IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
117LouisaL.JohnsonN/A5/20/1853N/A

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR13 G2, almost illegible inscription on east face of romanesque white marble plinth; possibly displaced from lot 24 where the 1934 transcription placed her. Also, William Johnson bought lot 39 1/2, so she may belong there. Or perhaps we misread the stone.
relations
Rev. Jno. L. Johnson (husband, d. 5 Nov. 1850) Francis Johnson (son, d. at age 11 mo.) Charley E. Johnson (son, d. 21 April 1864)

comments
Rev. Johnson and his wife died before Berea kept records of burials and before there were local newspapers to report their deaths. Her husband died in 1850 at age 34, and she bought his lot. Her tombstone was transcribed in 1904 as "L. Johnson, wife of Rev. Jno. L. Johnson, d. May 20, 1853, ae 32"; in 1934 it was read "Louisa L., his wife, died May 20, 1853, age 32." She was buried with or near her husband and Charley E, and a fragment of a stone for her son Francis was nearby. In 2007, a fragment of her husband's stone, showing his date of death only, and a base that once held a white marble tablet stone, are all that marks the family plot. A stone possibly belonging to Louisa, with a very faint inscription "L----" and "J-----" was found on lot 35. Her husband 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 them in Cuyahoga County, nor are there deeds in either version of his name. Don Labaj lists no additional information. No census information could be located conclusively on William Johnson, purchaser of lot 39, nor on Charles Johnson, her son who died in 1864.

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