CATRON, JANE ELLEN HORSELEY JOHNSON

She was called Jennie, this tall, fair, brown-haired lady, and was the sixth child of nine.

About 1879 or 1880 her parents, Matthew and Ellen Carling Johnson, their five daugh-ters and baby Charlie arrived in London, Ontaio, from their home in Humanby, Yorkshire, England. The name of the vessel in which they traveled to America is un-known, but after two years they traveled to Pittsburgh, Pa., where they stayed for some time, then went west to Nebraska where there was newly opened land for homesteaders.

Three older brothers, George, Fred and Thomas, came later from England.

The cow's udder dragged in the sticky mud as the wagon, oxen draw, labored through the main street of Lincoln, Nebraska. The family traveled to Ogallala, Nebraska, where Mat-thew filed on a piece of property south of Ogallala, not far from Sterling, Colorado. It was here that the children grew to adulthood, and it is here on this homestead that Matthew suffered a scratch on his hand from barbed wire. It became infected and blood poisoning developed. Louise Estergreen in Tacoma, Wash., has a letter which describes how he had to soak his hand in carbolic acid an hour at a time. This infection became the reason for the sale of the ranch.

Jennie became a school teacher and taught school in Elsie, Nebraska, and other towns. Among her students was Ode Black.

In 1893 she married Edmun Enoch Catron and had six children.

She served as County Superintendent of Schools in Hooker County in 1913.