"Lest We Forget"
Private Leonard Levine Johnson
23 Aug 1895 - 3 Nov 1918
Service Record
- Army Number: 2,560,531
- Inducted at Crosby, McKean Co, Pa on March 29, 1918.
- Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa.
- Served in Company D, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 20, 1918.
- Company G, 139th Infantry, to death.
- Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death.
- Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne.
- Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace): Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine),
- Died on Nov. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.
- Remains returned to U. S. on June 1, 1921.
June 1, 1921
Leonard Levine Johnson(Lind), served in WWI and was killed in France. Leonard and his twin sister Jennie were the last born children of Swedish immigrants Mathilda and Lars Johan Lind.
Due to financial hardship, they were separated and given to two different families in Kane, Pa. Leonard was raised by the Johnson family and Jennie was raised by the Erickson family. The family story says that they lived next door to each other and never knew that they were twins until they were teenagers.
Jennie lived in Kane for her entire life at 314 Haines St. Jennie had one child, Bruce Murphy who also served in the 11th Airborne in the 1950's.
Contributed by Cris Murphy, grand-nephew of Leonard Johnson