His WW II draft registration card, filed 27 April 1942, records William Edward Cole Johnston, age 58, residence R.R. #5 Washington township, Miami Co., Indiana, born 14 Feb 1884 in Rowan Co., Ky, occupation retired railroad agent, nearest relative Virginia L. Johston, same address.

Date of death is from his gravestone, which spells his name as Wm E. C. Johnston.

Her death certificate records Mary T. Johnston, age 27 years 2 months 22 days, born 7 Mar 1887 in Ky, died 29 May 1914 in Ashland, Boyd Co., Ky, married, father Frank Cooper, mother’s maiden name Lide Ann Johnson, both born in Ky, cause of death septic endocarditis following abortion, informant Wm E. Johnston, Ashland, Ky, burial in Moorehead, Ky. (The cause of death probably just means a miscarriage, for which the medical term is spontaneous abortion.)

Rowan Co., Ky marriage book 5, p. 349, records the marriage on 24 Nov 1905 of William Ed Cole Johnston and Mary T. Cooper.

1919 census of Rowan Co., Ky, district 1, town of Morehead, enumerated 28 April, lists on p. 8A as family #135/143, on Fifth St:
Johnston, W. E., 26, b. Ky WVa WVa, second marriage, married 4 years, clerk at railroad office; Mary, wife, 23, first marriage, married 4 years, mother of 2 children (living column blank), b. Ky Ky Ky; Vinita, dau, 3, b. Ky Ky Ky; Florence, dau, 1 1/12, b. Ky Ky Ky; Cooper, Eva, sister-in-law, 21, single, b. Ky Ky Ky.

The next household is headed by his brother George, recorded as G. P. Johnston.