Bill Johnson / Schanzenbach Page

January 2000 Bill Johnson / Schanzenbach Page If you want to look… April 2000 List of Songs on my CD collection New photos of my d… October 2000 List of Songs on my CD collection JAMMIN' at th… March 2001 List of Songs on my CD collection Christmas 2000 Pho… April 2001 List of Songs on my CD collection Some new Photos, S… July 2001 List of Songs on my CD collection Some new Photos, S… April 2002 St. Benedict's School, All Alumni Reunion Pleas… May 2002 Please click here for info and help. My Grandfather … August 2002 Pictures of Webbers Falls I-40 Bridge Collapse Read … September 2002 New Home on GeoCities.com My Grandfather Eugene Scha… June 2003 Now hosted from home My Grandfather Eugene Schanzenb… July 2003 This is my first effort at building this web page. A… March 2004 Now hosted from home OK, here goes nothing; Eugene S… April 2004 Now hosted from home OK, here goes nothing. I will m… June 2004 How to get to BrokenBow Lake and Stephens Gap Camp G… September 2004 Now hosted from home July 3 and 4 Rick and Melissa t… November 2004 Happiness is a journey not a destination, Drink like… February 2005 Shelly also has photos on this website at www.billjo… February 2006 Family Birthday Calendar Family Tree Walt Ruick’s Ph… December 2006 Family Birthday Calendar Family Tree Google Picasa P… January 2008 Bill Johnson (Schanzenbach) Family Home Pages UNDER …

Happiness is a journey not a destination, Drink like there is no tomorrow Work like you don't need money, Love like you never been hurt, and Dance like no one's looking For ten years this page was the family's front porch: new news up, old news down. The archives caught all of it. He announced the Snow of 2000 and that "Mike and Sam Johnson have a new daughter Amanda Nichole." He posted "JAMMIN' at the Johnson's" when Gary and Jay came picking, the Christmas 2000 album, the lake trips, and pictures of the Webbers Falls bridge collapse. He moved to GeoCities in 2002, declared it "Now hosted from home" in 2003, sent everyone to Broken Bow with three hand-made maps, and slipped away with Cindy to Cancun. By 2008 the sign read "UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Please be patient and drive carefully," the parlor game was Farkel, and his last post, July 2010, was an invitation: "Let's Go FISHING in Oklahoma." » read every post, in his own words

If you want to look at a Big Picture Album, CLICK HERE

The people: Bill Sr. · Eugene Sr. · Ida · Joe · Tony · Alfred · Frank · Nick · Clara · Ben · Billy himself

The times: Easter '99 · the 4th of July cookout · Christmas · Broken Bow · Cancun · the 2007 ice storm · Shelly & Jed in Mexico

From the attic — pages we found in the rubble that Bill never linked from anywhere: his very first photo page, a Sept. 1998 test roll · November '98 · the Land · the 16 Color pictures he scanned from the albums · his dad, mom, brothers and sisters · Vacations 2001 · Borrowed From Steve

» all 31 albums

My Grandfather was named Eugene Schanzenbach, but he changed his name during WWI to Johnson.
That same day, he came home, anounced to his wife and 8 children that NO German will be spoken in this house"

Read my notes I made during my interviews (Don't go here if you are offended by bad spelling :)

Eugene Schanzenbach Sr.'s younger brother was Father Benedict Schanzenbach of the "Capuchin" Order (they invented capuchino.) Here is his eulogy.

My Father was Bill Schanzenbach Johnson.   I am Bill Johnson Jr.

The family, as Bill kept it:

Eugene Schanzenbach married Louisa Gilliard: Ida (Ripley) 1889 · Joe 1891 · Tony 1893 · Alfred 1895 · Frank 1900 · Nick 1903 · Eugene 1907 Louisa passed away, and Eugene married widowed Clara (Day) Brown: Bill 1910 · Ben 1916 In 1917, Eugene changed his last name from Schanzenbach to Johnson. Same for his wife and 6 boys still at home. Joe and Tony were in the Army by then. After the war, Tony changed his name to Johnson, but Joe kept Schanzenbach to his death.

Deeper roots: the genealogy database Bill built, reaching back to Franz Michael Schanzenbach, born 1817 in Binswangen, Württemberg  ·  the family tree page  ·  GrandMa (Schanzenbach) Johnson's SourDough Bread

A "Binder" is a International Farm implement used long ago.  It is also the nick name of such IH trucks as the "SCOUT"

Bill rebuilt his 1975 Scout and documented every wire: the Scout pages · taillight wiring · gauge schematics

And when he wasn't under a truck he was on the water: the sailboat Havana Daydreamin' · boats · the 2001 boat races · the garage

Sounds of Bill Johnson Sr. and Elmer Harden playing guitars and talking. Also, recordings of Ben's Boys recordings from 1962

List of Songs on my CD collection · the photo album that went with the Sounds pages

A note from the family: the recordings themselves — the interview with Bill Johnson Sr., the guitar sessions, Dreamer, Mistic Madona and the rest — were never captured by the internet archives. If any relative has these .wav files on an old computer or backup CD, they are the most precious missing pieces of this whole site.

biograph · dreamer · evelyn · concista · deedsand · the interview notes

The Emperor's New Cloths · The Blind Men and the Elephant · The Dreamer

And yes — Bill ran a Java chat room on this site in 2000. It doesn't work anymore, but we kept the door.

Shelly also has photos on this website — Bill's line from 2005. Her whole site, michellejohnson.net, is restored here too: visit Shelly's pages.

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