"The Journal-Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Apr. 21, 1927, p 1. Gilbert H. Johnson, son of Thomas and Anna Tanner Johnson, was born in Berlin, Wis., April 21, 1849, and died at his home in Farina, Ill., April 6, 1927, within fifteen days of his seventy-eighth birthday. Of the nine children which comprised his father's family, only one, Mrs. Ardelia Morton, of Blooming Prairie, Minn., survives. When about twenty-three years of age, he took up a homestead in the North Loup valley, near North Loup, Neb. Here he met Gertie Witter to whom he was married July 23, 1877. In 1881 they moved to Nortonville, Kans., where they resided on a farm for twenty years. Upon selling the farm, they moved to Gentry, Ark., thence to Milton and Milton Junction, the past seven years being spent in Farina, Ill. On his mother's side, Mr. Johnson was of good old Seventh Day stock, a descendant of Deacon John Tanner, a goldsmith who prepared the Tables of the Law, which hung above the pulpit in the historic Newport, R. I., Seventh Day Baptist church. It is reported that when a British officer would have stabled his horses in the building, the discovery of these Tables of the Law saved this building from the desecration to which the other churches were subjected. While at North Loup, Mr. Johnson was converted at a revival meeting conducted by Rev. C. M. Lewis and was baptized by Elder Oscar Babcock, pastor of the church at that place. He was in turn a loyal member of the churches at Nortonville, Gentry, Milton, Milton Junction, and at the time of his death a member of the church at Farina, which church was organized by the man under whom he was converted. He is survived by his wife, one sister and numerous nephews and nieces. He had no children. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders