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Mandana Rebecca Johnson (Merrill)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Shelby, Macomb, Michigan, United States
Death: August 11, 1921 (82)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
Place of Burial: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Justin Jared Merrill and Annie Lovina Merrill
Wife of Nephi Johnson
Mother of Lovinia Anna Farnsworth; Nephi Johnson, Jr.; Lillian Camilla Johnson; Editha Mandana Stewart; Joel Hills Johnson and 5 others
Sister of Ferdinand Daniel Merrill; Editha Melissa Johnson and Willaim Wallace Merrill
Half sister of George Gee Merrill; Justin Jared Merrill; Jacob Merrill; Lucy Ann Ricks and Maryetta Owens

Occupation: Married Nephi Johnson 1/4/1866 and had 10 children. Member of a choir and theatrical troop and a teacher in the Relief Society and counselor in the Primary.
Managed by: Gwyneth Potter McNeil
Last Updated:

About Mandana Rebecca Johnson

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A Sketch of the Life of Mandana Merrill Johnson.

Mandana Merrill Johnson was born at Shelby, Macomb County, Michigan, the 4th of October 1838, daughter of Justin Jared and Lovina Manchester Merrill. Her Mother died when she was 2 years old, and left 4 children. Their names were Ferdinand Daniel Merrill, born in 1828, Edith Malisa, born the 10th of July 1833; William Wallace born the 10th of December 1835. Her brothers and sisters were all born in Elba, Genesee County, New York.

As child Mandana was frail and quite week. Her father was always kind to her. She made her home with her grandmother some of the time. The color of her hair was auburn, she had very thick long hair, as a child, and until middle age she wore it in the different fashions of the day. She was always very proud of her hair. Her complexion was very fair, her eyes were gray. When a young woman she was five feet two inches tall. Her weight was about 140 lbs. She had a very even temper and always spoke well of the absent ones. She said they had their faults, but everyone had some redeeming qualities in their character.

She came to Utah in 1848, arrived at Big Cottonwood in September 1848. She lived there with her grandmother Merrill in Salt Lake. She worked for Bishop Rueben Miller's wife for awhile and was treated as an own daughter. In 1852 her sister Editha married Sixtus Johnson and went to Parowan, Iron County, Utah, to live. In 1854 Sixtus was called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands. Editha and her two children came to Salt Lake with him, after he left for his mission Nephi Johnson, his brother, took Sixtus'es wife and children back to Parowan. Mandana went with them. Her sisters little boy took sick on the way and died and was buried at Nephi, Juab County, Utah on their way home.

Mandana joined the choir and theatrical troop in Cedar City, she married Nephi Johnson the 4th of January 1866, lived in Cedar City for a year then moved to Fort Johnson the 4th of January 1856. Her oldest son Nephi Johnson was born at Fort Johnson 1858. When he was six weeks old she moved to Dixie, which afterwards was called Virgin City. It was on the Rio Virgin River of Kane County. Now Washington county. She lived in a wagon box till they could make her a room out of logs. The roof was made out of cedar posts, covered with canes gathered on the banks of the Virgin River. They were covered with a foot or two of dirt. The fireplace was make of rock, and a large smooth rock was used for the hear stone. There were no stoves in the county, they did all their cooking and baking over the fire, in the fireplace.

In the spring of 1860 her husband was called to go and bring the emigrants across the plains. In returning home he was captain over the wagons in William Budge Company. He was gone eight months; while he was gone some men plowed some land so Mandana could raise a garden. She carded cotton and wool, spun it into yarn, colored and wove cloth, to clothe her and her children. She dept a blue dye to color with, her husband planted some madder, she had it to color with for red. She gathered dog roots, cut them up and boiled them. She put all sorts of things together to get different colors. She put vitriol or copperas into dye to make different colors of black. She gathered rabbit brush flowers to color yellow then she put the yellow and blue dye together to make green. When she needed soap she would soak thru the ashes and run thru a sieve in the leach and come out lye, she put a large brass kettle under it to catch the lye then put grease in it, boil it. Next she would put it into jars and it would be a soft soap to wash with. The Indians would dig case roots, peel the black off and bring them to her so she could out them up in small places, put them in a tub over night covering them with water. She soaked her clothes in the case water; it would suds and take all the dirt out when washed on the wash board. She paid the Indians for the case root with something to eat.

