880 Residence Lawrence, Michigan

1890 Age 23 – Marriage to Lenna Corwin

1900 Residence Lawrence, Michigan

1910 Residence Lawrence, Michigan

1920 Residence Lawrence, Michigan

1926 – “Robb” built a white wood house with a porch around it and it had a dumb waiter. He also built a white house in Lawrence with a stone porch around it. It is located near the park in Lawrence. They lived in town briefly.

1926 – Death of first wife Lenna

1927 - Marriage to Grace Graham

1929 - Robb owned a lot of land and made his money threshing and farming. He was listed on the New York Stock Exchange during the Great Depression, about 1929, with over a million dollars. He invested in oil wells from a guy in Texas. When his wife Lena was alive, she wouldn’t let him mortgage the land, but after she died he married a woman named Grace and what he didn’t lose to the oil man , the stock market and, and the sawmill business she took in the divorce.

1942 – Robb was in the barn at Rex’s house milking the cows. He suddenly threw up his arms and said, “I’m gone”, and he was. He and Lenna are buried in the Hamilton Township Cemetery along with his father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother.