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Personal data Phoebe Moten 

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Household of Phoebe Moten

She is married to James Preston Johnson.

They got married on April 20, 1901 at Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois, she was 21 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Preston Johnson  1903-1965
  2. Howard L. Johnson  1904-> 1920
  3. Cecil C Johnson  ± 1904-
  4. Calio Lewis Johnson  1906-1978
  5. Aaro Johnson  ± 1906-
  6. William R Johnson  ± 1906-
  7. Charles Johnson  1907-1908
  8. Clifford Johnson  1908-1909
  9. Archie W Johnson  ± 1908-
  10. Mary Lucy Johnson  1910-1911
  11. Fay Johnson  ± 1910-
  12. Astor Q Johnson  1911-1968
  13. Bate Johnson  1912-
  14. Esther Cora Johnson  1912-1980
  15. Hesterly P Johnson  ± 1912-
  18. Carrie Ruth Johnson  1916-1983
  20. James Johnson  1921-1973


Notes about Phoebe Moten

"Phoebe Moten....was born on December 17, 1879. Phoebe would take her first steps in Villa Ridge, a tiny hamlet in Pulaski County, Illinois...." p. 19 "On April 20, 1901, just a month before James's twenty-second birthday, the couple got married before a police magistrate in Edwardsville." p.31
"Phoebe died on June 19, 1946, on a blustery spring morning, just a few hours after midnight. She was sixty-six. The cause of death was myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart. ...she died in Englewood, a predominently white neighborhood on the Sout Side [of Chicago].....[She] was buried at Lincoln Cemetery on the South Side." p. 103
SOURCE: Swarns, Rachel L. AMERICAN TAPESTRY: THE STORY OF THE BLACK, WHITE, AND MULTIRACIAL ANCESTORS OF MICHELLE OBAMA NY, NY: Amistad/Harper Collins, 2012
AMERICAN TAPISTRY.The Story of Black,White,and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama by Rachel L Swarns pub 2012. PHOEBE born Dec 17, 1879, Villa Ridge,Pulaski Co,ILL.Parents: Nelson Moten (c.1830-unk,abt age 62) and Mary unk (c. 1835-unk btw 1887-1900) former slaves, poor sharecroppers, to ILL about 1863. Mary possibly part Cherokee Indian.Remarried:Jerry Suter.PHOEBE: literate,to Carbondale,m.ELBERT TAYLOR Dec 4, 1899 who died 6 months later.1900:PHOEBE in View Ridge,domestic worker.

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    Historical events

    Birthday December 17, 1879

    • The temperature on December 17, 1879 was about -7.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 22 » The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
      • March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
      • May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
      • June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
      • October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​⁄2 hours before burning out).
      • December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

    Day of marriage April 20, 1901

    • The temperature on April 20, 1901 was between 4.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (78%). Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
      • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
      • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
      • June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
      • August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
      • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

    Day of death June 19, 1946

    • The temperature on June 19, 1946 was between 8.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
      • January 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
      • March 11 » Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
      • March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
      • May 9 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
      • October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
      • December 9 » The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
    

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