In 1905 Annie Johnson, her two children and a sick husband came to Dickens County from Hunt County, seeking a cure for T.B. Anyone that had tuberculosis, the doctors would tell them to travel. In 1907, her husband died. She was left to raise the two children. Mrs. Johnson worked very hard in the field. Nuge, her son was old enough to plow the crop, but the hoeing was done by Eva and their mother. In the fall when the crop was ready to be gathered, she was in the field early, picking cotton.
She was good to the sick and often went miles to help and take something to eat that she had baked and to spend the lonely nights with them.
Mrs. Johnson was a strong methodist and was united with the church when she was twenty four years of age. She always attended the Quarterly conference at the church, and if she was not there, you would know she was sick.
Her son, Nuge, served ten years as County Commissioner for Precinct No. 2, Eva her daughter married Paul Braddock, and still lives in the East Afton Community. Mrs. Johnson lived to be 95.
Funeral services were held Tuesday in the Afton Methodist Church for Mrs. Annie Williams Johnson, 96. Rev. William McReynolds, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Spur, officiated, assisted by Rev. Mrs. Marion Apple, Wolfforth.
Mrs. Johnson died in Spur Memorial Hospital on January 28, 1963, following a lengthy illness. Born in Georgia, she married J.E. Johnson in 1884. She had resided in Afton since 1906. She had been a member of the Methodist Church since 1908.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Eva Braddock, Afton and three grandchildren.
Interment was in Afton Cemetery, Campbell´s Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, January 31, 1963
Transcribed by Kay Laster
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