Bessie "Elizabeth" Johnson

Bessie "Elizabeth" Johnson was born more than 139 years ago in Chickasaw County Mississippi in May of 1880 to her Father James Madison Johnson and Mother, Henrietta Fisher..

** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Bessie's birth year of 1880 included.

• On February 2nd, 1880 the first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

• On May 13, 1880 In Menlo Park New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

• On June 24th, 1880 O Canada," the song that would become the National anthem of Canada, is performed for the first time at the Congrès National des Canadiens-Français

• On August 26th, 1880 competing circus owners P. T. Barnum and James A. Bailey sign a contract in Bridgeport, Connecticut to create the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

• On November 2nd, 1880 James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock to become the 20th President of the United States.

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Bessie was the eighth of nine children born to her Mother and Father. Her elder siblings chronologically were Lillian, James Madison Junior, Emmet, Newnan, Frederick, Henry Watson, and William. Younger brother Thomas Wesley was born on December 4th, 1883.

The Johnson family would relocate from Mississippi to Sunshine State and city of Tampa, Florida when she is just a toddler.

Johnson Patriarch James Madison the senior supports his family as a grocery merchant

At just 7 years old little Bessie would lose her Father on September 5th, 1887 when he passes away in Tampa at the age of fifty five. Bessie's Mother, Henriette would never remarry.

On September 5th, 1899 12 years to the day after having lost her Father, at the age of nineteen, Bessie marries thirty-six-year-old Pennsylvania native William James Linhart. Together the couple would have three children during the course of their marriage. Son's Wilkin's, and William junior as well as Daughter, Nellie. According to Florida Census records from 1910 Johnson Matriarch Henrietta at the age of 66 resides with her Daughter Bessie's family.

Linhart Patriarch William supports his family as a painter..

We no not how but Bessie loses her life on July 24th, 1915 having just recently turned thirty five. She leaves behind her Husband William and three young children

Bessie " Elizabeth" Linhart.. Beloved Wife and Mother