Cecil C. Johnston and Lillian Grace Proper

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Husband Cecil C. Johnston ¹

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           Born: 3 Aug 1879 - Hazel Dell, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jordan Johnston (1845-Aft 1908) 2 3
         Mother: Nancy Boots (Abt 1850-1904) 2 4 5

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       Marriage: 12 Aug 1901 2

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Wife Lillian Grace Proper ²

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         Father: William Proper (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Henry Cecil Johnston ²

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           Born: 1 Jan 1904 2
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General Notes: Husband - Cecil C. Johnston

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He spent his boyhood days on the farm and attended the country schools and Pearsoll's Academy at West Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. He taught several terms of school prior to 1901, when he entered the Ellwood City Bank as assistant cashier, and remained there for two years, later accepting the position of assistant treasurer of the Ellwood City Trust Company, with which concern he continued until 1906. He then resigned his office in order to become cashier of the First National Bank of Wampum, of which he became a director in July, 1907. As a financier Mr. Johnston is well known all through Lawrence County.
He was a stockholder in the First National Bank at Ellwood City, and owned stock in the Standard Engineering Works at the same place, and he owned property in Ellwood City, both on Fountain Avenue and on Fifth Street, where his handsome residence stood.
Fraternally, Mr. Johnston was connected with the Masons and the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Politically he was a Republican and served one term of three years as city auditor of Ellwood. He was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 544.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 545.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 198.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 654.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 199.