M Benjamin Orland Johnson
Born 23 June 1897 - Ichby, Queens Co., New Brunswick
Died 10 October 1967 - Halifax, Nova Scotia , age at death: 70 years old
Parents:
M Arthur Whitfield Johnson (1862-1910)
F Ida May Short (1868-?)
Spouses:
- Married 6 April 1920, St. Agnes Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Ruth Helena Purcell (1896-1952)
Children:
F Helena Doris Johnson
M Orland Charles Johnson
M Earl Basil Johnson 1923-1970
Notes:
Ben worked for the railway. His (to be) wife became pregnant during thier courtship. Ben decided to leave back to St.John,N.B.. His father in law (to be) got on train and found Ben before he reached St. John and brought him back to marry his daughter.
Ben was an alledged bootlegger. He was said to have smuggled rum from Jamaica. There is one family tale as told by Gully Johnson that he was involved with exchange of gunfire while onboard a ship making for the Nova Scotia coast. He was said to have escaped.
His run in with the law in Quebec is more documented when he was charged with avoiding income tax as became popular in the USA to deal with successful bootleggers.
