FOX William Adler

Other Events and Attributes:

• Living In: Williamsburg, VA

Notes:

Their first son, William Adler (1943) was born while Erwin was at sea with the United States Merchant Marine.

WILLIAM ADLER FOX
Born November 3, 194 Bill is the eldest son of Katherine Gladys Johnson and Erwin Adler Fox, Jr. He grew up in Newport News and attended public schools there. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a degree in naval architecture in 1965 and has worked in Newport News, New York, Italy, and Iran. He enjoys sailing, flying, writing, and restoring his house at 306 River Road, Hilton Village, Newport News.

Family/Spouse: FOX Mary --LNU--. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Seaford, York County, VA
• Military: US MERCHANT MARINE WORLD WAR II

Notes:

Death:

Social Security Death Index
about Erwin A. Fox
Name:Erwin A. Fox          
SSN:227-16-6140          
Last Residence:23696 Seaford, York, Virginia, United States of America          
Born:16 Feb 1920          
Died:14 Jul 2000          
State (Year) SSN issued:Virginia (Before 1951)          

Erwin married JOHNSON Katherine J. on 30 Aug 1941 in Newport News, VA. Katherine (daughter of JOHNSON Sidney Thomas and ROGERS Ruth Ella) was born on 12 Dec 1919 in Dendron, Surry County VA; died on 25 Feb 2012; was buried on 28 Feb 2012 in Newport News, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born on Dec. 12, 1919, at Marl Spring Farm near Dendron in Surry County, to Sidney Thomas Johnson and Ruth Ella Rogers. She graduated from Dendron High School, in 1937, and moved to Newport News to live with relatives, attend business school, and work in retail. She married Erwin A. Fox Jr., there in 1941 and they were together for 58 years until his death in 2000. The last of nine children, she was a very active child and her father said that she was, "as tough as a lightwood knot."
The Foxes lived in Sussex Hilton, Wythe, North Hilton, Riverside, and Maxwell Gardens, until they moved to their dream home on Chisman's Creek, in Seaford in 1965. Summers there were memorable; filled with boats and innumerable fish and crabs. As their three boys finished school, Katherine went to work for years as a photo archivist at the Mariners' Museum. From 1995 until his death in 2000, she tirelessly cared for her husband at home during his struggles with Alzheimer's disease. She was a devoted and loving wife and mother and a best friend to many.

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From the Johnson Book:

KATHERINE GLADYS JOHNSON
Katherine was born on December 12, 1919, the last child of Sidney and Ruth Johnson. She and her sister, Edna, seemed like twins and sometimes got into trouble pulling up plants and wading in the hog wallow. Katherine was something of a tomboy, always climbing trees and barns, and she was so tough that her father called her a "lightwood knot." She graduated from Dendron High School in 1938 and moved to Newport News to live with her mother's sister, Grace. She worked at Woolworth's and attended business college at night, then took a secretarial job at the shipyard. She met Erwin Adler Fox, Jr., and they were married on August 30,

Their first son, William Adler (1943) was born while Erwin was at sea with the United States Merchant Marine and they had two more sons, Stephen Allen (1946) and Sidney Jay (1950). After the boys were grown, Katherine went back to work as a photo researcher at the Mariner's Museum. Katherine and Erwin now enjoy life at their waterfront home in Seaford which is frequently visited by children and grandchildren.

Died:
Katherine J. FOX

NEWPORT NEWS - Katherine J. Fox, 92, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.
She was born on Dec. 12, 1919, at Marl Spring Farm near Dendron in Surry County, to Sidney Thomas Johnson and Ruth Ella Rogers. She graduated from Dendron High School, in 1937, and moved to Newport News to live with relatives, attend business school, and work in retail. She married Erwin A. Fox Jr., there in 1941 and they were together for 58 years until his death in 2000. The last of nine children, she was a very active child and her father said that she was, "as tough as a lightwood knot."
The Foxes lived in Sussex Hilton, Wythe, North Hilton, Riverside, and Maxwell Gardens, until they moved to their dream home on Chisman's Creek, in Seaford in 1965. Summers there were memorable; filled with boats and innumerable fish and crabs. As their three boys finished school, Katherine went to work for years as a photo archivist at the Mariners' Museum. From 1995 until his death in 2000, she tirelessly cared for her husband at home during his struggles with Alzheimer's disease. She was a devoted and loving wife and mother and a best friend to many.
Tough to the last, she outlived all of her siblings and most of her friends, and she could never quite believe that she was in her 90s.
She is survived by her sons, William A. Fox and his wife, Mary of Williamsburg, Stephen A. Fox of Poquoson, and Sidney J. Fox of Suffolk; six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Amory Funeral Home in Grafton, followed by interment in Peninsula Memorial Park. A reception for family and friends will be at Zion United Methodist Church.
The family wishes to thank Mom's many friends who visited and called during the past few years. Special thanks to her caregivers at Warwick Forest and to her many new friends there. We will always remember the kind attention and love from LaShanda Walker, 'our sister,' and others from Home Helpers.
Memorials may be made to Zion United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 240, Seaford, VA 23696; or to a favorite charity

