Eliza Van Horn Johnston
1818 - 1894

Eliza Van Horn Johnston was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, on August 28, 1818. She was a daughter of Samuel Alexander Johnston and Cornelia (Fritts) Johnston. Eliza was a great-granddaughter of Frederick Fritts, a Revolutionary War patriot.

In about 1830, when Eliza was about 12 years old, the Johnstons moved from New Jersey to Clermont County, Ohio. Eliza was married to Elisha Jackson Emery on December 18, 1836, at Loveland, in Clermont County, Ohio.

Eliza resided with her husband on a farm in Clermont County for forty years when, in 1873, they moved to Seneca, in Nemaha County, Kansas, wher a married daughter resided. Her husband, Elisha, became a prominent banker in Nemaha County.

Eliza was the mother of ten children, most of whom settled in various Kansas communities. She was the mother of Samuel Alexander Emery who was born and married in Ohio and who settled in Ottawa County, Kansas in 1871.

Eliza Van Horn Johnston Emery died on March 8, 1894, and is buried with her husband in the cemetery at Seneca, Kansas.