When they first settled the Dixie Country the only clothes the Indians wore was a breechcloth made of buckskins, a robe of rabbit skins, leggings and moccasins of buck skin. It was warm country. There were no stores, so men would bring goods into town and get a store. They would make some tables and hold their merchandise on them. The people would buy what they could. Calico was 75 cents a yard. Sugar one dollar a pound, tea so very dear, preserves with molasses. They had grown cherries for pies, custard, vinegar pies and sweet cakes were all made with molasses. People set out all kinds of fruit trees and vines, when the trees bore fruit it was large and delicious. In 1861 Mandana's husband took her and her children to Fort Johnson on a visit. They traveled with an ox team. In the fall of 1868 her husband took her to Cache Valley to see her father and family. They stayed in Smithfieild at the father's home for a few weeks. They also stayed with her husband's sister Susan Martineau at Logan. It took them two weeks to make the trip with a horse team. Her brother Jet Merril spent the winter with her at Virgin. Her fourth son and seventh child were born the 3rd of January 1870. Her oldest child and daughter Lovinia was 13 years old and she did all the work for the family till her mother could help her. In 1871 her husband moved his family to Johnson Utah. They arrived there May 4th, she lived in a tent all summer, and the men folk blasted a cellar in a point of rocks where a spring was. Mandana and neighbors kept their milk and butter in the cellar. On the 4th of July it was real warm and the people stayed in their homes. It did not seem like Independence Day, so she thought she would wake them all up. She got her pistol she always kept with her for emergency, shit it off in a minute shot again; the men came running with their guns, thinking the Indians were shooting. They found her with the pistol, they were glad she was shooting to let them know it was the Forth.

They lived in Johnson till October when they got word from Kanab to all move over, next day, as they had got word 100 Navajos were thinking the Indians were coming, so all the people moved over. The Navajos came on a friendly mission and traveled through the country. The people baked bread for them. They lived all winter in a log room in the fort, and sent their children to a good school for those days. She moved back to Johnson in the spring, lived there until May 14. She lived in a log house all summer then moved to a little town called Hillsdale. She lived in a tent till they could build a house of two rooms made out of logs. It was very cold there, but not much snow during the winter. She lived there till May 14. There was not many people there but they enjoyed themselves with matches, dancing, had a book keeping school some evenings, and would have dinner for all once a month. In February her sister Editha died and left seven children and one grandchild. She felt badly over her sister. In the winter of 1874 the snow fell very deep. Many of the people moving to Arizona would stay at Hillsdale in the schoolhouse for several days, as there was plenty of good pine wood near so they could keep warm. In June 1874, October 26, her daughter Lillian was born, her husband was mail contractor. He had lots of boys to cook for that carried the mail. Her husband kept a small store.

Her oldest child Lovina was married in February 1879 and the 14th day. Her youngest child Seth was born the 21st of May 1879.

She was a teacher in the Relief Society and counselor in the Primary. In 1892 her son Jet M. Johnson took her to take care of Lillian and her son Seth and her husband, grandson, Nephi Hamblin to Provo to attend the Brigham Young University in 1893 to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1889 her husband took tow of his wives and children and moved to Old Mexico. He left her in a good home in Kanab, Utah. In 1903 she went to Logan and worked in the Logan Temple for dead ancestors. Shelter sold her home in Kanab and moved to Salt Lake City. She lived with her daughter Editha and family. She did good work in the Temple for years. She lived till her 83rd birthday had passed in 1921.

She with her daughter Editha, her husband's daughter Anna and Anna's husband were all killed by a street car on State Street and 21st South. They were all out for an automobile ride. Anna's husband, Hyrum Shumway was driving the auto, when they crossed the track, the street car hit them and killed them all. Two of her great grandsons were in the car, but being small their grandmother, Editha, threw them out of the auto before the street car hit them. Mandana had always lived an honorable life, and always helped the distressed. Her door was always open to everyone. She was by all who loved her, mourned, If her children and children's descendants will follow her good examples they will all have honest upright lives and be true to the gospel she thought so much of.

This sketch was written by her daughter Lovina in 1931

Daughter of Justin Jared Merrill and Annie Lovina Manchester

Married - Nephi Johnson, 4 Jan 1856, Cedar City, Iron, Utah

Children - Sixtus Ellis Johnson, Lillian Camilla Johnson, Susan Ellen Johnson, Mandana Editha Johnson, Seth Johnson, Nephi Johnson, Joel Hills Johnson, William Wallace Johnson, Justin Merrill Johnson, Lovinnia Ann Johnson

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Parents:

Justin Jared Merrill (1804 - 1889)

Spouse:

Nephi Johnson (1833 - 1919)

Children:

Lovinia Anna Johnson Farnsworth (1856 - 1932)

Nephi Johnson (1858 - 1956)

Joel Hills Johnson (1860 - 1924)

Justin Merrill Johnson (1862 - 1955)

Editha Mandana Johnson Stewart (1865 - 1921)

Susan Ellen Johnson Hamblin (1867 - 1890)

Sixtus Ellis Johnson (1870 - 1945)

William Wallace Johnson (1873 - 1877)

Lillian Camilla Johnson Jolley (1876 - 1964)

Seth Johnson (1879 - 1947)

Maintained by: Jan Dixon

Originally Created by: S.M.Smith

Record added: Jun 09, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 19798650



A Sketch of the Life of Mandana Merrill Johnson

Mandana Merrill Johnson was born at Shelby, Macomb County, Michigan, the 4th of October 1838, daughter of Justin Jared and Lovina Manchester Merrill. Her Mother died when she was 2 years old, and left 4 children. Their names were Ferdinand Daniel Merrill, born in 1828, Edith Malisa, born the 10th of July 1833; William Wallace born the 10th of December 1835. Her brothers and sisters were all born in Elba, Genesee County, New York.

As child Mandana was frail and quite week. Her father was always kind to her. She made her home with her grandmother some of the time. The color of her hair was auburn, she had very thick long hair, as a child, and until middle age she wore it in the different fashions of the day. She was always very proud of her hair. Her complexion was very fair, her eyes were gray. When a young woman she was five feet two inches tall. Her weight was about 140 lbs. She had a very even temper and always spoke well of the absent ones. She said they had their faults, but everyone had some redeeming qualities in their character.

She came to Utah in 1848, arrived at Big Cottonwood in September 1848. She lived there with her grandmother Merrill in Salt Lake. She worked for Bishop Rueben Miller's wife for awhile and was treated as an own daughter. In 1852 her sister Editha married Sixtus Johnson and went to Parowan, Iron County, Utah, to live. In 1854 Sixtus was called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands. Editha and her two children came to Salt Lake with him, after he left for his mission Nephi Johnson, his brother, took Sixtus'es wife and children back to Parowan. Mandana went with them. Her sisters little boy took sick on the way and died and was buried at Nephi, Juab County, Utah on their way home.

Mandana joined the choir and theatrical troop in Cedar City, she married Nephi Johnson the 4th of January 1866, lived in Cedar City for a year then moved to Fort Johnson the 4th of January 1856. Her oldest son Nephi Johnson was born at Fort Johnson 1858. When he was six weeks old she moved to Dixie, which afterwards was called Virgin City. It was on the Rio Virgin River of Kane County. Now Washington county. She lived in a wagon box till they could make her a room out of logs. The roof was made out of cedar posts, covered with canes gathered on the banks of the Virgin River. They were covered with a foot or two of dirt. The fireplace was make of rock, and a large smooth rock was used for the hear stone. There were no stoves in the county, they did all their cooking and baking over the fire, in the fireplace.

In the spring of 1860 her husband was called to go and bring the emigrants across the plains. In returning home he was captain over the wagons in William Budge Company. He was gone eight months; while he was gone some men plowed some land so Mandana could raise a garden. She carded cotton and wool, spun it into yarn, colored and wove cloth, to clothe her and her children. She dept a blue dye to color with, her husband planted some madder, she had it to color with for red. She gathered dog roots, cut them up and boiled them. She put all sorts of things together to get different colors. She put vitriol or copperas into dye to make different colors of black. She gathered rabbit brush flowers to color yellow then she put the yellow and blue dye together to make green. When she needed soap she would soak thru the ashes and run thru a sieve in the leach and come out lye, she put a large brass kettle under it to catch the lye then put grease in it, boil it. Next she would put it into jars and it would be a soft soap to wash with. The Indians would dig case roots, peel the black off and bring them to her so she could out them up in small places, put them in a tub over night covering them with water. She soaked her clothes in the case water; it would suds and take all the dirt out when washed on the wash board. She paid the Indians for the case root with something to eat.

When they first settled the Dixie Country the only clothes the Indians wore was a breech cloth made of buckskins, a robe of rabbit skins, leggings and moccasins of buck skin. It was warm country. There were no stores, so men would bring goods into town and get a store. They would make some tables and hold their merchandise on them. The people would buy what they could. Calico was 75 cents a yard. Sugar one dollar a pound, tea so very dear, preserves with molasses. They had grown cherries for pies, custard, vinegar pies and sweet cakes were all made with molasses. People set out all kinds of fruit trees and vines, when the trees bore fruit it was large and delicious. In 1861 Mandana's husband took her and her children to Fort Johnson on a visit. They traveled with an ox team. In the fall of 1868 her husband took her to Cache Valley to see her father and family. They stayed in Smithfieild at the father's home for a few weeks. They also stayed with her husband's sister Susan Martineau at Logan. It took them two weeks to make the trip with a horse team. Her brother Jet Merril spent the winter with her at Virgin. Her fourth son and seventh child were born the 3rd of January 1870. Her oldest child and daughter Lovinia was 13 years old and she did all the work for the family till her mother could help her. In 1871 her husband moved his family to Johnson Utah. They arrived there May 4th, she lived in a tent all summer, and the men folk blasted a cellar in a point of rocks where a spring was. Mandana and neighbors kept their milk and butter in the cellar. On the 4th of July it was real warm and the people stayed in their homes. It did not seem like Independence Day, so she thought she would wake them all up. She got her pistol she always kept with her for emergency, shit it off in a minute shot again; the men came running with their guns, thinking the Indians were shooting. They found her with the pistol, they were glad she was shooting to let them know it was the Forth. They lived in Johnson till October when they got word from Kanab to all move over, next day, as they had got word 100 Navajos were thinking the Indians were coming, so all the people moved over. The Navajos came on a friendly mission and traveled through the country. The people baked bread for them. They lived all winter in a log room in the fort, and sent their children to a good school for those days. She moved back to Johnson in the spring, lived there until May 14. She lived in a log house all summer then moved to a little town called Hillsdale. She lived in a tent till they could build a house of two rooms made out of logs. It was very cold there, but not much snow during the winter. She lived there till May 14. There was not many people there but they enjoyed themselves with matches, dancing, had a book keeping school some evenings, and would have dinner for all once a month. In February her sister Editha died and left seven children and one grandchild. She felt badly over her sister. In the winter of 1874 the snow fell very deep. Many of the people moving to Arizona would stay at Hillsdale in the schoolhouse for several days, as there was plenty of good pine wood near so they could keep warm. In June 1874, October 26, her daughter Lillian was born, her husband was mail contractor. He had lots of boys to cook for that carried the mail. Her husband kept a small store.

Her oldest child Lovina was married in February 1879 and the 14th day. Her youngest child Seth was born the 21st of May 1879.

She was a teacher in the Relief Society and counselor in the Primary. In 1892 her son Jet M. Johnson took her to take care of Lillian and her son Seth and her husband, grandson, Nephi Hamblin to Provo to attend the Brigham Young University in 1893 to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1889 her husband took tow of his wives and children and moved to Old Mexico. He left her in a good home in Kanab, Utah. In 1903 she went to Logan and worked in the Logan Temple for dead ancestors. Shelter sold her home in Kanab and moved to Salt Lake City. She lived with her daughter Editha and family. She did good work in the Temple for years. She lived till her 83rd birthday had passed in 1921.

She with her daughter Editha, her husband's daughter Anna and Anna's husband were all killed by a street car on State Street and 21st South. They were all out for an automobile ride. Anna's husband, Hyrum Shumway was driving the auto, when they crossed the track, the street car hit them and killed them all. Two of her great grandsons were in the car, but being small their grandmother, Editha, threw them out of the auto before the street car hit them. Mandana had always lived an honorable life, and always helped the distressed. Her door was always open to everyone. She was by all who loved her, mourned, If her children and children's descendants will follow her good examples they will all have honest upright lives and be true to the gospel she thought so much of.

This sketch was written by her daughter Lovina in 1931

Daughter of Justin Jared Merrill and Annie Lovina Manchester

Married - Nephi Johnson, 4 Jan 1856, Cedar City, Iron, Utah

Children - Sixtus Ellis Johnson, Lillian Camilla Johnson, Susan Ellen Johnson, Mandana Editha Johnson, Seth Johnson, Nephi Johnson, Joel Hills Johnson, William Wallace Johnson, Justin Merrill Johnson, Lovinnia Ann Johnson

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Parents:

Justin Jared Merrill (1804 - 1889)

Spouse:

Nephi Johnson (1833 - 1919)

Children:

Lovinie Anna Johnson Farnsworth (1856-1932)

Nephi Johnson (1858 - 1956)

Joel Hills Johnson (1860 - 1924)

Justin Merrill Johnson (1862 - 1955)

