Lake County Obituaries

Sarah Jane Johnson

Submitted by Anita Crabtree

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Clear Lake Press, June 22, 1899

Sarah Jane Johnson died after a lingering and painful illness, at her home near 
Upper Lake, a little past noon, on Monday, June 18th, 1899. 
She had suffered for several years from rheumatism and afliction of the heart, 
and toward the end other complications had arisen. The course of the disease had 
been such that partial amputation of the foot was resorted to. This was 
temporarily advantageous but did not check the ravages of the destroyer. 
Paralysis at length stilled the beating heart. 
Mrs. Johnson, whose maiden name was Carpenter, was born in Rensselaer county, 
New York, April 8th, 1836. She married Mathew Johnson at Oak Grove, Missouri, 
March 17th, 1853. Coming to California in 1860, they settled in Lake county at 
first near Kelseyville and subsequently near Upper Lake. Twelve children were 
born to them. Ten of them, with the husband and father, and several 
grandchildren were with her during some of the last days she spent on earch, 
heard her parting words, and were present at the funeral. One daughter, living 
in Oregon, was denied this privilege because of sickness in her own family. 
On Tuesday, June 6th, in the presence of her household, she was baptised, and 
together with two of her daughters, received into the Presbyterian church. The 
following Sabbath, at her earnest request, the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper 
was administered to her. Thus publicly she confessed her faith in Him to whom 
she had committed the keeping of her soul. 
Kind, patient, active up to the limits of her strength while she had a measure 
of health, thoughtful of others but forgetful of herself, she was highly 
esteemed by her neighbors and beloved by her friends and the members of her own 
family. Her death leaves a void in the home made desolate and in the hearts of 
her surviving husband, her children and grandchildren that no earthly object can 
fill. But they are comforted in the thought of her happy release from pain and 
translation to a better world. They, with the sisters of the deceased, Mrs. 
Morrison and Mrs. Henderson of Kelseyville have the sympathy of the whole 
community. 
The funeral services were held in the U. B. church on Monday, at two o’clock, 
and a long train of carriages escorted the remains to the city of the dead; 
where in the narrow house with flowers strewn above, the body rests.