The Family Files of Darryl and Jemalee (Johnston) Adams
Notes for Mittie Oren SEYMOUR
Obituary of Mittie Oren Johnston
First wife of James Andrew Johnston.
Copied from the Houston Newspaper
Mittie 0. Johnston. Died at the family home in this city, of consumption, at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, May 3, 1911. Mrs. Mittie Oren Johnston, wife of Dr. J. A. Johnston, after a sickness extending through the past year or more.
Mrs. Johnston was born is Sangamon county, Illinois, May 2, 1875, making her age at death one day more than 36 years. She was married to James A. Johnston in Wright county, MO, March 24, 1894, and with her husband moved to Texas county in 1897.
Five children resulted from this union, one being dead, four, with the husband, being left to mourn the loss of an affectionate mother and wife.
Mrs. Johnston was a member of the Christian church and was at all times faithful and devoted to her Christian duties. She was also a member of the Eastern Star and of the Knights and Ladies of Security, carrying an insurance policy of $1000 in
the latter order.
Deceased was always recognized as one of the kind and good women of our community, ever ready with words of kindness and deeds of charity, E"the golden key which open the palace of eternity." No greater tribute could have been paid to the memory
of the dead than the great concourse which filled the Christian church Thursday afternoon to listen to the funeral services conducted by Elder W. J. Frost, and followed on foot and in carriages to the cemetery where the remains were laid in their
last resting place. The Ladies of the Eastern Star had charge of the services, decorated the church with beautiful flowers and evergreens, marched in procession from the hall to the residence, from residence to church and from church to cemetery.
The Knights of Pythias were also in procession. A very beautiful song service was rendered both at the church and at the cemetery.
Thus is another home stricken, another husband and children mourn for the one who made home so happy and cheerful - the wife and mother. May the Allwise Father in his infinite mercy and tenderness shield and direct the little ones in the path of
right as the mother would have had them travel and comfort and console the sorrowing husband.
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