Editha Mandana Johnson Stewart (1865-1921)

Susan Ellen Johnson Hamblin (1867-1890)

Sixtus Ellis Johnson (1870 - 1945)

William Wallace Johnson (1873 - 1877)

Lillian Camilla Johnson Jolley (1876-1964)

Seth Johnson (1879 - 1947)

Maintained by: Jan Dixon

Originally Created by: S M Smith

Record added: Jun 09, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 19798650



A Sketch of the Life of Mandana Merrill Johnson

Mandana Merrill Johnson was born at Shelby, Macomb County, Michigan, the 4th of October 1838, daughter of Justin Jared and Lovina Manchester Merrill.  Her Mother died when she was 2 years old, and left 4 children.  Their names were Ferdinand Daniel Merrill, born in 1828, Edith Malisa, born the 10th of July 1833; William Wallace born the 10th of December 1835.  Her brothers and sisters were all born in Elba, Genesee County, New York.

As child Mandana was frail and quite week. Her father was always kind to her. She made her home with her grandmother some of the time. The color of her hair was auburn, she had very thick long hair, as a child, and until middle age she wore it in the different fashions of the day. She was always very proud of her hair. Her complexion was very fair, her eyes were gray. When a young woman she was five feet two inches tall. Her weight was about 140 lbs. She had a very even temper and always spoke well of the absent ones. She said they had their faults, but everyone had some redeeming qualities in their character.
She came to Utah in 1848, arrived at Big Cottonwood in September 1848. She lived there with her grandmother Merrill in Salt Lake. She worked for Bishop Rueben Miller's wife for awhile and was treated as an own daughter. In 1852 her sister Editha married Sixtus Johnson and went to Parowan, Iron County, Utah, to live. In 1854 Sixtus was called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands. Editha and her two children came to Salt Lake with him, after he left for his mission Nephi Johnson, his brother, took Sixtus'es wife and children back to Parowan. Mandana went with them. Her sisters little boy took sick on the way and died and was buried at Nephi, Juab County, Utah on their way home.
Mandana joined the choir and theatrical troop in Cedar City, she married Nephi Johnson the 4th of January 1866, lived in Cedar City for a year then moved to Fort Johnson the 4th of January 1856. Her oldest son Nephi Johnson was born at Fort Johnson 1858. When he was six weeks old she moved to Dixie, which afterwards was called Virgin City. It was on the Rio Virgin River of Kane County. Now Washington county. She lived in a wagon box till they could make her a room out of logs. The roof was made out of cedar posts, covered with canes gathered on the banks of the Virgin River. They were covered with a foot or two of dirt. The fireplace was make of rock, and a large smooth rock was used for the hear stone. There were no stoves in the county, they did all their cooking and baking over the fire, in the fireplace.

In the spring of 1860 her husband was called to go and bring the emigrants across the plains.  In returning home he was captain over the wagons in William Budge Company.  He was gone eight months; while he was gone some men plowed some land so Mandana could raise a garden.  She carded cotton and wool, spun it into yarn, colored and wove cloth, to clothe her and her children.  She dept a blue dye to color with, her husband planted some madder, she had it to color with for red.  She gathered dog roots, cut them up and boiled them.  She put all sorts of things together to get different colors.  She put vitriol or copperas into dye to make different colors of black.  She gathered rabbit brush flowers to color yellow then she put the yellow and blue dye together to make green.  When she needed soap she would soak thru the ashes and run thru a sieve in the leach and come out lye, she put a large brass kettle under it to catch the lye then put grease in it, boil it.  Next she would put it into jars and it would be a soft soap to wash with.  The Indians would dig case roots, peel the black off and bring them to her so she could out them up in small places, put them in a tub over night covering them with water.  She soaked her clothes in the case water; it would suds and take all the dirt out when washed on the wash board.  She paid the Indians for the case root with something to eat.

