Resting Place By The Lake LbNA #55944 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 5, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Lake Odessa |
| County: | Ionia |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | -Rally Monkey-  |
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| Found by: | hppy2Bmom |
| Last found: | Oct 7, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFma |
| Last edited: | Sep 5, 2010 |
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Off of M-50 on the east side of town, you will find Cemetery Road; your gateway to the Lakeside Cemetery and the beginning of your quest.
Just a short drive down aisle 4 to the west, you will find a monument in need of a shave as your starting point. Walking back in the direction that brought you here down Cemetery Road, the last corridor of trees is your turning point.
As you head west through the tunnel of trees, watch your step to avoid the plethora of roots; until you reach the big one on the left. From this Root you should be able to spot (a clue) a large cat [it’s a sic] and a Bell tower one row over.
Continuing toward the lake and down the hill, you’ll find the Johnson’s. From their children’s resting place (story below) and up past Stowell, you may be tempted to take a break or even book a room, but don’t stop there because you’re in search of a “home builder.”
Noting the day of the wife’s passing, head towards the lake that many steps to gain a view of a big, bronze marble ball and proceed in that direction. Continue past the ball and when given the opportunity, go Rush, not Wright to find the book of Bauman.
Passing in front of the book should lead you to a “mineral extractor” and Ester and Eliza across the road. You will need the difference in years of their passing and take that number of steps down the path in front of little Brown. This should lead you to a quintuplet of tree trunks to find “Resting Place By The Lake”
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Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Royal - 4 Children Killed
LAKE ODESSA STUNNED BY WORST ACCIDENT IN HISTORY OF VILLAGE. STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE DEEPEST SYMPATHY OF ENTIRE COMMUNITY
Never in the history of Lake Odessa have the people been so shocked by an accident as they were Tuesday over the instant killing of four of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Johnson, by the east bound flier Tuesday noon.
Monday forenoon Royal Johnson drove home a new Chevrolet sedan from Good Brothers garage and on Tuesday four of his children who had been at their grandmother's, Mrs. Abigail Johnson's for dinner, got into the car for a ride. Another child, Betty, 10 years, we are told, got in the car but changed her mind and remained at her grandmother's.
The oldest child was Benjamin, 12, the driver of the car, Jerry, 8, Chas. Royal, 3, and Harriett Abigail, 1 1/2 years. The children left the elder Johnson home and drove down town going round by the Canning factory. When hear the crossing, witnesses of the catastrophe say the boy stopped his car and looked both way; however, a cattle car at his left obscured his vision of the track to a large extent. He started to cross; when fairly on the track, the east bound flyer crashed into them, the engine carrying the car on its "catcher" for about a quarter of a mile, the bodies of the children being thrown along the track, every one of them being mangled in a frightful manner.
A crowd soon gathered and the remains were taken to the Wortley and Baine undertaking rooms, where they were cared for. The two younger children were made presentable for viewing the remains, but the two older boys could not be recognized.
In almost no time after the car was struck the father of the children and their uncle Frank Johnson were upon the scene and the sorrow they suffered caused the stoutest heart to grow faint.
Coroner B.J. Boynton of Ionia, impaneled a jury consisting of Floyd Gates, Chet Yager, C.A. Hoffman, R.C. Smith, Geo. Reiser and Jason Peacock. An inquest was asked by Pros. Atty. Miller, who under the present law must order such proceedings.
The accident was witnessed by Chas. Begerow, Fred Bulling and a Mr. McDonald of Voight Milling Co.
To remove the auto from the front of the locomotive required a switch engine which was on the tracks here at the time. Good Bros. were soon on the scene and removed the completely wrecked car from the tracks.
A private funeral was held at the home one-half mile north of the railroad track where the accident occurred, Wednesday afternoon. Out of respect and deep sympathy for the parents and friends the stores were closed from 2:30 until 3:30, the time of the funeral.
The Johnson family are old residents here. Royal Johnson is a mail carrier and a member of the board of education. There are two remaining children, Robert, 14, and Betty, 10 years old.
The brothers, Frank and Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Von Furniss of Nashville, with the sisters Alta and Gail and the grandmother are very closely associated and the children were great favorites of all, especially of the grandmother.
