New York Age, 15 November 1941.

Mess Attendant, First Class, Joseph Johnson was among the 100 sailors killed when a German submarine torpedoed the USS Reuben James off the coast of Iceland shortly before the United States entered World War II.

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In the 1930 census of Toisnot township, Wilson County: farmer Sollie Johnson, 38; wife Annie, 37; son Joseph, 14, and daughter Jasper, 9.