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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:694Search: Full Last First
id 694 lastname Johnson firstname Julia H. sex f birth_date 1829.12.13 birth_place Rochester, Monroe Co, NY date_admitted 1834c covenant_signed 1865.12.25 shaker_residences Tyringham 1834-1860. Hancock 1860, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1876 health Tailoress, 1870 census. occupation From Rochester, Monroe Co, NY, Names, Ages & Birth Places, OClWHi.III:A-8. Adm Tyringham with 2 younger sisters c1834; with Shakers 42 years, Julia Johnson, 'Reminiscences of Shaker Life,' The Credit Foncier of Sinaloa 4.24 (September 1, 1889), 185-86, 189. Wrote of the Era of Manifestations: Julia Johnson, “Tyringham,†in Henry Blinn, Manifestation of Spiritualism Among the Shakers, 1837-1847 (East Canterbury, NH, 1899), 77-88. Wrote poetry book (1855), OClWHi.X:B-19. The Chh made a present to Julia H. Johnson of $250 & the East Family $50 'to assist her in taking care of Henrietta Johnson her mother,' 1856.02.10, HSV.861-a. Moved from Tyringham 2d Family to Chh Family 1856.11.12, NOC.TDM. Released as Tyringham Chh Eldress 1860.10.21 & moved to Hancock 1860.12.05, NOC.TDM. 1865 MA census, Hancock family 161: age 35, born NY state. Signed covenant 1865.12.25, NOC.13,602, p56. 1870 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 96: age 39, tailoress, born NY. Named deaconess, 1872.02.11, NOC.10,467. 'Chh Elders from Hancock and Julia Johnson come over to make a Chh visit & especially to see the Ministry concerning Mariah Doane,' Watervliet, NY 1874.01.06, OClWHi.V:B-120. Left the Shakers ca. 1876 (see her 1889 reminiscences). Wrote newspaper article, 'More About the Shakers,' Berkshire Gleaner (Lee, MA), July 11, 1906, p. 1.
Village:Tyringham, MA Source:whrsreel:007930Search: Full Last First