When they first settled the Dixie Country the only clothes the Indians wore was a breechcloth made of buckskins, a robe of rabbit skins, leggings and moccasins of buck skin. It was warm country. There were no stores, so men would bring goods into town and get a store. They would make some tables and hold their merchandise on them. The people would buy what they could. Calico was 75 cents a yard. Sugar one dollar a pound, tea so very dear, preserves with molasses. They had grown cherries for pies, custard, vinegar pies and sweet cakes were all made with molasses. People set out all kinds of fruit trees and vines, when the trees bore fruit it was large and delicious. In 1861 Mandana's husband took her and her children to Fort Johnson on a visit. They traveled with an ox team. In the fall of 1868 her husband took her to Cache Valley to see her father and family. They stayed in Smithfieild at the father's home for a few weeks. They also stayed with her husband's sister Susan Martineau at Logan. It took them two weeks to make the trip with a horse team. Her brother Jet Merril spent the winter with her at Virgin. Her fourth son and seventh child were born the 3rd of January 1870. Her oldest child and daughter Lovinia was 13 years old and she did all the work for the family till her mother could help her. In 1871 her husband moved his family to Johnson Utah. They arrived there May 4th, she lived in a tent all summer, and the men folk blasted a cellar in a point of rocks where a spring was. Mandana and neighbors kept their milk and butter in the cellar. On the 4th of July it was real warm and the people stayed in their homes. It did not seem like Independence Day, so she thought she would wake them all up. She got her pistol she always kept with her for emergency, shit it off in a minute shot again; the men came running with their guns, thinking the Indians were shooting. They found her with the pistol, they were glad she was shooting to let them know it was the Forth. They lived in Johnson till October when they got word from Kanab to all move over, next day, as they had got word 100 Navajos were thinking the Indians were coming, so all the people moved over. The Navajos came on a friendly mission and traveled through the country. The people baked bread for them. They lived all winter in a log room in the fort, and sent their children to a good school for those days. She moved back to Johnson in the spring, lived there until May 14. She lived in a log house all summer then moved to a little town called Hillsdale. She lived in a tent till they could build a house of two rooms made out of logs. It was very cold there, but not much snow during the winter. She lived there till May 14. There was not many people there but they enjoyed themselves with matches, dancing, had a book keeping school some evenings, and would have dinner for all once a month. In February her sister Editha died and left seven children and one grandchild. She felt badly over her sister. In the winter of 1874 the snow fell very deep. Many of the people moving to Arizona would stay at Hillsdale in the schoolhouse for several days, as there was plenty of good pine wood near so they could keep warm. In June 1874, October 26, her daughter Lillian was born, her husband was mail contractor. He had lots of boys to cook for that carried the mail. Her husband kept a small store.
Her oldest child Lovina was married in February 1879 and the 14th day. Her youngest child Seth was born the 21st of May 1879.
She was a teacher in the Relief Society and counselor in the Primary. In 1892 her son Jet M. Johnson took her to take care of Lillian and her son Seth and her husband, grandson, Nephi Hamblin to Provo to attend the Brigham Young University in 1893 to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1889 her husband took tow of his wives and children and moved to Old Mexico. He left her in a good home in Kanab, Utah. In 1903 she went to Logan and worked in the Logan Temple for dead ancestors. Shelter sold her home in Kanab and moved to Salt Lake City. She lived with her daughter Editha and family. She did good work in the Temple for years. She lived till her 83rd birthday had passed in 1921.

She with her daughter Editha, her husband's daughter Anna and Anna's husband were all killed by a street car on State Street and 21st South. They were all out for an automobile ride. Anna's husband, Hyrum Shumway was driving the auto, when they crossed the track, the street car hit them and killed them all. Two of her great grandsons were in the car, but being small their grandmother, Editha, threw them out of the auto before the street car hit them. Mandana had always lived an honorable life, and always helped the distressed. Her door was always open to everyone. She was by all who loved her, mourned, If her children and children's descendants will follow her good examples they will all have honest upright lives and be true to the gospel she thought so much of.

  This sketch was written by her daughter Lovina in 1931

Daughter of Justin Jared Merrill and Annie Lovina Manchester

Married - Nephi Johnson, 4 Jan 1856, Cedar City, Iron, Utah

Children - Sixtus Ellis Johnson, Lillian Camilla Johnson, Susan Ellen Johnson, Mandana Editha Johnson, Seth Johnson, Nephi Johnson, Joel Hills Johnson, William Wallace Johnson, Justin Merrill Johnson, Lovinnia Ann Johnson

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Mandana Rebecca Johnson's Timeline

1838
October 4, 1838
Shelby, Macomb, Michigan, United States
1847
1847
Age 8
1856
December 16, 1856
Cedar City, Iron County, UT, United States
1857
March 21, 1857
Age 18
1858
November 11, 1858
Fort Johnson, Iron, Utah
1860
November 16, 1860
Virgin City, Washington, Utah
1862
November 28, 1862
Virgin City, Washington, Utah
1865
May 15, 1865
Virgin City, Washington, Utah
1867
April 3, 1867
Virgin City, Washington, Utah