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Alma H. JOHNSON (1890-1918)

1I1. Alma H. Johnson was born in February 1890 probably in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She died in 1918 at the age of 28 and was buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Ida J. JOHNSON (1894-1918)

1I2. Ida J. Johnson was born in November 1894, probably in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She died in 1918 at the age of 23 and was buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Peter JOHNSON (~1895-1898)

1I3. Peter Johnson was born in 1895, probably in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He died 3 years later in 1898 and is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Daisy Loretta (JOHNSON) HOPKINS^Δ (1898-1990)

1K1. Daisy Loretta Johnson^Δ was born on March 31, 1898, in California, likely in Mariposa County. She was likely named in remembrance of her maternal aunt Daisy Converse, who died in childhoon. Daisy married Floyd Valentine Hopkins (Sr.), a native of York County, Nebraska, about 1920 and had two sons:

1K11.	Jack Rogers HopkinsΔ	28 Dec 1920	30 Mar 2006	(85)
1K12.	Floyd J. Hopkins, Jr.	16 May 1922	19 Feb 2008	(85)

Jack and Floyd Jr., circa 1924

Prior to their marriage, Daisy worked as an accountant at a cannery in Coulterville.^{[Cen 1920A]} Floyd worked as a rivet heater at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., in Alameda County, California, during World War I^{[Draft 1918]}, and after the war he worked as a fireman at a milk condensery in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.^{[Cen 1920B]}

After their marriage, the Hopkins started their family in Modesto, but by 1930 they moved south to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, where they resided at 1437 West 58 Place, in South Los Angeles.^{[Cen 1930]}

Next the Hopkins family moved back north to Fresno, Fresno County, California, by 1935; but afterward returned to Los Angeles where they lived at 1456 North Curson Avenue in West Hollywood. Floyd worked on his own as a furniture manufacturer, son Jack worked as machine operator at a plastic manufacturer, and Floyd Jr. worked as a pin setter at a bowling alley.^{[Cen 1940]}

The family moved about 13 miles south to 244 East 65th Street in South Los Angeles, by 1942, where Floyd manufactured wood products 2 miles east at 1645 East Slauson Avenue. Son Jack worked as a clerk and Floyd Jr. worked as a photographer.^{[City 1942]}

Daisy and Floyd divorced in the early 1940s. Floyd moved to Bakersfield, Kern County, and later remarried to Emma Lydia (Barnard) McCord (1901-1986), a divorcée from Oklahoma, on August 22, 1947, in Los Angeles.^{[Mar 1947]}

Son Jack served in the Navy as a photographer's mate (PhoM 1) during World War II.

Floyd Valentine Hopkins died on September 6, 1960, in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. He was 61 years old. Floyd was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County.^[Grave]

Daisy Loretta (Johnson) Hopkins died on December 28, 1990, in Santa Clara County, California. She is buried at Modesto Citizens Cemetery in Modesto, where her parents are buried.^[Grave]

Peter Carl JOHNSON^Δ (1904-1993)

1K2. Peter "Pete" Carl Johnson^Δ was born on April 29, 1904, in California, likely in Mariposa County. He first married Lillian Esther Brown, reportedly in October 1922, and Alameda County California; but the marriage dissolved by 1926. Pete later married Opal Mae McKinley, a native of Missouri, on July 2, 1928, and they had two daughters before they divorced in 1948:

Pete Johnson with mother Ida
and daughter Dorothy, circa 1933

Pete and Lillian married on either October 20 or 30, 1922, in Alameda County California. They were both 18 years old. Their marriage dissolved by around 1926. Lillian remarried by 1935 and had one daughter. She married twice more before her death in Sacramento on October 6, 1979, at the age of 75.

Pete and Opal married on July 2, 1928. He was 24 years old and she was 18. The Johnsons started their family in Salinas, Monterey County, California, where daughter Dorothy was born. They later moved north to the East Bay at Alameda, Alameda County.

In 1940, Pete worked as a road construction foreman in San Francisco and at the time lived at a lodging house at 830 Victoria Street.^{[Cen 1940A]} Meanwhile, Opal and their two daughters lived with Opal's widowed father Claude C. McKinley at 217 Park Street back in Salinas.^{[Cen 1940B]}

Peter and Opal divorced in 1948, a few months after their 20th anniversary.

After their divorce, Opal and their two daughters lived at 1322 Juanita, in the Alisal neighborhood of Salinas, Monterey County, California. 1322 Juanita is no longer named as such, but their house was enumerated between 54 Midway Avenue and 1408 1st Avenue. Opal worked in Salinas as a lettuce trimmer and daughter Dorothy, age 20, worked in the auto finance department of a bank.^{[Cen 1950]}

Opal Mae (McKinley) Johnson died on November 28, 1986, in Salinas. She was 77 years old. Her ashes were flown in an airplane and spread over the Pacific Ocean.

Peter later lived in Turlock, Stanislaus County, California.

Peter Carl Johnson died on January 11, 1993, in Tuolumne County, California, and is believed to be buried at Modesto Citizens Cemetery in Modesto, Stanislaus County, along with his sister and parents; however, the absence of a death year on his headstone introduces doubt as to whether or not he is actually buried there. Peter was 88 years old.