Edward Winfield Johnson married Martha J Flora on his 20th birthday, 8/9/1868. They had 2 boys. Walter Winfield Johnson born 3/21/1870 Salem Indiana and died on 3/13/1946 in Monroe County Indiana. Claud L Johnson was born on 3/24/1874 and died 4/24/1892. Claud had a "spinal curvature" that kept him from going to regular school.
Martha J Flora was born in 1844 and died in 1880.
He next married Lydia Myers, born 1859-1860 in indiana and they married on 10/5/1887 in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana. She died on 10/15/1888 in Elkhart, Indiana. No children that we know of.
He then married Alice May Monroe on 8/31/1890. One child died soon after, then they had 10 others. No. 5, George Dewey Johnson went to the Missouri Training School located in Boonville, Mo. Others, like Eliza,John and Abraham, three of the 4 youngest children, went to the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Home for Children before the parents died.
Edward was a private in the Union Army and joined up on 2/2/1864 and left on 7/20/1865.
