Individual Details
Mary Frances Coleman
(JANUARY 5, 1867 - JUNE 1, 1949)
Events
| Birth | JANUARY 5, 1867 | El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas |  |  | |
| Marriage | DECEMBER 23, 1891 | Oglesby, Coryell Co., TX - John Ealy Johnson | | ||
| Miscellaneous | NOVEMBER 26, 1906 | Land Purchase - Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Miscellaneous | NOVEMBER 16, 1926 | Land Purchase - Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Miscellaneous | NOVEMBER 6, 1930 | Land Sale - Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Census | 1940 | Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Miscellaneous | APRIL 3, 1941 | Will - Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Death | JUNE 1, 1949 | Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Miscellaneous | JUNE 1, 1949 | Texas Death Certificate - Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Burial | 1949 | Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Aft JUNE 1, 1949 | Find A Grave Memorial - Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas | | | |
| Alt name | Mary Frances Johnson | |
Families
| Spouse | John Ealy Johnson (1866 - 1931) |
| Child | Gussie Gibson "Gip" Johnson (1892 - 1959) |
| Child | Tresa L. Johnson (1894 - 1896) |
| Child | Charlie Coleman Johnson (1898 - 1965) |
| Child | Ernest Homer "Chock" Johnson (1900 - 1966) |
| Child | Frank Winston "Red" Johnson (1902 - 1976) |
| Child | Johnnie George "Dooley" Johnson (1905 - 2000) |
| Child | Harry Herbert "Bud" Johnson (1907 - 1971) |
| Father | George Washington Coleman (1840 - 1923) |
| Mother | Mary Virginia Hicks (1845 - 1927) |
| Sibling | Charlie Staten Coleman (1871 - 1960) |
Notes
Birth
Her Find A Grave Memorial has a tombstone photograph showing her birth date as 1867.Her Texas Death Certificate shows her birth date as 1-5-1867 in El Dorado, AR.
Miscellaneous
Vol. 45, page 167-169 Coryell County Deed Records:On 11-26-1906, T.V. and J.B. Hood, his wife, sold to C.S. Coleman and M.F. Johnson 202 and 8/10 acres of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey and 184 and 1/4 acres of land in the Mary Hawley Survey.
The purchase was paid by $4140 cash from C.S. Coleman and $1000 cash from G.W. Coleman for C.S. Coleman and M.F. Johnson and by 7 notes given by C.S. Coleman, M.F. and J.E. Johnson at 8% interest and payable as : $800 due 1-1-1907; $900 due 1-1-1908; $1000 due on 1-1 of 1909, 1910, and 1911; $1100 due 1-1-1912; and $1200 due 1-1-1913.
Miscellaneous
Vol. 107, page 105 Coryell County Deed Records:On 11-16-1926, G.G. and Minnie Johnson sold 105 acres of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey to Mrs. M.F. Johnson for $3725 in cash; and Mrs. M.F. Johnson also assumed the balance due on a $5000 note owed to the Federal Land Bank of Houston, as well as nine notes totalling $4400 owed to J.E. and M.F. Johnson from the 4-22-1924 purchase of this property by G.G. and Minnie Johnson from J.E. and M.F. Johnson.
Miscellaneous
Vol. 110, page 532 of Coryell County, Deed Records:On 11-6-1930, Mrs. M.F. and J.E. Johnson sold 105 acres of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey to Harry Johnson for $1414 in cash; and Harry Johnson also assumed the balance of a $5000 note owed to the Federal Land Bank of Houston.
Census
The 1940 Coryell County, Texas, U.S. Federal Census shows:Fannie Johnson, 73, widow, b. AR, lived in same place in 1935.
Miscellaneous
Mary F. Johnson's Will was made on 4-3-1941, filed for record on 6-4-1945, and witnessed by Mrs. W. A. Green and T. W. King.The will mentions her children:
Harry Herbert Johnson, Johnnie George Johnson, Ernest Homer Johnson, Frank Winston Johnson, Charlie Coleman Johnson, and Gussie Gibson Johnson
All of her real and personal property remaining after the payment of her debts was to be divided equally between the mentioned children except both her son Johnnie George Johnson and her son Ernest Homer Johnson are to each get $600.00 more than the other children (this was to repay them for the same amount they gave her to use for improvements to her property.)
The value of her estate was $12,100, most of this value was in land, with $2700 assigned to household goods and cash.
Executor- Harry Johnson and if he could not serve then her son Harry Herbert Johnson were designated in her will.
Her son Harry Herbert Johnson actually served as executor due to the death of Harry Johnson prior to Mary Frances Johnson's death.
Death
Her Find A Grave Memorial has a tombstone photograph showing her death date as 1949.Her Texas Death Certificate shows her death date as 6-1-1949 in Oglesby, Texas.
Miscellaneous
The Texas Death Certificate of Mary Frances Johnson shows the following:b. 1-5-1867 in El Dorado, AR
d. 6-1-1949 in Oglesby, TX
father -G. W. Coleman, b. AR
mother -Mary Hicks, b. AR
Widow
Burial - Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
Informant -Harry H. Johnson of Harlingen, TX
Miscellaneous
Her Find A Grave Memorial is #44719729.The memorial has a photograph of the double tombstone she shares with her husband John E. Johnson showing the dates 1867 and 1949 for her.
Endnotes
1. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.
2. Texas Deaths 1890-1976, FamilySearch Website, Digital images of original record, www.familysearch.org.
3. Evelyn Johnson Lawrence, Family History, Recipient: Sherry Lawrence, Author Address: Gatesville, TX, Recipient Address: Gatesville, TX (2002), Family History Compiled by Evelyn Lawrence from personal communications, family bibles,etc..
4. Marriage Certificate, Record Type: Marriage Certificate, Listed in Coryell Co. Marriage Book 4, page 531. Married by J.A. Norton. On the marriage license Mary Frances is listed as M.F. but the marriage certificate shows it as D.F..
5. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).
6. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).
7. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).
8. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..
9. Mary F. Johnson Will (4 June 1949), Coryell County, Texas Probate Records: Probate Packet No. 2896, dated 6-4-1949; Coryell County Clerk's Office, Gatesville, Texas.
10. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.
11. Texas Deaths 1890-1976, FamilySearch Website, Digital images of original record, www.familysearch.org.
12. Texas Deaths 1890-1976, FamilySearch Website, Digital images of original record, www.familysearch.org.
13. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.
14. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.
15. Evelyn Johnson Lawrence, Family History, Recipient: Sherry Lawrence, Author Address: Gatesville, TX, Recipient Address: Gatesville, TX (2002), Family History Compiled by Evelyn Lawrence from personal communications, family bibles,etc..
16. Marriage Certificate, Record Type: Marriage Certificate, Listed in Coryell Co. Marriage Book 4, page 531. Married by J.A. Norton. On the marriage license Mary Frances is listed as M.F. but the marriage certificate shows it as D.F..