Johanna Gifford

     Johanna Gifford was born in 1873 at New York.¹ She married James Isaac Scott, son of Edward Scott and Margaret Young, on 23 March 1893 at Marinette Co, Wisconsin.² Johanna Gifford died on 4 March 1899 at Wisconsin; Joanna died ae 25 yrs and 8 mos.¹ She was buried at Forest Home Cemetery, Marinette Co, Wisconsin;      In an obituary (no date available), it was said that Joanna came with her parents to Marinette in the fall of 1891 and lived there until her death. She was survived by her parents, Mr & Mrs Aaron B. Gifford, "her little baby a year old", her sister Mrs. W.S. Baker, and her husband. She had been ill for two weeks and had died due to ulceration and perforation of the bowels. She knew that "the end was near from early morning" and called all her relatives to her bedside to bid them farewell. Death came about five o'clock and "was peaceful and accompanied with that Christian resignation with the best assurance of eternal bliss in the hereafter. Wholly unselfish in character, she died as she lived, with the welfare of those about her as her greatest concern. No higher tribute could be paid to womanhood".^3,1