Buried:
Services at Amory Funeral Home, in Grafton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military - Draft Card: 1917, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV
• Living In: 1928, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV
• Census: 1930, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV

Notes:

Military - Draft Card:
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Erwin Adler Fox
Name:Erwin Adler Fox          
City:Huntington          
County:Wayne          
State:West Virginia          
Birthplace:Ohio          
Birth Date:19 Jul 1896          
FHL Roll Number:1992487          
DraftBoard:1          

Census:
1930 United States Federal Census
about Erwin A Fox
Name:Erwin A Fox          
Gender:Male          
Birth Year:abt 1897          
Birthplace:Ohio          
Race:White          
Home in 1930:Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia View Map          
Marital Status:Married          
Relation to Head of House:Head          
Spouse's Name:Estol W Fox          
Father's Birthplace:Germany          
Mother's Birthplace:Germany          
Occupation: Education: Military Service: Rent/home value: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace:          
         
Household Members:NameAge               
Erwin A Fox 33               
Estol W Fox 33               
Erwin A Fox 10               
Henrietta Fox 6               
Sara J Fox 1 [1 9/12]               
Garnet C Hatfield 21               

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Lawrence County, OH; Living with parents
• Residence: 1910, Lawrence County, OH; Living with parents
• Living In: 1928, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV

Notes:

Residence:
Citation Information
Transcription of text     
Detail 1900 OH, Lawrence Co, Upper Twp, Coal Grove, ED80, p3 (43A) sheet 2A     
Date     
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Source Repository No repository specified for this source     

Residence:
Transcription of text     
Detail 1910 OH, Lawrence Co, Union Twp, ED94, p13 (7A)     
Date     
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Source Repository No repository specified for this source     

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1861-1865, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Surry Cavalry
• Residence: 1890, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Marl Spring Farm

Notes:

Hi Gene: You have Sidney Thomas Johnson and Ruth Ella Rogers on you web page. In the Sussex-Surry Dispatch March 7 edition was obit for Katherine J. Fox listing them as her parents... Jean Johnsom

