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Lillian "Mana" (Johnson) |
Lillian "Mana" (Johnson) Prachar Haas was born in April 1873 at Sego near Somerset, Perry County, OH, the daughter of David R. and Mahala (Miner) Johnson. She began life on her parents' farm in Ohio, but later became a pioneer settler of Kansas at the age of three, and she grew to adulthood in Concordia, Cloud County, KS.
Little is known about Lillian except for a few tidbits. The federal census of 1900 shows Lillian residing with her widowed father near Condordia, Cloud County. She was age 27 at the time.
Three years later, when she was age 31, in 1903, Lillian resided in Nebraska in the town of Deshler, Thayer County. That year, on April 23, 1903, she returned to Concordia to marry 25-year-old Charles Prachar (1878- ? ), of Superior, Nuckolls County, NE.
By 1910, the marriage apparently had ended, as she had returned to her father's household and resumed using the name "Johnson." She and her father are enumerated together in the 1910 census.
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Sixth Street in Concordia, circa 1908 |
On May 2, 1912, Lillian purchased a tract of land from her widowed father for $50 and "other valuable conditions," read the deed. The land comprised the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 34, Township 6, Range 3, west of the 6th P.M.
The 1920 census shows her living alone in her own home in the Concordia area, at the age of 46, working as a farmer. Residing next door was her 58-year-old married sister Laura Kate Swearingen.
Lillian is believed to have married a second time, later in life, to Jacob "Jake" Haas. Their fates after that is unknown.
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