Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston Dies at Farmers Branch

After an illness of many months, Mrs. Elizabeth Dean Johnston, 78, a resident of Texas for sixty-one years, died Wednesday afternoon at her residence near Farmers Branch, Dallas County. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at her home with burial in Farmers Branch Cemetery.
Mrs. Johnston, the wife of the late Marion Johnston, was a native of Monroe County, Tennessee. She came to Texas in 1868 with her parents, Frederick and Elizabeth Drakebill Dean. Surviving are three sons, J. T. Johnston, Water Valley; Bob Johnston, San Angelo, and Ben Johnston, Farmers Branch; t wo daughters, Misses Mary and Ava Johnston of Farmers Branch; three grand-daughters and three grandsons.
Pallbearers will be J. N. McComas, Jim Luna, Gip Floyd, Bob Floyd, Dr. Edgar Burnett and Albert Verbick.

The Dallas Morning News - January 3, 1929
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

AN OLD CITIZEN PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND

Mrs. Eliza Johnson, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Dallas county, died at her home in Farmers Branch, Feb. 16, 1921, at the ripe old age of ninety-seven years. She was converted when quite young and lived a faithful and  consistent Christian life, being a member of the new Hope Baptist Church. Rev. McGruder attended the funeral and spoke words of comfort to the loved ones. Eight children, twenty-nine grand children, seventeen great grand children, one great, great grand child, and a host of friends survive this faithful servant of God.
The remains were entered in their family cemetery at Farmers Branch.
Mrs. Eliza Johnson has many relatives in Dallas, being closely related to the Fuqua, Tyler and Boswell families in this city, who deeply mourn her loss.
We regret very much to loose our relative and life long friend but God knoweth all things and doeth all things well. We will meet her again in the sweet beyond.

The Dallas Express - February 26, 1921

Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston Dies at Farmers Branch

After an illness of many months, Mrs. Elizabeth Dean Johnston, 78, a resident of Texas for sixty-one years, died Wednesday afternoon at her residence near Farmers Branch, Dallas County. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at her home with burial in Farmers Branch Cemetery.

Mrs. Johnston, the wife of the late Marion Johnston, was a native of Monroe county, Tennessee. She came to Texas in 1868 with her parents, Frederic and Elizabeth Drakebill Dean. Surviving are three sons, J. T. Johnston, Walter Valley; Bob Johnston, San Angelo; Ben Johnston, Farmers Branch; two daughters, Misses Mary and Ava Johnston of Farmers Branch, three granddaughters and three grandsons.

All the children were present for the funeral, J. T. and family of Water Valley arrived Wednesday morning and Bob and family of San Antonio arrived about one o'clock Thursday morning. The floral offerings were most beautiful and was a silent token of the deep respect felt for Mrs. Johnston, and many relatives and friends gathered in t he home and at the grave in reverence. Dr. Anderson of Dallas conducted a very appropriate and impressive service in the home.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, January 4, 1929

Town North Y to Dedicate Building Town North YMCA will dedicate its new building at 2 p.m. Sunday on a site steeped in Early Dallas history, the old Johnston homestead at Vallew View Lane west of Marsh Lane. The building and 7-acre tract on to the memory of Marion and Elizabeth Dean Johnston, early Dallas County settlers. The building and 7-acre tract on which the Y is located were donated to the Town North YMCA by the Johnstons' three children, Ben Johnston, Miss Mary Johnston and Miss Ava Johnston. Marrion Johnston made the original homestead purchase in 1867, 13 years after he moved to Texas from Illinois. The land originally had been the location of a blacksmith shop erected by the Rev. William Bowles in 1842. the shop was among the first public building in Peter's Colony. During the Civil War, the land was the site of military training for125 area Confederate Army volunteers. Marion Johnston, who later bought the land, freighted for Southern forces during the Civil War. On July 5, 1865, Johnston was discharged from Company H, 31st Texas Calvary, Confederate States Army at Millican, Brazas County. Johnston's main interests were farming and cattle. The early Dallas settler purchased 2,600 acres of land in the county during his lifetime. The Dallas Morning News - March 12, 1964

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ELIZABETH DEAN JOHNSTON
OCT. 3, 1849
JAN. 2, 1929

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas