Notes for Lavinia Cooper: Excerpt from History of Hannah Maria Johnson Herlihy 10 Aug 01, page 5; author: Bill Herlihy:
" From Sam Johnson's 1939 letter to Hannah: ' Your Mother was Annie's (his wife's) favorite. She often spoke of her when we were in Russia. Your Mother in spite of her troubles had a happy disposition, always jolly when we visited her.'
From Dorothy Seeger's March 30, 1989 letter: ' Lavina used to talk so lovingly of the "old country" that her daughters said when they all got working they were going to send her back to England for six months. They did send her, but she only stayed six weeks. She said she couldn't stand the place! After the sunny skies here she found England's constant rain depressing. Also many of the people she was so fond of had either died or aged so much that it just wasn't the same.'
From Dorothy Seeger's October 16, 1987 letter: ' She cooked and served the family dinner at twelve o'clock and was dead at two o'clock. She had been walking around with pneumonia but didn't know it. She had been waiting for us (my Father, Mother, sister, and me) to come home from Maine where my Father was building a post office so that Mama could take her to our doctor. We got a telegram saying she was dead.'
Lavina Johnson died at age 63 of lobar pneumonia, at 1816 Gleason Avenue in the Bronx, on January 3, 1915. Her death certificate indicated she had lived in the USA and NYC for 31 years."
More About Lavinia Cooper: Burial: 06/January/1915, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.20 Residence 1: 1900, Manhattan, NYC.21 Residence 2: 1896, 314 E. 44th St., NYC, NY.
More About Lavinia Cooper and William Henry Johnson: Marriage: 08/June/1876, Parish Church, Bradford, Lancaster County, England.22, 23 Residences 1: 1900, Manhattan, NYC, NY.24 Residences 2: 1895, 310 E. 90th St., NYC, NY.25 Residences 3: 1896, 314 E. 44th St., NYC, NY & 232 E. 107th St., NYC, NY.26 Residences 4: 1897, 412 W. 28th St., NYC, NY & 317 E. 92nd St., NYC, NY.27
Marriage Notes for Lavinia Cooper and William Henry Johnson: Excerpt from Bill Herlihy's 10 Aug 01 History of Hannah Maria Johnson Herlihy, p. 10-11: " Hannah's parents were married at the Parish Church, in the Parish of Christ Church, Bradford, England."
Children of Lavinia Cooper and William Henry Johnson are:
+Hannah Maria Johnson, b. 18/May/1877, 2 Corporation St, Bradford, Yorkshire, England28, 29, d. 05/July/1947, Hampton, Elizabeth City, Elizabeth Co., VA30.
+Elizabeth Johnson, b. August/1878, London, England31, d. 29/May/1928, Palisades Park, NJ32.
Frances Johnson, b. June/188133, d. 01/May/1883, Islington, London, England34.
Minnie Johnson, b. 03/March/1883, Islington East, Middlesex, England35, d. 13/November/1918, NYC, NY36.
Beatrice Johnson, b. 17/July/1884, Manhattan, NY37, d. 25/January/1966, Creedmore State Hospital, Queens, NY38.
Edward Johnson, b. June/1886, Manhattan, NYC39, d. Bef. 1933, unknown40.
Lavinia Cooper (b. 13/January/1852, d. 03/January/1915)
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