There are six crossings in, and near Lake Odessa, and each one now claims its victims.
Off of M-50 on the east side of town, you will find Cemetery Road; your gateway to the Lakeside Cemetery and the beginning of your quest.
Just a short drive down aisle 4 to the west, you will find a monument in need of a shave as your starting point. Walking back in the direction that brought you here down Cemetery Road, the last corridor of trees is your turning point.
As you head west through the tunnel of trees, watch your step to avoid the plethora of roots; until you reach the big one on the left. From this Root you should be able to spot (a clue) a large cat [it’s a sic] and a Bell tower one row over.
Continuing toward the lake and down the hill, you’ll find the Johnson’s. From their children’s resting place (story below) and up past Stowell, you may be tempted to take a break or even book a room, but don’t stop there because you’re in search of a “home builder.”
Noting the day of the wife’s passing, head towards the lake that many steps to gain a view of a big, bronze marble ball and proceed in that direction. Continue past the ball and when given the opportunity, go Rush, not Wright to find the book of Bauman.
Passing in front of the book should lead you to a “mineral extractor” and Ester and Eliza across the road. You will need the difference in years of their passing and take that number of steps down the path in front of little Brown. This should lead you to a quintuplet of tree trunks to find “Resting Place By The Lake”
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Johnson, Mr. & Mrs. Royal - 4 Children Killed
LAKE ODESSA STUNNED BY WORST ACCIDENT IN HISTORY OF VILLAGE. STRICKEN PARENTS HAVE DEEPEST SYMPATHY OF ENTIRE COMMUNITY
Never in the history of Lake Odessa have the people been so shocked by an accident as they were Tuesday over the instant killing of four of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Johnson, by the east bound flier Tuesday noon.
Monday forenoon Royal Johnson drove home a new Chevrolet sedan from Good Brothers garage and on Tuesday four of his children who had been at their grandmother's, Mrs. Abigail Johnson's for dinner, got into the car for a ride. Another child, Betty, 10 years, we are told, got in the car but changed her mind and remained at her grandmother's.
The oldest child was Benjamin, 12, the driver of the car, Jerry, 8, Chas. Royal, 3, and Harriett Abigail, 1 1/2 years. The children left the elder Johnson home and drove down town going round by the Canning factory. When hear the crossing, witnesses of the catastrophe say the boy stopped his car and looked both way; however, a cattle car at his left obscured his vision of the track to a large extent. He started to cross; when fairly on the track, the east bound flyer crashed into them, the engine carrying the car on its "catcher" for about a quarter of a mile, the bodies of the children being thrown along the track, every one of them being mangled in a frightful manner.
A crowd soon gathered and the remains were taken to the Wortley and Baine undertaking rooms, where they were cared for. The two younger children were made presentable for viewing the remains, but the two older boys could not be recognized.
In almost no time after the car was struck the father of the children and their uncle Frank Johnson were upon the scene and the sorrow they suffered caused the stoutest heart to grow faint.
Coroner B.J. Boynton of Ionia, impaneled a jury consisting of Floyd Gates, Chet Yager, C.A. Hoffman, R.C. Smith, Geo. Reiser and Jason Peacock. An inquest was asked by Pros. Atty. Miller, who under the present law must order such proceedings.
The accident was witnessed by Chas. Begerow, Fred Bulling and a Mr. McDonald of Voight Milling Co.
To remove the auto from the front of the locomotive required a switch engine which was on the tracks here at the time. Good Bros. were soon on the scene and removed the completely wrecked car from the tracks.
A private funeral was held at the home one-half mile north of the railroad track where the accident occurred, Wednesday afternoon. Out of respect and deep sympathy for the parents and friends the stores were closed from 2:30 until 3:30, the time of the funeral.
The Johnson family are old residents here. Royal Johnson is a mail carrier and a member of the board of education. There are two remaining children, Robert, 14, and Betty, 10 years old.
The brothers, Frank and Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Von Furniss of Nashville, with the sisters Alta and Gail and the grandmother are very closely associated and the children were great favorites of all, especially of the grandmother.
There are six crossings in, and near Lake Odessa, and each one now claims its victims.