Selected Johnston Family Pictures
With Captions and Narratives
Contributed by Bonnie Brennan.

Bonnie notes that the originals of all these pictures,
except where otherwise indicated, are held in the collection of Mildred Johnston Labue, to whom we are all grateful. Those photos produced by the Richards Gallery were probably processed at the branch office in Dushore, PA as opposed to the home office in Towanda, Bradford County, PA, some twenty miles to the north. The home office of Richards Gallery was located at the corner of Main and Bridge Streets.


Thomas Johnston (1819-1900)

Thomas Johnston was born March 28, 1819 in Scotland. He had three wives.

(1) He married CAROLINE SMITH June 3, 1838 in Glasgow (O.P.R. Marriages 644/0010420 0157 Glasgow ) She was the daughter of CHARLES SMITH and MARGARET BICKETT. She was born in 1821 in Pillau, Prussia (1855 Johnston, George (Statutory Births 424/02/0109) and died May 11, 1864 (Statutory Deaths 424/02 0064).

(2) He married JANET WYSE (Wise) in Dunfermline County of Fife, November 9, 1865 (Statutory Marriage 424/0101201). She was the daughter of Henry Wyse and Janet Dryburgh . She was born/baptized October 17,1819 in Markinch , Fife. (OPR Births 447/0020 0233 Markinch) and died April 12, 1881 in Moingona, Marcy Co., Ia. ( Burial Records Boone Co Vol 1-4, pg 527), at 61 yrs of age.

(3) He married Jannett Turnbull McRae Robb. She was born in Scotland. She previously had married George Robb on May 16,1851 (OPR Marriages 646/0030 0272). He was the son of James and Grizel (Young) Robb. She died March 6, 1893 in Bernice, Pa.

On May 21, 1900, Thomas Johnston died in Bernice, Sullivan County, PA and is buried there in the Presbyterian Cemetery on Route 487.


Janette McRae Turnbull Robb Johnston (1832-1893)

She was born April 24, 1832 in Scotland and married Thomas Johnston in 1855. She died March 5, 1893 in Bernice, PA and is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery there. She was the mother by a previous marriage of Agnes McRae Robb who subsequently married Alexander Johnston, son of Thomas Johnston and Caroline Smith.


Alexander Johnston (1861-1943)

He was born June 29, 1861 in Dunfermline, Scotland, the son of Thomas and Caroline Henrietta Smith Johnston. He came to the United States in 1884. Alexander married Agnes McRae Robb in Moingona, Iowa on July 2, 1885. He died on May 17, 1943 in Erie, PA, and is buried in the Reynoldsville Cemetery in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, PA. Alexander and Agnes had five children:

Thomas Alexander Johnston, born 03/31/1888, died 07/31/1971
Janetta (Johnston) Pierce, born May 1889, died May 1951 in Erie, PA
George Robb Johnston, born Sept. 1891, died Feb. 1943 in Erie, PA
John Robert Johnston, born 05/31/1894, died 03/07/1962
Charles Ervin Johnston, born 10/17/1897, died 06/01/1894 in Florida


Agnes McRae Robb Johnston(1857-1917)

She was born September 14, 1857 in Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of George and Janette McRae Turnbull Robb. Agnes came to the United States in 1884. She married Alexander Johnston in Moingona, Iowa on July 2, 1885. She died January 27, 1917 in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, PA and is buried in the Reynoldsville Cemetery there.

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