No headstone for son Fred (1885-1936) or infant Henry (born 1896) or daughters Maggie Olson (1883-1969).

HEADSTONE says father.

OBITUARY Iron River Reporter Dec 1 1939 “August Johnson, Pioneer, Is Dead: Native Of Sweden Was The First To Settle Here With His Family”
August Johnson, 84, who brought his wife and children into Iron River by sleigh 57 years ago and built the first home in this community for them, died yesterday morning at 11 o’clock at his farm home at Ice Lake.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the home and at 2 o’clock from the First Lutheran church. Mr. Johnson was a charter member of the church. The Rev. Carl I. Fant will officiate and interment will be in Resthaven cemetery.
The venerable pioneer had been in ill health for seven years. Death was due to the infirmities of old age.
Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden at Kopperberg, Vestermaland on Feb. 6, 1855. He would have observed his 85th birthday in two months. As a young lad he obtained employment in the Iron mines of Sweden and suffered the loss of one eye at the age of 12 when a flake of steel chipped from a drill he was holding and entered his eye. But the loss did not prevent him from becoming a strong, adventurous pioneer in America.
ARRIVED IN WINTER He was married on Dec. 26, 1876 in Sweden. Later Mr. and Mrs. Johnson came to Florence, Wis. Then he continued alone to Iron River, arriving in the dead of winter in 1882. He brought his wife and children here on March 30, six weeks later, and built a home near the present intersection of Cayuga and Seventh avenue. While other men had come here before him, Johnson was the first to bring his family and settle in their own home.
Some years later he moved to a homestead in Section Three of Stambaugh township, only to find that through land swindle three other families had been sold the same tract of ground. Then he took his family to a homestead north of the Homer mine. The family still owns the land.
Then in 1900 he bought the property on the south edge of Ice lake and established a farm. In 1925 he retired from active operation of the farm and its dairy business and turned the property over to his sons, John and Robert.
FOR 40 YEARS Mrs. Johnson died Nov. 10, 1935 at the age of 80. The elderly couple often recalled for the benefit of their children and grandchildren the day when they entered the Iron River valley by wagon and sleigh for the first time.
Mr. Johnson was a subscriber to The Reporter for more than 40 years.
In recent years since the death of his wife, he has resided at the farm home of his sons Andrew, Robert and John. Andrew is an employe of the Davidson mine.
Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is survived by five daughters, five sons, 34 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. His children are: Mrs. Emanuel Krans, Mrs. Arthur W. Johnson, Mrs. Hulda Erickson, Andrew, Robert, Charles and John all of Iron River, Walter of Two Rivers, Wis., Mrs. Maggie Olson of Hibbing, and Mrs. Edna Miller of Oldwick, N.J.
Mr. Johnson was the last of a large family. An elder brother Charles died last year in Minnesota.
The body will be removed to the home late today from the Johns Funeral home. Six grandsons will be pallbearers at the rites Sunday.

BATES TOWNSHIP LEGACY 1885-1985 centennial book "Earliest Property Owners" page 16 (extract)
The earliest settlement was confined largely to Township 43, Range 34. Following is a list of the early families in Bates and dates of land purchased. Many of them had settled earlier than the date of the transfer of property indicates.
1890 August Johnson 160 acres in Section 30

OBITUARY of John Johnson 1958 says August Johnson of Ice Lake was his father.

OBITUARY of Robert Johnson 1955 says August Johnson was his father.

OBITUARY of Caroline Johnson 1935 says she married August Johnson on Dec 28 1876. Five years later they left Sweden for the US with the oldest 2 boys, arriving first in Florence WI in 1881, and in Iron River on March 30 1882 in Iron River. They lived briefly in a roofless shack behind the present Piper House, but soon homesteaded on section three in Stambaugh township. The farm was not satisfactory and a little later they homesteaded in the Iron Lake area. In 1900 they moved to the home on the shores of Ice lake, and In 1925 they retired from active farming and turned over operation of their dairy business to two sons.

INFORMATION FROM RELATIVE great-grandson David Wallace ([email protected]) of Flushing MI.

INFORMATION FROM WAYNE OHLSSON at www.rootsweb.com for Anders August Jansson says born Feb 6 1855 in Norrfall, Ljusnarsberg, Örebro, Sweden (Lusnarsberg is sometimes called Kopparberg). Came to US April 9 1880. 13 children.