The Rockford Weekly Gazette, 25 February 1875
(Illinois)

Another old settler gone. Mr. Thomas Johns a resident of Rockford for the past 25 years, died at his residence in this city yesterday, after a lingering illness, from cancer. He was born in Cornwall, England, and was 72 years of age. The funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon, at Court street M. E. church, of which he had for many years been a member.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho