Otto Alfred Johnson

  Research Notes:

Tammy Johnson FT
link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/60113092/person/140181713526/facts

Eggen Clark 1 FT
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/100825750/person/180107291651/facts?_phsrc=Pdr427&_phstart=successSource


Otto Alfred Johnson, b 12 Sep 1881, Knapp, Cokato Twp, Wright Co; died 29 Oct 1918, Knapp
married: 16 Apr 1910, Knapp
Alma Elvira Dahl, b 27 Mar 1891, Wright Co; died 20 Jan 1948 Minneapolis [remarried after 1925]
Children: [ see their research pages ]
[1]. Rudolph Maynard Johnson, b 20 Sep 1910, Knapp, Wright Co
[2]. Evelyn Ingrid Johnson, b 14 Nov 1911, Knapp Wright Co; died bet 1911 and 1920, Wright Co
[3]. Florence Beatrice Johnson, b 6 May 1912, Knapp

Alma's 2nd marriage: 21 Mar 1921, Meeker Co; to Walter L Johnson, b 18 Jul 1888 in Knapp; died 28 May 1959, Minneapolis


North Crow River Lutheran Church; image 288; and image 174
https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/imageviewer/collections/61584/images/47830_554910-00688?pId=31115639
also image 208 - records birth/baptism: Otto Alfred, b 9 Sep 1881 and
his parents: Lars Johnson and Maria Johnson with witnesses as Olof and Marta Christoffersson
- note that the Ancestry Family Trees record Otto's birth incorrectly as 18 Jul 1888

Otto Alfred Johnson, b 12 Sep 1881; married 16 Apr 1910; died 29 Oct 1918
Alma Elvira Dahl, b 27 Mar 1891, Knapp ; moved to Minneapolis in 1925; Married Walter L Johnson
son of Erick Johnson, b 1833 and a brother to Lars Johnson, b 1819
Rudolph Maynard, b 20 Sep 1910, Knapp
Florence Beatrice, 6 May 1912, Knapp
** and on image 174, Evelyn Ingrid b 14 Nov 1911
- Eggen Clark 1 FT records Evelyn Ingrid's death as 'before 1 Jan 1920' based on
1920 US Census, Dassel Meeker Co, ED 118; sheet 4B
line 67, Alma age 28 Widow, and recorded as sister in law to Alfred age 42 and
Hilma Nelson age 38 - likely Hilma is her sister
then son Rudolph age 9
and dau Florence age 7

image: 257: Otto A Johnson funeral - died on 29 Oct; funeral 30 Oct

WW1 US Draft Card, signed 12 Sep 1918
- records his birth as 9 Dec 1882

MN Probate Record: Otto A Johnson; actual images 1086-1136;; 27 Nov 1918
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9070/images/007668498_01157?pId=3266632
- land: E½SW¼, Sec 8, Twp 119N; Range 28; value of $8,000
- farm equipment; value of $3,000
- Alma E Johnson, age 27; son, Rudoph M, age 8; dau, Florence B, age 6
[ Note daughter Evelyn Ingrid b in 1911 is not recorded; thus she died bef Nov 1918 ]

- image 1119 - total value of estate (land, cash, equipment, etc): $17,703.81
[Otto also had partial interest in other lands - one half interest (100 acres),
two one third interest in 2 other pieces (60 acres; and a half acre)
- image 1127: brothers and sisters, August J Johnson, Nellie Ahlber, Ida C Ed,
Emma Wedin and John J Johnson

Alma E Johnson, obit: The Minneapolis Star, issue

Walter L Johnson, obit: Minneapolis Tribune issue 30 May 1959, p 7
- died at age 70
- father of Mrs Floyd (Florence) Engstrom; Mrs Robert (Elaine) Anderson
Rudolph M all of Minneapolis; a brother August E Johnson of Dassel [he was born 2 Feb 1874]


one FT notes marriage on 21 Mar 1921 Meeker Co
- MOMS .... cert Meeker Co, L 566; Walter Johnson and Alma Johnson

1940 US Census,

- wife of Walter L Johnson; mother of Mrs Florence Engstrom, Mrs Elaine Anderson*
and Rudoph, all of Minneapolis; 1 sister, 1 brother


1940 US Census, Minneapolis, ED 89-29; sheet 1A; line 20
Walter Johnson, age 52; grain shoveler
Alma, wife, age 49; Lab worker, Water dep
Rudolph, son age 29; Woolery Machinest
Elaine, niece, age 15 [1925] ***
- MN birth .. MNHS cert 1924-37845; 18 Sept 1924, Wright Co; mother - Dahl
Elaine Ida -

then North Crow Lutheran Church Records .. image 143
Anders Anderson Dahl b 1846 ... Sweden
Ingrid Ericksdotter b 1847 ... Sweden
Children: a number are recorded, with the 6th child: Ida Marg b 1879 and referenced to page 62 - image 174
and on image 174; Ida Maria Dahl b 11 Apr 1879 and married to Swan L Johnson b 1872
and then image 287
Swan L Johnson and wife Ida Maria who had died 1925
and then the youngest child:
Elaine Ida, b 18 Sep 1924 **
with the death of Elaine Ida's mother in 1925, Elaine Ida was taken in by her aunt, Alma E and her husband Walter L Johnson - see 1930 and 1940 Census: AND see, Alma Elvira Dahl page - she was first married to Otto A Johnson, 1881-1918 and so Swan L Johnson would be Elaine Ida's grandfather

Otto married Alma Elvira Dahl on 16 Apr 1910 in Wright Co, Minnesota, United States. (Alma Elvira Dahl was born on 27 Mar 1891 in Wright Co, Minnesota, United States.)