Frank DuBois Jaquette, 81, of Hamilton, died Thursday morning at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital from cancer. He was born September 4, 1903 at Victor, Colorado, the son of Frank D. and Esther Jaquette. His family alter moved to Butte, Montana, graduated from high school and attended the School of Mines. He moved to the Bitter Root Valley where he devoted his time to mining and bee-keeping. On October 3, 1930 Frank married Hazel Mary Maxwell in the Bitter Root Valley.
    He is survived by two daughters, Maxine Skaw, Ovando, Montana, and Marion Mendenhall of Hamilton; 10 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his eldest daughter, Jean Wetzsteon Johnson.
Ravalli Republic, Friday, November 30, 1984
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CALLED TO REWARD. AGED RESIDENT OF HAMILTON PASSED AWAY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING.
    Shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, George Washington Jennings, another of the aged residents of the Bitter Root valley, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.C. Walbridge, on Second street, death being the result of apoplexy. The deceased had not been in good health for some time. Five years ago, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and since that time, he made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Walbridge. The direct cause of death, however, was apoplexy, with which he was afflicted only a few hours.
    Mr. Jennings had reached the advanced age of seventy-seven years, one month and fifteen days, being born in Bon Tioga County, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1833. Here he lived forty-two years when he moved to Wisconsin. Twenty years later he came to the Bitter Root valley, where he lived fifteen years. Ten years of this time, he lived at Grantsdale, following the trade of a mason. He was a member of the Grantsdale Presbyterian church and he was a devoted Christian.
    The funeral was held at the Walbridge home Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J.C. Irwin, pastor of the Hamilton Presbyterian church. The body was interred in Riverview cemetery, beside the remains of his wife, who died several years ago.
Ravalli Republican, March 4, 1910

CHARLES JOHNSON RESIDENT FOR 61 YEARS OF VALLEY CALLED BY DEATH.
    Charles G. Johnson died at his Corvallis home on Easter Sunday. He was born September 16, 1875 in Bornholm, Denmark.
  In 1897, he was married at Hamilton to Sadie Strange. They became the parents of three children who survive the parents. Mrs. Johnson died of cancer at Rochester, Minnesota in 1918.
    He is survived by his widow, Ellen; his son, Robert, a daughter, Mrs. Robert Thomas, all of Corvallis, and another daughter, Mrs. Wesley Hickey, Bozeman. Also surviving are four grandchildren. The latter are Ann, Bruce, and Craig Johnson and Janet Hickey.
    Funeral services for Mr. Johnson were held at the Dowling chapel in Hamilton Wednesday afternoon with Rev. Jesse Dove officiating. Burial was made in Corvallis cemetery. Pallbearers were Howard Boyer, Jack Korman, Eugene Doty, Fred Reinbold, Albert Hess, and Ed. O'Hare.
Abstract from: The Western News, April 9, 1953

Smothered to Death While Working in a Mine
Slide in the Curlew Mine Near Victor Caught Clarence Johnson Monday Morning
Victor, May 18 - Clarence Johnson, aged 22 years, was crushed nd smothered to death about 1:30 o’clock Monday Morning in the tailing pit at the Curlew mine northwest of Victor. Clarence, with his father, George W. Johnson, were working with the night crew at the mine. The chute became clogged and the young man went down to clean it out when in some manner, a gradual slide was started and his feet and legs were caught under the pressure. His father threw a rope to him, but was unable to pull him out. He then ran for help, but when the foreman and other help arrived, only a hand was protruding. When the young man was finally taken out at 3:30 o’clock, the body was lifeless.
    Clarence Johnson was born at Belgrade, Montana, November 16, 1892. He is survived by his father, two sisters, Margaret Johnson and Mrs. Henry Corvan, and a brother, Alvin, and a half-brother, who lives in Iowa.
    His friend, Miss Daisy Akin, of Belgrade, and his uncles, Sam and Dave Bell of Belgrade, were present for the funeral services which were held at the Presbyterian church Wednesday at 2 p.m., Rev. J.L. Reese of Stevensville officiating. The deceased was a member of the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges. Interment was made in the Victor Cemetery. Services were conducted by the joint lodges at the cemetery.
Ravalli Republican, Friday, May 19, 1916



