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                  <text>••-WEEKLY OBSERVER, Hemingway, S. c.. Thursday, December 18, 1975

ohnson Family
llrm of WWiam and children were Sar ah . who 1894 &gt; went off to the Civil War
outiftted
and
were William. married Lt. William Haselden spendidly
s. named his father's of the Civil War, an unusually accompanied by his body slave
well educated and effective March who stayed with him to
.; and James C.
already noted, William teacher; Mitchell &lt; 1854-1877), the end and accompanied him
tin.. Jr.. born 1786, who died of what was diagnosed home. James H. Johnson
ed Sarah Crosby, born as an abscess on the liver and married twice, Annie Rebecca
. n'belr children were:
was probably a ruptured Pope and Clara Pope. Children
am HW &lt;1818·1889&gt;, who appendiz ; Rectina , who without reference to mother
captain in the Civil War, married Brown ; Agnes, who were• : William Wise Johnson
Jed Elizabeth
Ann married Henry Spivey ; Julia,, &lt;1865-1943 &gt; who married Annie
ry.
who married Evander F . Benson; Sarah Jane c1866-1939)
cholas Francis Johnson Hanna ; William J . &lt;Jim &gt;, who who married Robert Foster
~ed Frances Snow.
married his cousin Ceila Brown &lt; 1868-1950 &gt;; Leona rd
Mcrgaret Ann Johnson &lt;1823- Graves Johnson ;
Judith White who married Ellen
1891 &gt; married
Thomas Crosby, who married Z. Taylor Lawrence ; and Annie Margaret
ROtbmabler Grier &lt;1817-1883&gt;. Eaddy ; and Hortense, who
Dley are burled at Grier married Stephen Haselden .
cemetery' Johnsonville .
James Harvey Johnson &lt;1827-

who married James Tharpe. will, and the unborn child of her
James C. Johnson. son of father 's will. so born 1817-18.
The 10 children of William J .
Celia and William Johnson, Sr ..
married Sarah. last name not Johnson and Margaret Stone
known . He predeceased his were :
Mary Elizabeth. born Oct. 15.
father . who mentions the
children in his will of 1823.
1830, died March 23, J908.
Their children were :
m a rried Thomas Bath of
Harriett Caroline Ma tilda Georgetown District.
Johnson born Feb. 17. 1912, died
Fra nces Permilla , born Sept
July 13. 1892. ma rried Edwa rd 17, 1832, died 1901, married John
Hyrne Britton
Brown, Sr . born Oct . 25, 1822,
William J . Johnson. born died Oct 6, 1897. She was his
1811 . married l\1argare t Stone. second wife They a re buried a t
Rebecco Johnson, mentioned Brown Family Cemeter y
by name in her grandfather's
Celia Gra ves Johnson, born

1835, died 1924, married William
J (Jim &gt;Grier. son of Margaret
Johnson and Thomas R. Grier .
The
Grier
brothers
of
Ilemingway
are
their
grandsons.
Capt . Thomas
Edward
Johnson &lt;1839-1912 &gt; married
Mary &lt;Stone &gt; Eaddy , widow of
Thomas E addy, who was the
son of Henry Eaddy of Dr.
McGill 's narrative. They are
buried a t Trinity Methodist
Churc h Their children were
Willia m Fran c is Johnson ,
James Walter J ohnson who

became a physician , and
Elizabeth Johnson. Dr. J . W .
&lt;Jimmy&gt; Johnson married
Charlotte Higgins, born 1883,
died 1966, of Bucksville.
Francis Johnson, born 1836.
William Chesley Johnson,
born 1840.
Henry F . Johnson, born 1843,
died June 26, 1919, is buried at
Trinity Methodist Church.
Benjamin B. Johnson, born
1846, died 1927. married Agnes
Brown, daughter of John
Brown, Sr. and Sarah Jane
Murphy . They are buried at

Union Methodist Church . One of
their sons, Liston. became a
doctor. It is said that at times of
widespread illness, Dr.Johnson
frequently lived for days in his
buggy and that the buggy was
always laden with food for the
sick and hungry. He married
twice. The only son of his
marriage to Miss Cora Huggins,
Allen Johnson, also became a
doctor . He brought much
needed medical care to this
area with the establishment of
Johnson l\temorial Hospital in
1939. Eight years later the

isolation

area devel
..

when he
Telephone Co•
James Foster
1918&gt; married
1853, died 1931•

Sarah Martha
born May 25, 1
1922, married

Cox, born Ma
Jan. 24, 1898,
Cox and E
RobertH.
went to G
mother's death.

I·

AD EFFECTIVE:
DECEMBER 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 1975

QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED!

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,,

Elizabeth Ann Johnson

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