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Jenny June Johnson

Jenny June Johnson was born to Asahel Johnson and Elizabeth Engerson Johnson, and has siblings George Grant Johnson, Portia Johnson, Burr B. Johnson, Franklin F. Johnson, and Lorel L. Johnson. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jenny June Johnson.

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Introduction

Jenny June (Aunt Jenny) was a remarkable woman. She was very well regarded by the Navajo nation. Apparently, she and Portia would travel to the reservations and attempt to to convert them to Christianity..whether or not it worked, she was well liked anyway. Strangely enough my cousin John Milligan also worked with Navajo people in Arizona in the late 1970's and they knew who she was! Years later, we found a Navajo lullaby she had copied in the Navajo language on a piece of notebook paper. I think the nursery rhyme, "Rock a By Bye Baby" was based on this lullaby. John's wife still has it. I've met Jenny several times and even though I was very young, I clearly remember her visits. All of us looked forward to seeing her again. She was deaf and used an ear horn. She also read lips..I asked her once when we were talking and noticed she didn't have her ear horn, how she could hear us and she told me that she could read my lips if I looked at her face while talking. I remember the time at one of our thanksgiving dinners, I was sitting in a high chair trying to get a radish onto my fork. The radish rolled off my plate and onto the tray and still I chased that radish. Finally, one of the adults noticed and said "Christine, for heaven's sake, what are you doing?". "Trying to get the radish". "Just pick it up!". "I can't". "Why? " My mommy said if she catches us eating with our hands, she'll knock our teef down our froats!". Then Gigi exclaimed "Nancy, what a way to talk to your children!". Aunt Jenny said "it worked didn't it?'. Everyone howled and I picked up the radish. I have a picture of Aunt Jenny standing outside next to a small bare tree. On a branch of this tree was hung a basket and in that basket was a small dog. The dog looked like Toto in the Wizard of Oz. The dog looked bemused but quite content to humor her mistress and Jenny had a look on her face that made me laugh out loud. We have a letter from Jenny in my grandmother's trunk. The letter was written at Gig's (my grandmother) request who wanted the history of Jenny's home life. It's a marvelous letter with some juicy bits especially one about Portia. I never met Portia as she died a year before I was born. We do have photos of her and I always thought she looked kind of crazed and I wondered what happened to her. I have an idea but that's all it is, an idea, I wonder if her siblings knew. Portia and Jenny are buried in the same grave and I get very sad when I see the photo.. Jenny died when I was five and I wonder why I have such vivid memories of her. I was probably 3 years old when I ate the radish.
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