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NINTH GENERATION
SIDNEY THOMAS JOHNSON, son of David Peyton Johnson (a veteran of the Civil War) and Mahala Elizabeth Rogers, was born on January 20, 1868. As most of Surry County was left bankrupt after the Civil War, his boyhood was a simple one characterized by hard work. Schools were of the one-room variety and pupils ranged in age from seven years to adults. Sidney was a bright boy and quickly mastered his three R'B. At age eighteen he went to work in Waverly at a small general store. He worked for his board and a few dollars a month. Being only six miles from home, he walked the distance when time permitted. On one occasion, he was taken ill and his father had to drive a horse and dump cart the six miles through a snowstorm to get him. The cart was bedded down with hay and a quilt on top to make a bed. More quilts were placed over him and a table oilcloth covered all. He was snug and warm but doubtlessly had a rough ride, all the same.
It was at the small store in Waverly that he gained experience and acquired some knowledge of business management. After four years he had saved enough out of his meager earnings to make a down payment on a farm of his own.
In 1890, at age 22, he bought Marl Spring Farm. The manor house had burned down some time before, leaving but a small cabin; it was here that he lived for two years while he farmed and kept a small neighborhood store. On an adjacent farm lived the Cotton family, with three young girls. Boy met girl and he courted Mary Etta Cotton, marrying her at Union Church on January 27, 1892. He was described in a contemporary account as being a "popular young bachelor" and she was a lovely bride, as evidenced in photographs. A "grand reception" was held at her home after the ceremony.
After the wedding, Sidney and Mary set up housekeeping in the cabin which had been his home for two years. Now, as a team, they worked to make their lives better. He started building a proper house as time and money permitted. The house was built in two sections, the first of which was completed before 1895- The west end of their cabin housed a forge and tools while the house was being built. Their child, Ruth Olga, was born in the tiny cabin, while those which followed were born in the new house. The years went by while they worked and strived to make a good home for themselves and their growing family. Sidney was a very intelligent man and throughout his life showed greater ability than his simple schooling would indicate.
Fortunately, there were no wars during Sidney's young manhood, but he was a volunteer member of the Surry Cavalry. He occasionally rode to Surry on his black horse for drills, sporting a blue uniform with brass trappings and a gleaming saber at his side. He was a man of great energy and knowhow, inventing and making things to simplify the work that had to be done. Mary, dear wife and the mother of his six children, died on May 9i 1909t after an illness of about two years. She was but 37 years of age. Mary is remembered by her children as a loving woman and she was greatly beloved by all who knew her. The family suffered a tragic loss at her death.
Some difficult years followed with Sidney left alone with six children ranging in age from 3 to 16 years. Almost two years later he was married to Ruth ELla Rogers, but 18 years old. Her father was William Thomas Rogers and was related to Sidney's mother, who called him "Cousin Tommy." Sidney and Ruth had three children between 1912 and 1919, and by the time these were growing up the others had married and moved away. The first family car came in 1916 and it made visiting much easier. Sidney Johnson is remembered by Surry County farmers even today as having been able to plow an incredibly straight line with a mule. He, at one point, had a cantankerous steel-wheeled tractor and may have cussed it and ordered it around as did some of the older farmers, who plowed with mules all their lives.

The Johnson farmhouse was the junction of the first telephone line across Surry County and the children remember its switchboard. Sidney had educated himself in legal matters and became a justice of the peace around 1920. For many years he tried cases, both misdemeanors and felonies, in his office in a cabin just west of the house. With some felony cases, the proceedings were briefly suspended in order that he could chase the children away from under the window and prevent them from hearing the gruesome details. He was especially busy with his duties during the prohibition years.
During the 1930 's, the rest of the children finished school at Dendron and moved away. Ruth died in a Richmond hospital on March 31, 1941, only 48 years of age, leaving Sidney alone again at 73. She was greatly loved by all the children and was sadly missed. She was a robust woman and was so kind that it is said that she "would give the butter right off the table to someone in need." Sidney remained at home for a while then, enfeebled, went to Kibler Nursing Home in Claremont where he died on September 4, 1942. His funeral was held at his home and was attended by a large number of his friends and relatives. He was. a longtime member of Carsley Methodist Church, where he taught Sunday School for many years. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery at Surry between Mary and Ruth under a grove of young oak trees.
ISSUE

by Mary Etta Cotton
RUTH OLGA b. 1893, d. 1969 m. 1926 Earl L. Madison
BERTHA MAY b. 1895, d. 1987 m. 1920 Charles Lawrence Bartlett
MYRA BELL b. 1897, m. 1917 Nelson Miles Huber
ALBERT SIDNEY b. 1899, m. 1927 Marjorie Ruth Kincaid d. 1982
MYRTIE LEE b. 1902, m. 1920 John Harris Lane, Jr., d. 1971
HUGH THOMAS b. 1905, m. 1936 Edith Lorraine Duncan, d. 1965

by Ruth Ella Rogers

PAULINE ISABEL b. 1912, m. 1941 Thomas Linwood Gofer d. 1988
EDNA MARION b. 1918, m. 1945 James W. Watt, Jr. d. 1996
KATHERINE GLADYS b. 1919, m. 1941 Eiwin Adler Fox, Jr.
Mary Etta Cotton Sidney Thomas Johnson Ruth Ella Rogers

Military:
Bertha (Johnson) Bartlett, wrote that her father, Sidney T. Johnson, was a member of the Surry Cavalry when she was a girl, in the first decade of the 20th century. She says he occasionally rode to Surry Courthouse on his black horse for drills, sporting a blue uniform with brass trappings and a gleaming saber at his side. Fortunately, there were no wars during bis young manhood.

