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Pioneer Database

1847–1868

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Birth Date
2 August 1819
Death Date
13 August 1900
Gender
Female
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Flora Clarinda Johnson


Alternate Names

    Flora Clarinda Gleason

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  • Flora Clarinda was one of the wives of Benjamin Franklin Johnson. According the Camp of Israel schedule and reports, she and her daughter Huetta (on the report as "Clarinda H. Gleeson") were assigned to the and traveled with Flora's brother-in-law, Joel. As such, she and Huetta are grouped with Joel and his family in the database.

    Flora left her husband Benjamin and the company on the trail.  She married Abraham Washburn in 1849.

Willard Richards Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 28

Traveled with

  • Joel Hills Johnson (Age: 46)
  • Susan Johnson (Age: 35)
  • Janette Johnson (Age: 20)
  • Sixtus Ellis Johnson (Age: 18)
  • Sariah Anna Johnson (Age: 16)
  • Nephi Johnson (Age: 14)
  • Seth Johnson Sr. (Age: 9)
  • Julia Anna Johnson (Age: 1)
  • Huetta Clarinda Johnson (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Sanpete County.
  • Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life's Review (Independence: Zion's Printing & Publ. Co., 1947), 121-23.
  • Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Pioneer emigration list 1847-1848, 118, in Docket book 1844 Feb.-1845 May.
  • "Two Church Veterans Gone to a Well Deserved Rest," Deseret Evening News , 16 Aug. 1900, 7.
  • Utah Cemetery Inventory