Vincent married Angeline Veronica Weightman in 1909. They had six children, Helen, Vera, Blanche, Joanne, Dwight and Richard.
Vincent and Angeline met at the Weightman family restaurant where Angeline worked. Vincent operated a delivery service and hauled merchandise from the railroad to the nine or ten local merchants in Lemmon, SD. He owned four or five horses, a couple of watgons and a snow sled. One of his wagons had once been an undertaker's hearse.
After the couple married, they lived on a small farm at the edge of town. They gardened and sold milk and eggs to supplement their income. The house had an outside storm cellar and they often had to take shelter from dangerous prairie storms.
Angeline started a school for the homesteading families. She taught her students basic education, German and English languages, and to play the piano.
Vincent hunted moose and elk. In the winter they would salt the meat and store it in large 30 gallon boiler pots. They buried the pots in peat bogs near the swamps. During the summer months the meat was padked in lard and buried.
Around 1917 Vincent got a free land grant for 300 acres in Minnesota. Part of the contract was that they live on the land for 30 days of each year. They would go there during the summer and live in a tent or cabin.
In 1923 the Johnson family moved badk East to Oil Town (Oil City), Pennsylvania. They lost most of their money drilling oil wells on their farm. Vince and Angie then moved their family to Radebaugh, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They built their home there in 1925 and lived there when Richard and Joanne were born. They remained there to the end of their lives.
Vincent and Angeline met at the Weightman family restaurant where Angeline worked. Vincent operated a delivery service and hauled merchandise from the railroad to the nine or ten local merchants in Lemmon, SD. He owned four or five horses, a couple of watgons and a snow sled. One of his wagons had once been an undertaker's hearse.
After the couple married, they lived on a small farm at the edge of town. They gardened and sold milk and eggs to supplement their income. The house had an outside storm cellar and they often had to take shelter from dangerous prairie storms.
Angeline started a school for the homesteading families. She taught her students basic education, German and English languages, and to play the piano.
Vincent hunted moose and elk. In the winter they would salt the meat and store it in large 30 gallon boiler pots. They buried the pots in peat bogs near the swamps. During the summer months the meat was padked in lard and buried.
Around 1917 Vincent got a free land grant for 300 acres in Minnesota. Part of the contract was that they live on the land for 30 days of each year. They would go there during the summer and live in a tent or cabin.
In 1923 the Johnson family moved badk East to Oil Town (Oil City), Pennsylvania. They lost most of their money drilling oil wells on their farm. Vince and Angie then moved their family to Radebaugh, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They built their home there in 1925 and lived there when Richard and Joanne were born. They remained there to the end of their lives.
Vincent married Angeline Veronica Weightman in 1909. They had six children, Helen, Vera, Blanche, Joanne, Dwight and Richard.
Vincent and Angeline met at the Weightman family restaurant where Angeline worked. Vincent operated a delivery service and hauled merchandise from the railroad to the nine or ten local merchants in Lemmon, SD. He owned four or five horses, a couple of watgons and a snow sled. One of his wagons had once been an undertaker's hearse.
After the couple married, they lived on a small farm at the edge of town. They gardened and sold milk and eggs to supplement their income. The house had an outside storm cellar and they often had to take shelter from dangerous prairie storms.
Angeline started a school for the homesteading families. She taught her students basic education, German and English languages, and to play the piano.
Vincent hunted moose and elk. In the winter they would salt the meat and store it in large 30 gallon boiler pots. They buried the pots in peat bogs near the swamps. During the summer months the meat was padked in lard and buried.
Around 1917 Vincent got a free land grant for 300 acres in Minnesota. Part of the contract was that they live on the land for 30 days of each year. They would go there during the summer and live in a tent or cabin.
In 1923 the Johnson family moved badk East to Oil Town (Oil City), Pennsylvania. They lost most of their money drilling oil wells on their farm. Vince and Angie then moved their family to Radebaugh, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They built their home there in 1925 and lived there when Richard and Joanne were born. They remained there to the end of their lives.
Vincent and Angeline met at the Weightman family restaurant where Angeline worked. Vincent operated a delivery service and hauled merchandise from the railroad to the nine or ten local merchants in Lemmon, SD. He owned four or five horses, a couple of watgons and a snow sled. One of his wagons had once been an undertaker's hearse.
After the couple married, they lived on a small farm at the edge of town. They gardened and sold milk and eggs to supplement their income. The house had an outside storm cellar and they often had to take shelter from dangerous prairie storms.
Angeline started a school for the homesteading families. She taught her students basic education, German and English languages, and to play the piano.
Vincent hunted moose and elk. In the winter they would salt the meat and store it in large 30 gallon boiler pots. They buried the pots in peat bogs near the swamps. During the summer months the meat was padked in lard and buried.
Around 1917 Vincent got a free land grant for 300 acres in Minnesota. Part of the contract was that they live on the land for 30 days of each year. They would go there during the summer and live in a tent or cabin.
In 1923 the Johnson family moved badk East to Oil Town (Oil City), Pennsylvania. They lost most of their money drilling oil wells on their farm. Vince and Angie then moved their family to Radebaugh, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They built their home there in 1925 and lived there when Richard and Joanne were born. They remained there to the end of their lives.
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