    Funeral services for Mrs. Otto Johnson, 79, who died shortly before midnight Saturday, were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Dowling chapel. She was taken ill November 23 and was admitted to the hospital three days later. The Rev. C.J. Taber will officiated. Interment was in Riverview Cemetery. Pall bearers were David Hope, Ted LaChambre, Paul Pagenkopf, Frank Merritt, DeWitt Vial, and Miles Romney Jr.
    Mrs. Johnson was born near Oslo, Norway, February 15, 1863. She came to this country with her parents on a sailboat when four weeks old. It required six weeks for the trip. The family first located in Bloomingdale, Wisconsin. In 1890, Mrs. Johnson went to Helena from Sparta, Wisconsin, where Mr. Johnson operated a furniture store. They came here a few years later and for nearly 50 years, Mrs. Johnson has lived in the same house at 739 Main Street.
    She was a charter member of the Methodist Church here, a member of the Scandinavia fraternity, and a former member of the Rebekah lodge.
    Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Elsie Wayne, and son, Carl, at home; sons Lindahl, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Fritz R., Spokane, Washington. Fritz arrived Monday to attend the services, but Lindahl will be unable to attend because of the illness of his wife.
Ravalli Republican, December 3, 1942

George Johnson Died at Victor Tuesday Morning
Went to Work as Usual That Morning and Complaining of Pains Returned Home
Victor, November 2 - Tuesday morning, George Johnson, whose ranch is about three miles north of here, went to help a neighbor thresh, but before he arrived there, he was taken with a pain across the breast and was not able to work so returned home and about 11 o’clock passed away. He was apparently in the best of health Monday and helped thresh at his own and at a neighbor’s place. He leaves his invalid wife, two sons, Otto and Myron of Sidney, and a daughter, Mrs. Everson of Trout Creek. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock at the house and the remains will be laid to rest in the Victor cemetery.
Ravalli Republican, Friday, November 3, 1916


G.W. JOHNSON, BITTER ROOT PIONEER DIES
    Stevensville, March 26 - George W. Johnson, who has been in ill health for 10 years, died early Monday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus L. Franks with whom he lived in late years. His wife died three years ago and a daughter several years previously.
    Two daughters and two sons are yet living. They are Mrs. Cyrus L. Franks in Stevensville and Mrs. Charles Tepley of Three Mile, James Johnson, the eldest of the children living in California; Claude Johnson, the younger son, residing here.
    Mr. Johnson came here from Missouri about 59 years ago and was employed by Charles Flannigin on his farm in the Etna section. He later returned to his home in the eat and brought back his wife and the family became part of the growing community along Burnt Fork creek where he has farmed the greater part of his time as a local resident.
    He was one of the Ravalli County representatives in the legislature and assessor one term. Soon after Judge Henry L. Myers resigned from the bench in the third district court to become United States senator, Mr. Johnson was prominently mentioned as the next United States marshal but another applicant was successful in getting the appointment.
The Western News, March 28, 1929

    Jeanette "Nettie" Edith Johnson, 110 years of age, of Hamilton, died Friday, December 20, 1996 at the Valley View Estates Nursing Home, in Hamilton. She was born January 7, 1886, on the Summers Ranch in the Skalkaho Valley, the daughter of John A. and Judy Summers. On June 20, 1917, she married Harry Johnson in California.
    Surviving are two nephews, Bob Summers of Portland, Oregon and John Ashby of Tacoma, Washington; a niece Barbara Bernatz of Mesa, Arizona.
Abstract from: Ravalli Republican, December 23, 1996

J.W. JOHNSON, ONE OF BITTER ROOT'S FINEST MEN, FADES FROM LIFE PICTURE.
    J.W. Johnson died Sunday, July 21 in Daly Memorial Hospital. John William Johnson was born November 17, 1878, the first white child to be born in Phelps County, Nebraska. At Fairfield, Nebraska he met Miss Cora Willis with whom he was wed on Christmas Day, 1903 at LaMoure, North Dakota.
    J.W. Johnson is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. The children are Mrs. Glen Kohls, Hamilton; Mrs. Ansley Peirce, Spokane; Mrs. G.L. McLaren, Spokane; and William Johnson, Jr, Kooskia, Idaho. All of the children, Mr. Kohls, Mr. Peirce, and Mrs. Wm Johnson, together with some of the grandchildren, were here for the rites.
Abstract from: The Western News, July 25, 1957

