Ninth Generation

184. Carr Otis JOHNSON was born on 30 October 1881 in Tunnel City, Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.^36,138,139 He died on 27 December 1907 at the age of 26 in Tunnel City, Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.^6,76,138,139 (He may have died in Wauwatosa, WI.) He was buried in Tunnel City, Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.⁷⁷ in the Greenfield Township Cemetery.

Carr Otis JOHNSON and Celia May HESER were married on 1 May 1902 in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.^{59,138,140,141}

Newspaper Article: "A social event of more than usual importance took place at the home of Mr. Fredrick Heser in Pleasant Valley, Thursday evening, May 1st, when the nuptial know was tied that united Mr. Carr Johnson and Miss Celia Heser.

Both young people were born, raised and attended the schools in this vicinity and are well known and beloved by all. The bridegroom has since school days been a mail carrier on the rural mail route that goes to Pleasant Valley from Tomah and has won the respect and good will of the community. He is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Johnson of Tarr Valley.

A large company of relatives and friends gathered in response to the nearly two hundred invitations sent out. At about 7:30 to a wedding march played by Miss Inez Purdy the contracting parties, supported respectively by Mr. Fred Johnson and Miss Myrtle Dickson, stepped under an arch and wedding bell arranged artistically in one corner of the room. The bride was very prettily arrayed in sage green, trimmed with white silk and appliqué and carried white flowers. Rev. C. E. Butters gave the vows, noted the responses and pronounced them husband and wife.

After congratulations all repaired to tables tastily prepared by Mrs. Kate Purdy, of Tomah, and enjoyed a bountiful wedding dinner. One room was literally filled with the presents that seemingly included everything useful and ornamental to start housekeeping with. Among the guests from away were Misses Foote, of Sparta; Mrs. Leonard Dickinson, of Loone, Missouri; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morse, of Warrens; Mrs. Boehm, of La Crosse; and Mr. and Mrs. Wiklund, Amens, Dickson and Purdy and Mrs. Tillie Johnson, all of Tomah.

Mr. and Mrs. Carr Johnson, after a short honeymoon in La Crosse, will make their home in the residence in Tomah where Mr. Spence formerly lived which Mr. Johnson has purchased. May prosperity and happiness be their portion." Celia May HESER, daughter of Frederick HESER and Emmeline Josephine PURDY, was born on 19 November 1883 in Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.^98,139,142 She appeared in the census in 1930 in Oakdale Township, Monroe County, WI.⁸⁷ She died on 27 April 1949 at the age of 65 in Dane County, WI.^98,142,143 Celia was buried in Tunnel City, Greenfield Township, Monroe County, WI.^132,143 in the Greenfield Cemetery.

Carr Otis JOHNSON and Celia May HESER had the following children: