A Johnson Album

Oxley and Martha Ann.

From a studio portrait made around 1866.
Perhaps taken on a visit to Kansas.
(Thanks to Rick Harms.)

Kansas farm in winter.

Martha and Oxley on the porch of their house at the farm in Brooks,
a crossroads east of Neodesha, where they lived for two decades, 1883-1902.
Taken around 1899.

The five daughters of Oxley Johnson and Martha Ann Stallsworth.
(l-r) Mary Catherine Lowe, Lucinda E. "Nannie" Graves, Sarah E. "Sadie" Graves,
Martha Sherman "Sherm" Downey, and Lillian B. "Lillie" Fogleman.
Taken at a Neodesha studio about 1904.

John William Lowe and Mary Catherine Johnson Lowe
Probably taken in Neodesha about 1904.

Four Generations
Oxley and Martha Johnson with their daughter, Mary Catherine Lowe,
and their granddaughter, Blossom Lowe Bristow,
and their great-grandson, Julius Lucien Bristow III.
Taken at the Johnson home in Neodesha, Kansas, late 1907.

A few of Oxley Johnson's Grandchildren:

(Standing) Kate Coombs Bristow, Lucien Bristow, Sadie Johnson Graves,
Lillian Johnson Fogleman, Blossom Lowe Bristow;
(Seated) Allen C. Graves, Ruth C. Fogleman, Junie Bristow, Oxley Bristow.
(This picture was probably taken in the spring of 1910. In February of that year, Oxley Johnson's fist wife, Martha, had died.
In November 1911 he married Kate Coombs Bristow, who was his granddaughter Blossom's mother-in-law.)

Oxley Johnson Home, 1995
2nd & Indiana Streets, Neodesha, Kansas
Almost unchanged after ninety years.
(The group portrait above was taken on the side porch.)

Neodesha Cemetery

From the collection of Neil Allen Bristow.