Embree William Johnson

1877 - 1960  (83 years)

• Name	Embree William Johnson
  Birth	4 Feb 1877	Halcott Center, Greene, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Feb 1960	Blakely, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Burial	Halcott Center, Greene, New York   [3]
  Person ID	I59085	Scudder
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2016

  
  

  Father	Martin Johnson,   b. 3 Mar 1843, New York d. 6 May 1891 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Esther Ann Scudder,   b. Jun 1844, New York d. 1913, Middletown, Delaware, New York (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F21165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha M. Ward,   b. 28 Aug 1890, Pennsylvania d. Aug 1973, Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1913
  Children	1. Tyrell Glenard Johnson,   b. 23 Mar 1915, New York d. 10 Apr 2003, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas (Age 88 years)   2. Embree William Johnson, Jr.,   b. 1918   d. 10 Jul 1987, Muscogee county, Georgia (Age 69 years)   3. Margaret Esther Johnson,   b. 30 Mar 1921, Margaretville, Delaware, New York d. 4 Dec 2004, Edgewater Park, Burlington, New Jersey (Age 83 years)   4. Russell Ward Johnson,   b. 7 Apr 1926, Margaretville, Delaware, New York d. 2 May 2012, Jackson, Madison, Tennessee (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F6329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Embree and his wife Martha had left a farm in Millbrook (where the Kelly Hollow trailhead is today), and moved to Dunraven, then to Margaretville, before buying the Carpenter house for $4,100. He was an express and mail carrier between the D&N Railroad and the local post offices and businesses. The Johnsons raised four children in the beautiful house on “Gill Hill Avenue” (as Church Street was known c.1930): Tyrell, Embree, Jr., Margaret (Mead) and Russell. The house, set regally on a small hill surrounded by tall pines, had a slate roof, a fountain on the grounds, and a circular staircase. Leonard Utter, whose grandmother was a sister to Martha Ward Johnson, said, “It was a palace to me.” Howard Etts, Jr. remembered that Embree Johnson, Jr. was a violinist who often practiced in a den that had been set up in a garage behind the house. Both Embree and his sister’s husband, Percy Mead, served in WWII. Martha inherited her family’s home in Olyphant, Peensylvania, and the Johnsons moved there in 1946, selling the village house to a couple named Apert of New York City.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1348] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. [S1269] Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963, Certificate: 16380. [S1329] Find a Grave Index, 1600s to Current.