Mary Gilman Gray

  General Notes:

Ken Gray notes:
MARY GILMAN GRAY (Daniel, George, John, George, James ) was born in Munroe county, Ohio 4^th march 1834; died at Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa 12^th Sept. 1895; buried in the Pennington cemetery ; married at Lancaster, Iowa 30^th April 1855, Charles Albert Johnson. She was a member of the Christian church. Charles Albert Johnson was born in Yester, Sweden, 8^th May 1825; died at Sigourney, Iowa 16^th Aug., 1902 and was buried beside his first wife Mary G. (Gray) in the Pennington cemetery. He came to the United States about 1844, at which his name was Johanas Karl Albert Nurdquist; in the United States he eventually found this name to be cumbersome and inconvenient and therefore made the change to Charles Albert Johnson. He is said to have been a first cousin to the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lynn. He served in the Union Army as a private, three years and four months, in the late Civil War, in company D, 13^th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He married a second time but we have no records of his marriage; no children by this second marriage.
Children born to Mary and Charles in Lancaster, Iowa. :-
(1)Charlotte Buel Johnson, b. 27^th Feb. 1856; m. Lory Miller in 1881, and died of Consumption, 20^th Jan.1891; buried in the Pennington cemetery near Lancaster. Iowa. Children :- (i) Sheldon Miller, (ii) Albert Miller, (iii) Mary Miller.
(2)Hannah Jeannette Johnson, b 28^th Aug. 1858; m. at Arora, Kans., 30^th april 1878, Theadore Harrison Ragan, also of Lancaster, Iowa; died at the home of his daughter Nellie Maud (Ragan- Toohey) Switzer, in Buena Vista, Colo. 6^th march 1916. She receives a common school education at Lancaster, Iowa and later completed a correspondence course of Journalism, Authorship and Short Stories. She united with the Seventh Day Adventist church in 1889, and was engaged in missionary work for several years in the western states. She was teaching school as early as 1890. She had :-
(i)Bernard Ragan, b. 18^th July, 1877 in Blue River, Neb.; d. same day.
(ii)Elton Elroy Ragan, b. 27^th July, 1880 at Sutton, Neb.
(iii)Nellie Maud Ragan, b. 29^th Nov. 1882 at Sappaton, Kans.; married 1^st, at Cripple Creek, Colo. , 21^st July 1903, Edward W. Toohey of Chateauguay, N.Y.; married 2^nd , near the close of 1915 or Jan. 1916, C.O.Switzer of Buena Vista, Colo. She had by her 1^st husband. :-
(a) Martin Edward Toohey, b. 8^th may, 1904; d. 25^th July 1907; buried at Leadville, Colo.
(b)Opal Estella Toohey, b. 17^th Oct. 1905; d. 10^th April 1908; buried ,Leadville, Colo.

(c)Hazel Thelma Toohey, b. 25 Nov. 1906.
(d)Earl Weldon Toohey, b. 1^st Nov. 1908.

Child by her second husband, C.O.Switzer.;-
(e) Kenneth Dudley Switzer, b. 6^th June 1917.
(iv)Weldon Venor Ragan, b.16^th Oct. 1884 at Atwood, Kans.
(v)Weltha May Ragan, b. 23^rd Nov. 1886 at Quickville, Kans.; m. 14^th Nov. 1906, at Leadville, Colo., Albert David Fletcher, and had (1916);
(a) Gladys Evie Fletcher, b. 7^th March 1910 at Golden, Colo.

(3) Alice Lovina Johnson, b. 10^th July 1860; d. in March 1914; m. at Lancaster, Iowa, 5^th Sept. 1875, Charles Bentley Pike. She was a member of the Christian church, and for some years prior to her death she lived in Lancaster, Kans. Charles Bentley Pike, son of Charles and Maria (Sollers) was born in Burlington, Iowa. He was a farmer. Children:-
(i)James Sanford Pike, b. 3^rd March 1878 in Lancaster, Iowa; d. 22^nd Sept. 1878.
(ii)Daisy Dee Pike, b. 23^rd Nov. 1879; d. 19^th Sept. 1881.
(iii)Tra Ernest Pike, b. 6^th Feb. 1883 at Kraft, Colo; m. 5^th Feb 1898, at Effingham, Kans., Nellie Martha Calhoun. They had (1916) :-
(a) Irene Mary Pike, b. 19^th Dec. 1908 in Lancaster, Kans.
(b) A son, b. 14^th Nov. 1910; d. same day.
(c) Charles Kenneth Pike, b, 22^nd May 1912 at Everest, Kans.
(iv)Roy Ulysses Pike, b. 13^th Aug., 1885 at Kraft, Colo; m. 6^th march 1906 at Lancaster, Kans., Mary Ethel Rust. Children born in Lancaster, Kans. (1916).
(a) Lola Mattel Pike, b. 24^th Nov. 1906; d. 12^th Jan. 1907.
(b) A son, b. 3^rd June, 1909; d. same day.
(c)Roy Milton Pike, b. 14^th Aug. 1911.

(4) Albert Percy Johnson, b. 29^th May. 1862; m. 9^th july 1891, at Sigourney, Iowa, Viola may Passig.
He graduated M.D. at the Iowa State Medical College, in Iowa City in 1886, and at Missouri Medical College, and at the St Louis Post Graduate College in St Louis, Mo. in 1891. He is (1916), and has for quite a number of years, been practicing in Sigourney, Iowa and the surrounding country. In 1912 he was in the employ of the state of Iowa, delivering lectures at different places over the state on the subject of tuberculosis. He has a beautiful home in Sigourney, and to all appearances is in a prosperous position.
Viola May Passig was born 9^th May 1865 at Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa. She is a daughter of Henry F.D. and Kate (Keller) Passig, and was educated at the State Normal School in Iowa City and taught school for some time.


Child of Dr. Albert Percy and Viola (Passig) Johnson :-
(i) Alcuin Passig Johnson, b. 4^th Sept. 1893 at Sigourney, Iowa; He was attending the Morgan Military Academy in Chicago, in 1912.
(5)James Birdseye Johnson, B. 9^th Aug. 1865; living unmarried, (1915) in Bishop, Calif. following the occupation of blacksmith and teamster.
(6)George Johnson, b. 17^th June 1867; d. 20^th June 1867.
(7)Emma Johnson, b. 23^rd Sept. 1872; d. 25^th Sept 1872.
(8)Swan Elam Johnson ( called "Elam"), b. 22^nd May 1875; m. at Washington, Iowa, 21^st Aug., 1900, Laura May Reighard, who was born in Talleyrand, Iowa 24^th Sept 1881.
Children :-
(i) Vernalda Beatrice Johnson, b. 16^th Feb., 1902 at Talleyrand, Iowa.
(i)Nina Locena Johnson, b. 4^th Sept. 1904 at Talleyrand. Iowa
(ii)Mary Rosemond Johnson, b. 17^th Feb. 1907 at Doublin, Iowa.
(iii)Charles Gerald Johnson, b. 30^th March 1909 at Doublin, Iowa.
(iv)Karl Albert Johnson, b. 30^th June 1912 at Doublin, Iowa.
(v)Elam Johnson, B. 1914.

Mary married Charles Albert Johnson on 30 Apr 1855 in Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa USA. (Charles Albert Johnson was born on 8 May 1825 in Yester, Sweden.)