Today in Johnson City History, Monday, July 13, 2026
A prominent death....
Saturday, July 13, 1901: One hundred and twenty-five years ago today, The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported news with a dateline from Knoxville, Tennessee and a date of July 10. Readers were informed that “Mrs. Martha Patterson, of Greeneville, the last of the children of ex-President Andrew Johnson, whose death cast a gloom over entire east Tennessee, …