Submitted by
Vicki Ebert

JOHNSON - W. A. Johnson, better known as “Uncle Billy” Johnson died at the Blackwell hospital at ten o’clock Thursday morning, January 18, 1917, after an illness of almost two years. He was taken to the hospital last spring. His age at the time of death was about 75. Funeral arrangements will not be completed until his sons reach the city. A widow and six children are the survivors.