Hart Family - Ourfolk - Family

Name: Stella Johnston
Birth Year: abt 1880
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Indiana
Marital status: Widowed
Relation to Head of House: Head
Homemaker?: Yes
Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
Street address: 2127 North Delware
Home Owned or Rented: Owned
Home Value: 15000
Radio Set: Yes
Lives on Farm: No
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's Birthplace: District of Columbia
Able to Speak English: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Stella Johnston 50
Henry A Johnston 23
Dorothy A Johnston 18

Henry purchased a farm in Zionsville , Ind sometime after 1940 where he lived for the rest of his life.

Johnston Farm

According to his daughter Nancy:
- There was money in the family until the depression hit. Then my father, Hank, had to drop out of Williams College in his junior year and go home and help his
Mother and his sister.

My Dad bought the farm because he wanted to get out of Indianapolis and all the coal soot.
The story goes that one morning when they got Abby up as a baby she had soot around her mouth and nose and he said 'that s it, we see moving'.
He bought only 20 acres just to have his sheep and chickens and later horses for us.
He never farmed it. They moved to the farm somewhere between 1940 and 1944.

Henry Johnson of Indianapolis,Ind.,
summer resident of Rye Beach, was
the cause of the latest 'Dillinger case' yesterday.
Police were breathing more easily last night after
his identity and reputation had been established.
Police attention had been called to Johnson's car, bearing
Indiana plates, which was parked at Beach street
and Harrison Avenue, Boston, Mass., yesterday,
having in it a 38-calibre automatic pistol,
12 clips of shells and 50 cartridges for a 45-calibre automatic pistol.
The officers immediately conjured up visions of
Dillinger and his gang being there for taking
possession of the funds of
Boston's leading banks with consequent
gun-play and bloodshed.
They took the gun and ammunition, leaving
several officers to watch the car.

A short time later Mr. Johnson arrived at the car with his mother
and a young lady. He explained that he had gone to the
South station to meet them and was on his way to their
summer home at Rye Beach.

Mr. Johnson produced an interstate revolver license and papers
to show that he is a crack shot and a member of the
National Rifle Association.

(THE PORTSMITH HERALD)

Name: Henry Johnston
Age: 33
Estimated birth year: abt 1907
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Indiana
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

Street: North Delaware Street
House Number: 2129
Residence in 1935: Same Place

Occupation: State Representative Active
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 3000
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 60
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 2130
Income Other Sources: No

Household Members:
Name Age
Henry Johnston 33
Jane Johnston 32
Abbie W Johnston 1/12