Abraham L. (Abe) Johnston, 80, described in the obituary as a Pioneer Realtor in Hamilton since 1899, died on October 22, 1948, in Hamilton. His wife, Mabel C., had died on May 28, 1948.  He was survived by two sons: Joe of Spokane, WA; Robert of Hamilton; and Mrs. L.L. Davis of Hamilton.
 Independent Record, Helena, MT, October 23, 1948
Contributed by: Carol P. Garitty

Contributor's Notes:  Abraham Johnston was born about 1867 in Iowa to Robert and Sarah Selena Crowther Johnston.  Abraham and four brothers survived a typhoid epidemic in IA that claimed his mother, three sisters and another brother. Robert and the five surviving sons moved West and settled in MT and CA. Abraham and Mabel are buried in the Hamilton Cemetery, Ravalli County, MT.
Abraham's survivors would have been Joseph H. born about 1907, Robert C. born about 1903 and Mildred L. born about 1910.
     If any descendants of Abraham and Mabel and their children would care to contact me, I have additional family information to share. (Abraham's father and my great-grandfather, George Johnston, were brothers.)
                                                                                                               

Ed L. Jones, a farmer of the south Hamilton district, died at the Daly hospital Monday night from effects of a chronic ailment that necessitated amputation of his leg to halt gangrene. The amputation was made Sunday, but the inroads of the poisoning had gained too much headway and death resulted.
    Mr. Jones came here about two years ago from the Blackfoot valley. He had ranched there about five years after moving west from Rygate, where he lived several years. He had following farming throughout his life and his home here ws the small truck and fruit ranch which he purchased from Roy Moore. Born November 5, 1878 at Platteville, Wisconsin, Mr. Jones was nearing his sixtieth year.
Surviving family members are the wife, and a son Rex of Hamilton, and a son Robert, who arrived Tuesday from his home at Helmville for the last rites.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Dowling chapel with an old-time friend, Mrs. Rose Williams of Rygate giving the last tribute. Pallbeares were Otto and Dick Kent, Joseph Gaffney, Charles Clements, J.E. Dresel and Hugh MacMillan. Burial was in Riverview Cemetery.
Ravalli Republican, Thursday, June 23, 1938
                                                                                                  

DEATH OF MOTHER
Mrs. S. Jorgensen Passed Away at Hospital
Last Rites Held Tuesday Afternoon for Young Matron and Burial Was Made in Corvallis.
    Spotted fever claimed its first victim in the Bitter Root Valley this year with the death Sunday afternoon of Mrs. May McInnis Jorgensen at the Daly Hospital. Mrs. Jorgensen had never been inoculated with the preventive vaccine, but made a heroic fight to conquer the disease and until early Sunday was thought to have a fair chance for recovery. She was brought to the hospital from her home at Stevensville the previous Monday.
    Mrs. Jorgensen was born at New Freeport, PA, May 16, 1902. She came to the Bitter Root Valley with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. McInnis, six years later. The family settled in the West Fork district, southwest of Darby. Her marriage to Mr. Jorgensen took place there nine years ago. Three children, Evangeline and Wallace, twins, and Gerald survive with the husband, the parents, two sisters, and two brothers. The sisters are Mrs. James Erickson of Wenatchee, WA, and Miss Helen McInnis, and the brothers are Jack of Seattle, and Wallace of Hamilton.
    Last rites were held at the Dowling Chapel Tuesday afternoon, Rev. H.H. Longnecker delivering the sermon. The pallbearers were A.P. Nickel, G.F. Shook, and T.E. Milburn of Darby, and James Gage, W. Shriner, and Jack Lucas of Stevensville. Burial was in the Corvallis Cemetery, where other relatives rest. With the exception of the brother in Seattle, the relatives were all present at the time of Mrs. Jorgensen's death.
Ravalli Republican, May 19, 1932