Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 11, p.568 Julia Ann, daughter of Almon W. and Julia Ann Johnson Babbitt, was born December 27, 1849, in Nauvoo. She spent part of her early childhood in Kanesville and Salt Lake. After the death of both father and mother, the Babbitt children remained in Council Bluffs until 1860 when they were brought to Utah in the care of Aunt Eliza, wife of Joseph E. Johnson. At the age of thirteen, Julia Ann Babbitt was living in the home of an uncle, Benjamin Johnson in Spring Lake, and wrote the following letter to her Aunt Almera, her mother's sister, and her cousin: July 27, 1867, Spring Lake Villa, Utah My dear Aunt and Cousin:–I will now try and answer your letters and hope you will forgive my long delay in not answering them before; but it was on the account of not having stamps and papers. My brother Don expects to start to the city next week, then we will have some. So you must not think hard of me for writing two letters together. Oh! Dear! I have the head-ache so bad today I can hardly see to write, and there is nothing of much importance to write about only the grand wedding which came off last Monday, and the happy couple was cousin David Wilson and Julia Johnson. At the dance in the evening we had a jolly good time, and many times I wished you were here. But never mind when it comes my wedding I will send for you, if that day ever comes. There is a good deal of talk lately about Cena stepping off with my brother Almon. Then if she does I will be lonesome, but nevertheless I like to have a good many sisters. Oh! Cena has come in and seen my letter and giving me fits for writing about her. But you know I have to tell everything I know. Especially anything of that kind. I do wish you could come and make us a visit. I do think this is the prettiest place I ever saw. It's getting quite a place, at least it will be when they all get through building. I think I shall stay here this summer. Aunt Jane wants me to come and live with her, but I'm very well contented with my home at present. I have just come from getting supper, and just looked over Cena's letter. I think she better deny it. I wish you were here to see them together and I do not think you would doubt it. If she has written anything about me, you need not believe it because it is not so. I have no beaux. If you have more than you need I wish you would send me one. I guess I have written enough nonsense for one time. You wrote me that Nathan was married but you did not say who the happy wife was. You need not be surprised some day to see me there, for I do want to come and make you a visit. Nanna (Nancy) sends her love to you. I guess she will write you. You would hardly know her. She is most as tall as I am. You spoke of me not doing anything about my fortune. I only know there is some coming to us when we are of age, it will be quite a while before I am 21. I never hear from cousin Della Barton. Why she don't write? I'm ashamed to send this letter. If you can make it out you can do better than I can. How did you spend the twenty-fourth of July? I went to Payson and spent the day and enjoyed myself best kind. I will stop and let Nana write to you. Love to Vida and yourselves. So Goodbye. Write if you think this worth answering. Ever your loving niece and cousin, Julia Ann Babbitt. Julia Ann lived with relatives until her marriage December 27, 1869, to David William Johnson, son of Joel Hills Johnson and Susan Bryant. Julia, a small woman with dark brown eyes and hair, and her husband who was six feet two inches tall, made a handsome couple. A blacksmith especially qualified in making wagons, David enjoyed frontier life and moved frequently to unsettled regions. David and Julia were called to settle in northern Arizona in 1877, later moving to Round Valley, Arizona, finally settling in Mesa where Julia expected to live permanently; however, they moved to Old Mexico in 1890. Here in Colonia Diaz their only living son, David William, died from t yphoid fever at the age of eighteen. The father and mother were grief-stricken, but endured their sorrow in the typical pioneer fashion as having been the will of the Lord. The Johnsons prospered in Mexico where David operated a fine ranch. Besides raising their own family, Julia Ann and her husband gave a home to six orphaned children by the name of Foster. Through the love and training received at the Johnson home during the five years they lived there, the Foster children became fine citizens and Church members. Julia Ann gave service to the sick, often spending a week or so at a time away from her home. On December 27, 1905, a flood destroyed the Johnson farm, necessitating their moving down the river to Morales where another start was made. Later they moved to the small Mexican village, San Jose, a short distance from Morales, where Julia Ann, who had been failing in health, died March 24, 1912. Her husband passed away in Mesa, Arizona, March 24, 1924.