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By the way, you asked about someone whose last name was "Johnson". Johnsson (with a double s) does exist in Sweden but it exists FAR more rarely than Johansson, Johannesson, Jonsson, Jönsson, etc. (and the female forms: Johansdotter, Johannesdotter, Jonsdotter, Jönsdotter, etc.) Those other names were usually Americanized to Johnson.
Patronymic customs took the given name of the father plus (usually) a possessive s and then "son" or "dotter" for the children. The patronymic system officially ended in 1901 but was starting to end decades earlier. Therefore, the father of the woman you are seeking had to either have a form of "John" as his given name or else had to have a form of "Johnson" as his patronymic name.
I can't understand how a man named Lars Persson could have had a daughter with a last name of "Johnson". His daughter would have used Larsson/Larsdotter or Persson as a last name.
Read about Swedish naming customs here.
http://www.martenius.se/genealogy/Names.pdf
Judy
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