Spouse: James JOHNSTON. Mrs. James JOHNSTON and James JOHNSTON were married Bef 17 1784 May in Of Morris, Washington, Pa. Children were: James JOHNSTON, William JOHNSTON, Robert JOHNSTON, Rebucha JOHNSTON, Martha JOHNSTON, Mary JOHNSTON, Margaret JOHNSTON.

Note: Nettie's father, John Mitchell Johnston, and his brother, ThomasHenry Johnston, were the only children in their family that lived verylong. Their mother, Agnes Mitchell, died when they were about 7 1/2 and 3years old respectively. Their father Thomas married Margret Jameisonabout a year later, (brought her over from Scotland?), the two boys werenor treated well by her, and when John was about 10 years old, 1866,they ran away from home and went to the home of an Uncle and Aunt,probably this Tom and Mary McComb, because Mary would have been theirAunt - sister of their father, Thomas. The story was told that the twoboys were working in the field and came home late for lunch, Margret hadmopped the floor and wouldn't let them come in to eat, and one of them,in the argument, threw dirt in on the clean floor. She chased them with abutcher knife and nicked one of them a little, so they ran away, asdescribed above. As the story goes, John was adopted by a man namedBieler (sp?) and Tom was adopted by Tom & Mary McComb.

The following are remembrances of Nettie's:
John Mitchell Johnston and wife, Emidy, and the three older children,stayed with Tom and Mary McComb for a short time before moving to Oregon.John worked on the farm, and they lived in a small house to the East ofthe larger McComb house. It was a two-story house, with steps leading upto it. John raised corn, which he shucked and dried in wire cribs, thenfed the corn to pigs and burned the cobs for fuel. This was after Nettiewas born.
After John and Emidy were married in Rich Hill, John worked for hisuncle Thomas McComb, working with cattle and various farm jobs. Theirfirst three children were born in Rich Hill possibly prior to the timewhen he worked for McComb. In the spring of 1900, they came by train toOrient, OR., then made a couple of short moves around Pleasant Home andPowell Valley before settling in east Portland, or east of Portland,1902. There John worked in the railroad roundhouse, and the childrenwalked a mile and a half to school. Thomas Henry was born there in 1904.
When Tommy was 3 months old, which would have been March 1905, thefamily went by train to a point across the Columbia River from Carley,WA. (Another account indicates that they came by train to Alderdale, WA.in 1904. If Tommy was 3 months old, it would have to have been 1905.Needs further checking). There they were met by Emidy's brother HenryHaworth, with a team and wagon. There was a cold March wind blowing, andthe children rode in the wagon bed on straw, covered with quilts to keepwarm. They were taken to Henry's homestead to visit until John could geta house built on his newly acquired 160 acre homestead. When finished,the house was 16 x 24 feet, and had 2 rooms: one used as a bedroom andthe other as a kitchen and living room. This homestead was about 5 1/2miles Southeast of Lou and Cora Roberts.
The land was covered with sagebrush, which they used fro firewood, butwhich had to be cleared for farming. There was no well on the place, sothey hauled water in barrels from a spring in Dead Canyon about 3 1/2miles from the house. Nettie walked to the Lone Star School was about 41/2 miles from home. She and Dee Roberts were in school together there.
In the fall of 1911, John and Emidy moved to Mabton, WA., so that Thomascould go to school there. John worked on farms, irrigating, stacking hay,or in the wheat harvests South of Mabton, also traveling to the WallaWalla for wheat harvest, until his death in 1917.

SAYINGS SAVED BY NETTIE ROBERTS;
-Action speaks louder than words, but not so often.
-70 years young is more hopeful that 40 years old.
-40 is the old age of youth, 50 is the youth of old age.
-Reckless auto driving arouses the suspicion that a lot of the horsesense in the old days was possessed by the horse.
-The reason that there was less wrecks in the horse and buggy days wasthat the driver didn't have to rely on his own intelligence altogether.
-Let's all be happy and live within our means even if we have to borrowthe money to do it with.
-When two men in business always agree, one of them is not necessary.
-Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second party.
-I hate to be a kicker. I always long for peace, but the wheel that doesthe squeaking is the wheel that gets the grease.
-The secret of success in conversation is to be able to disagree withoutbeing disagreeable.
-Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug.
-A fellow who is always declaring that he is no fool usually has hissuspicions.
-Horse sense is what keeps horse from betting on what people will do.
-What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
-She has a nice sense of rumor.
-Make of yourself a honest man and you can be sure that there is one lessscoundrel in the world.
-A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from yourenemies and keeps it for himself.
-A college education shows a man how little other people know.
-A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth hedoes not wish to be told.
-No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
-Those who think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind.
-Life is just one thing after another.
-A man has one tongue and two ears so he can hear twice as much as hespeaks.
-A good listener after a while knows something.
-Some pray to Marry the woman they love
My prayer will somewhat vary.
I humbly pray to heaven above
That I love the woman I Marry.
-More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
-The mother knows best whether the child be like the father.
-A squeaks heard in the orchestra
The leader draws across
The intestines of the agile cat
The tail of the noble hoss.
-We seldom find any person of good sense except those who agree with us.
-It is better to be silent and thought a fool then to speak and removeall doubt.
-The reason why men who mind there own business succeed is because theyhave little competition.
-Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
-I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death yourright to say it.
-I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of themnever happened.
-Man argues woman may not be trusted too far. Woman feels man cannot betrusted to near.
-A married man can do anything he likes as long as his wife doesn't mind.
-There are two days about which nobody should worry, yesterday andtomorrow.
-Youth is a wonderful thing, what a crime to waste it on children.
-A man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions, a woman as long asshe can inspire them.
-Some stretch pants have no other choice.
-Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
-Life has a big :If" in the middle of it.
-Every time you want to give somebody a piece of your mind. "Reflect",can you really afford to spare any?
-Husband answering phone, "She's not home, would you care to leave arumor?"
-If someone calls you a perfect idiot, be modest-no one is perfect.
-Middle age is that time in life when after one night out you need twonights in.
-There was an old woman, she lived in a shoe, she didn't have anychildren, she knew what to do.
-A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick inthe pants, is miles ahead in results.
-If someone tells you that he never makes mistakes challenge him to showyou the eraser on his pencil.
-The surest way to get a child to earn his own bread is to quit sendinghis dough.
-There is no fool like an old fool, ask any young fool.
-If there is always two sides to every question, how come there is onlyone answer.
-Wearing pant suits makes some womens feet look big too.
-Make new friends but keep the old, "Those are silver-these are gold."
-The youth presumes to know it all because his sight is keen
Yet many truths the aged know which youth has never seen
There is a saying, I know it's true. It reads like a tale
That man does not begin to see till sight begins to fail.
-Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you have been up to.
-Said the husband sadly, "My wife and I had some words last night, but Inever got to use mine."
-Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
-Why is there such a difference between an event we can never forget andan event we shall always remember?
-If there is so much hate in the world, how do you account for thepopulation explosion?
-You can't lose weight by talking about it, you have to keep your mouthshut.
-I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be likethem.
-The distance between some peoples ears is exactly one block.
-It is what you learn after you think you know it all that really counts.
-Life is 10% what you make it and 90% of how you take it.
-Live for today, dream for tomorrow, learn from yesterday.
-Give a weed an inch and it will take the yard.
-Inflation has become so bad that it has hit the price of feathers, evendown is up.
-"Tact" is what enables you to disagree without being disagreeable.
-The best way to save face is to keep the lower part closed.
-A rude person is one keeps on talking while you are trying to interrupt.
-How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you areon.
-Be careful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet.
You never know from day to day which ones you'll have to eat.
-Old truck drivers never died, they "just can't make the grade.
-Beneath this stone lies Murphy, we buried him today
He lived the life of Riley while Riley was away.
-A diplomat is a person who knows how far he can go before he goes toofar.
-Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been left open.
-Bumper sticker, "Drive carefully, the life you save might be mine."
-Be kind to your friends, if it weren't for them, you'd be a totalstranger.
-In 1911 there was no taxes after income, in 1978 there was no incomeafter taxes. Parents: .

Spouse: Louis Dee ROBERTS. Nettie (nmn) JOHNSTON and Louis Dee ROBERTS were married on 18 January 1911 in Mabton, Washington. Children were: Nellie Alice ROBERTS, Ethel Marie ROBERTS, Joseph Allen ROBERTS, Richard Roy ROBERTS, Mary Ellen ROBERTS, Dan Edward ROBERTS.