Charles Albert Johnson

  General Notes:

Ken Gray notes:
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.

Charles married Mary Gilman Gray, daughter of Daniel Gray and Deborah Dudley, on 30 Apr 1855 in Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa USA. (Mary Gilman Gray was born on 4 Mar 1834 in Monroe County, Indiana USA, died on 12 Sep 1895 in Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa USA and was buried in Pennington Cemetery, near Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa USA.)