ID	First	Middle	Last	DOB	DOD	COD
116	John	L.	Johnson	N/A	11/5/1850	N/A

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
N/A	FALSE	N/A	Adams Street

lot	plot
N/A	R9 G5; broken, only date of death showing now

relations

Louisa L. Johnson (wife, d. 20 May 1853) Francis Johnson (son, d.? At age 1 yr) Charley E. Johnson (son, d. 21 April 1864)

comments

Rev. Johnson died before Berea kept records of burials and before there were local newspapers to report his death. His tombstone was transcribed in 1904 as "Rev. Jno. L., d. Nov. 5, 1850, ae 34"; in 1934 it was transcribed "Rev. Jno L Johnson, died Nov. 5, 1850, age ---". Jno was a common abbreviation for John. He was buried with or near Louisa L, his wife, and Charley E, and a fragment of a stone for his son Francis was nearby. A note on Jno.'s stone added "stone reset, age gone." In 2007, the top of the reset stone was broken off and missing, and his family members' stone were all missing or displaced. Jno. was not enumerated in the 1850 census in Middleburg; nor is he listed anywhere among the Methodist circuit riders who visited Berea regularly. There is no marriage license for him in Cuyahoga County, nor are there deeds in either version of his name. Don Labaj lists no additional information on him.

sources

E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934