Bennett Martenous Johnson

  Research Notes:

1. Daniel Haglund database ... ancestry.com

- contains some detail information (dates, etc) for Bennett, wife and family BUT does not site sources
- Elsworth, wife Lucille with 6 children living (no names provided) - 1 male
- Ivan with first wife lists 4 children living - males; no children with second wife
- Marvin with wife Margaret - two children living; 1 male

== ++ Nancy Thiex data base ... ancestry.com: indicates Bennett had two wifes - only Bertha P, born 1900 listed with 2 children unnamed; second wife not named with 3 children all unnamed


2. 1920 US Census, Osakis, Douglas Co, MN

- Bennett and wife, Bertha P, age 19 <1901> in MN; ++ Haglund database lists her as Beatrice Pauline Meinstad
- Bennett works as a Machinist for a wage in a Garage
- owns home
- son, Elsworth L, age 1 and 5 months, born in MN

3. 1930 US Census, Osakis, Douglas Co, MN

- Bennett, wife, Elsworth, Ivan M, age 9 and Marvin, 8
- value of house $1500; owns
- works for wage as Machanic in a garage
- also listed is Bennie O Dahl, a cousin (to head of household), age 30, born in MN, father in Sweden, mother in Norway; works as a mechanic in a garage for wages

4. US WW I Draft

- age 21 <1917>
- indicates employer as Theo Bjerken, Osakis, MN
- father's address as Long Prairie ²⁹⁷⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Osakis, Douglas Co, Minnesota, United States. ³¹³³

2. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Osakis, Douglas Co, Minnesota, United States. ³¹³⁴

3. Military Service, WW I Draft. ³¹³⁵

Bennett married Beatrice Pauline Meinstad. (Beatrice Pauline Meinstad was born in 1900 in Minnesota, United States and died on 16 Aug 1965 in Minnesota, United States.)