Denison
Denison Police Officer
Joseph E Johnson
18 Sep 1853 - 30 Oct 1879
Killed in the Line of Duty
Apparently
he is not in a marked grave.
Read
about his murder & Coroners Report
Obituary
Denison Daily News
Saturday
November 1, 1879
Funeral of Police Officer Joseph E.
Johnson
The
funeral of the murdered officer, Joseph E.
Johnson, took place Friday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, from the residence of
deceased on Crawford
street, and notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather, was largely
attended. The procession left the residence in
the following order:
First,
Denison Artillery company, followed by the Gate
City Guards, the
hearse, carriages containing the relatives of
the deceased, carriages
with the mayor, members of the city council,
city and county officials,
citizens in carriages and a large number on
horseback and on foot.
An
impressive funeral sermon was delivered by Rev.
Mr. Kone. Three rounds
were fired over the grave of the departed
officer by the Gate City
Guards, where the earth was heaped over his last
remains.
Officer
Joseph E. Johnson was a native Texas. He was
born in Harrison county on
the 18th day of Sept., 1853. He came to this
city about sixteen months
ago and by his gentlemanly deportment and
temperate habits soon gained
the esteem and confidence of the community. On
June 11th last when the
present city administration came into office,
Johnson was elected
Police Officer, a position which he has since
held and the duties of
which he has discharged to the perfect
satisfaction of his superiors
and in a manner which elicited the respect and
admiration of all. By
his untimely end the city has lost an able and
efficient officer,
society a useful member and the writer of this,
who, by reason of his
position was thrown in daily contact with him,
and who, during these
few months that they were thus connected, had
learned to love and
esteem him for his many noble qualities, has
lost a true and highly
valued friend, whose memory will remain dear to
him through life.
A
few weeks ago, September 18th, deceased was
united in marriage to Miss
Minnie Bailey, an estimable young lady of
Corsicana. With what anxiety
he awaited the day which was to unite him to the
being he so fervently
loved; how he saved to provide a comfortable
home for her; and now when
he had at last reached the goal of his ambition,
when he was united to
her who was so dear to him, in possession of an
honored position,
enjoying the esteem of his superiors, his
associates and of the
community in which he lived, surrounded by all
which makes life
desirable, and in the early bloom of his
manhood, to be cut down by the
hand of a miserable Negro thief, is indeed sad.
To the sorrowing
young wife, to the distressed sister, who in a
few brief months has
lost a darling husband and a dear brother, both
by Negro desperadoes,
under similar circumstances, to his young
brother and to the other
relatives, the NEWS extends its most
heartfelt sympathies.
OAKWOOD CEMETERY
Susan Hawkins
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