Individual Details
Johnson Payntor Rundell
(9 Oct 1834 - 14 Nov 1922)
From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1005.
TOWN OF CLIFTON
JOHNSON P. RUNDELL, Sec. 25; P. O. Washburn; was born in England Oct. 9, 1834; his father, James Rundell, died in England in 1840, and Johnson came with his mother Betsy to America in 1853; came to Platteville, Grant Co., Wis., and rented a farm then owned by L. L. Goodell, on which he lived four years, and then moved to Mifflin in 1860, and bought 120 acres of land from L. Coats and B. C. Eastman; lived on this farm till 1869, when he moved to the place where he now resides. Was married to Martha Q. Swiers, May 17, 1860, who was born in Iowa, near Dubuque, March 10, 1840; her father, John Swiers, served in the Black Hawk war. They have two children - Edgar G., born March 10, 1861, and Archie E., Jan. 24, 1863. Johnson has been a member of the School Board in the town of Mifflin and Clifton; was Master of first Grange lodge in Grant Co., organized at Washburn in February, 1873, and was a representative to State Grange two years; is also a member of Masonic order, Mifflin Lodge; owns 500 acres of land, 430 being in Secs. 25 and 36, town of Clifton, and 20 acres timber land on Sec. 16, town of Lima.
Obituary not found at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, genealogybank.com or newspaperarchive.com, January 21, 2018.
TOWN OF CLIFTON
JOHNSON P. RUNDELL, Sec. 25; P. O. Washburn; was born in England Oct. 9, 1834; his father, James Rundell, died in England in 1840, and Johnson came with his mother Betsy to America in 1853; came to Platteville, Grant Co., Wis., and rented a farm then owned by L. L. Goodell, on which he lived four years, and then moved to Mifflin in 1860, and bought 120 acres of land from L. Coats and B. C. Eastman; lived on this farm till 1869, when he moved to the place where he now resides. Was married to Martha Q. Swiers, May 17, 1860, who was born in Iowa, near Dubuque, March 10, 1840; her father, John Swiers, served in the Black Hawk war. They have two children - Edgar G., born March 10, 1861, and Archie E., Jan. 24, 1863. Johnson has been a member of the School Board in the town of Mifflin and Clifton; was Master of first Grange lodge in Grant Co., organized at Washburn in February, 1873, and was a representative to State Grange two years; is also a member of Masonic order, Mifflin Lodge; owns 500 acres of land, 430 being in Secs. 25 and 36, town of Clifton, and 20 acres timber land on Sec. 16, town of Lima.
Obituary not found at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, genealogybank.com or newspaperarchive.com, January 21, 2018.
Events
| Birth | 9 Oct 1834 | Cornwall, , England | |||
| Birth | 9 Oct 1834 | ||||
| Marriage | 17 May 1860 | Grant Co., Wisconsin - Martha Susan Swiers |  | ||
| Marriage | Jul 1909 | Elvira Viola Jones | | ||
| Death | 1922 | ||||
| Death | 14 Nov 1922 | Platteville, Grant Co., Wisconsin | |||
| Burial | Greenwood Cemetery, Platteville, Grant Co., Wisconsin | |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Susan Swiers (1839 - 1908) |
| Child | Edgar Gustavus Rundell (1861 - 1896) |
| Child | Archibald Eugene Rundell (1863 - 1938) |
| Spouse | Elvira Viola Jones (1858 - 1940) |
Endnotes
1. Marriage Index: Michigan and Wisconsin, 1830-1900, Family Tree Maker Marriage Index CD 251.
2. Ancestry.com OneWorldTree.
3. Find A Grave.