LEWIS CHAPMAN & ANNETTE ESTELLE (HERBERT) JOHNSON

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Lewis Chapman Johnson Husband of Annette Estelle Herbert

Annette Estelle Herbert Johnson

"Beloved wife of Lewis C. Johnson"

Myrtle Violet Johnson daughter of L.C. & A. E. Johnson

Herbert Pernell Johnson, son of L.C. & A.E. Johnson

Mary Magdalene Johnson, daughter of L.C. & A.E. Johnson

Lewis Chapman Johnson, the son of Joseph S. Johnson & Eliza Mattingly Johnson, was born on August 28, 1859 and died on January 1, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Annette Estelle Herbert on December 15, 1885 at the bride's home. Annette Estelle Herbert was born on June 17, 1864 and died on October 9, 1905 in Huntersville, Maryland. She was the daughter of Washington Herbert and Susan Higgs Herbert.  Both are buried in Old St. Joseph's RCC Cemetery. Ms. Hammett in her book "History of St. Mary's County Maryland" has a listing for a Lewis C. Johnson as postmaster of the Hunterville Post Office with a date of appointment of July 5, 1900.

Patricia Conner writes this about Lewis Chapman Johnson:

After the death of Annette, the children were placed in the homes of different relatives until Chapman established a home in Baltimore and sent for them.  Living with relatives was very hard on the children, especially Lee.  Chapman settled on Calvert Street in Baltimore and opened a confectionary store on Chase St.  After Leonard Clark married Eva Johnson, they lived above the Chase Street store and took care of the family.

Here is the moving obituary written for Annette Estelle Herbert by Lewis Chapman Johnson:

In the sad but loving remembrance of our beloved one, Annettie E., beloved wife of Lewis C. Johnson of Mechanicsville, Maryland, who died October 6, 1905 in the 42^nd year of her age:

 "When cruel death wrenched from our grasp the noblest treasure of my home, so early in the bloom of womanhood was she, so tenderly had been her family cares with her beloved ones, which she fastened with the chain of her affectionate hopes that the Master has severed it in two and fastened it to the proud place which she has won.  But there came a voice -- it was the voice of her God -- "I love Thee, I love Thee, pass under the rod; and yet this is a bright, glad, beautiful world, fragrant with the odor of flowers, tuneful with the songs of birds, resplendent with the glories of earth and sea and sky; and yet its attractions now are not noticed, for that grim, merciless death has appeared in our midst and snatched form my companionship my beloved one, the joy and pride of my home, and all that I had is gone, leaving me and seven children to the merciless world, and in our hears there is a cadence of despair and gloom and sorrow.  Indeed the world seems emplty and cheerless to me, and I my hear there is a dreary, dismal, aching void.

The only consolation that is vouchsafe is the sweet realization of the fact that my darling is at peace.  The one whom I have lavished my affection is now in that land "Where the weary are at rest."  Bending over the open coffin, looking at the folder hands which will never clasp mine again in this world, gazing upon the closed eyes in which I will never see my image reflected on this earth, the scaling tears fell as I realized that my earthly companionship with her is forever at an end.  But there is consolation that my heart's idol has heard the words From the Father's lips, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of My love."  The poor, worn frame will never be racked with the agonies of pain -- her suffering is at an end and it will only be a little while when I shall cross the dark river and join her among the hosts of loved ones on the other shore."

Peaceful be thy slumber,

Peaceful in the grave so low;

Thou no more will join our number,

Thou no more our sorrows know

Or again we hope to meet,

When the day of life is fled,

And in heaven with joy to greet Thee,

Where no farewell tears are shed.

Children were:

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F  O  O  T  N  O  T  E  S

[1] Died in infancy.  Born July 16, 1890 and died October 9, 1890.  Infant son of Lewis C. Johnson and Annette Herbert Johnson.  Buried in Old St. Joseph's RCC Cemetery.

[2] Born October 1886 and died February 2, 1926, age 39 years.  Daughter of Lewis C. Johnson and Annette Herbert Johnson.  Buried in Old St. Joseph's RCC Cemetery.

[3] Born June 30, 1902 and died July 5, 1902.  Infant daughter of Lewis C. and Annette Herbert Johnson.  Buried in Old St. Joseph's RCC Cemetery.