Residence:
In 1890, at age 22, he bought Marl Spring Farm. The manor house had burned down some time before, leaving but a small cabin; it was here that he lived for two years while he farmed and kept a small neighborhood store. On an adjacent farm lived the Cotton family, with three young girls. Boy met girl and he courted Mary Etta Cotton, marrying her at Union Church on January 27, 1892. He was described in a contemporary account as being a "popular young bachelor" and she was a lovely bride, as evidenced in photographs. A "grand reception" was held at her home after the ceremony.
After the wedding, Sidney and Mary set up housekeeping in the cabin which had been his home for two years. Now, as a team, they worked to make their lives better. He started building a proper house as time and money permitted. built in two sections, the first of which was completed before 1895- The west end of their cabin housed a forge and tools while the house was being built. Their child, Ruth Olga, was born in the tiny cabin, while those which followed were born in the new house. The years went by while they worked and strived to make a good home for themselves and their growing family. Sidney was a very intelligent man and throughout his life showed greater ability than his simple schooling would indicate.

Died:
Ruth died in a Richmond hospital on March 31, 1941, only 48 years of age, leaving Sidney alone again at 73. Sidney remained at home for awhile, then, greatly enfeebled, went into Kibler Nursing Home in Claremont where he died on September 4,1942. His funeral was held at his home and was attended by a large number of friends and relatives. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery between Etta and Ruth under a grove of young oak trees.

Buried:
he died on September 4, 1942. His funeral was held at his home and was attended by a large number of his friends and relatives. He was. a longtime member of Carsley Methodist Church, where he taught Sunday School for many years. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery at Surry between Mary and Ruth under a grove of young oak trees.

Sidney married ROGERS Ruth Ella about 1911. Ruth (daughter of ROGERS William Thomas and ANDREWS Elizabeth Rebecca) was born on 11 Nov 1893; died on 31 Mar 1941; was buried in Surry, Surry County, VA (Oakwood Cemetary). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Ruth died in a Richmond hospital on March 31, 1941, only 48 years of age,

Notes:

Married:
Some difficult years followed with Sidney left alone with six children ranging in age from 3 to 16 years. Almost two years later he was married to Ruth ELla Rogers, but 18 years old. Her father was William Thomas Rogers and was related to Sidney's mother, who called him "Cousin Tommy." Sidney and Ruth had three children between 1912 and 1919, and by the time these were growing up the others had married and moved away.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1881, Germany; Arbeiter
• Immigration: 15 Mar 1881, Hamburg, Germany
• Census: 1900, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV
• Occupation: 1900, Huntington, Cabell Co, WV; Tailor
• Census: 1910, Huntington, Kyle District, Cabell Co, WV

Notes:

Occupation:
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

Immigration:
Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934 Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934
about Simon Fuchs
Name:Simon Fuchs          
Departure Date:15 Mrz 1881 (15 Mar 1881)          
Destination:New York          
Estimated Birth Year:abt 1862          
Age Year:19          
Gender:männlich (Male)          
Family:Household members          
Residence:Epirus, Ungarn          
Occupation:Arbeiter          
         
Ship Name:Kaiser          
Captain:Bulman          
Ship Type:Dampfschiff          
Accommodation:ohne Angabe          
Ship Flag:England          
Port of Departure:Hamburg          
Port of Arrival:Hartlepool (Amerika (USA) via Liverpool)          
         
Volume:373-7 I, VIII B 1 Band 041          
Page:327          
Microfilm Roll Number:S_13135          

Census:
1900 United States Federal Census
about Samon Fox
Name:Samon Fox [Saman Fox]          
Age:37          
Birth Date:Feb 1863          
Birthplace:Germany          
Home in 1900:Huntington Ward 1, Cabell, West Virginia [Cabell]          
Race:White          
Gender:Male          
Immigration Year:1888          
Relation to Head of House:Head          
Marital Status:Married          
Spouse's Name:Henretta Fox          
Marriage Year:1886          
Years Married:14          
Father's Birthplace:Germany          
Mother's Birthplace:Germany          
Occupation:View on Image          
Neighbors:View others on page          
Household Members:NameAge               
Samon Fox 37               
Henretta Fox 37               
David Fox 10               
Hilda Fox 8               
Leo Fox 6               
Irvin Fox 3               
Lillian Fox 1               

Occupation:
per 1900 census

Census:
1910 United States Federal Census
     about Sam Fox
    
Name:Sam Fox          
Age in 1910:47          
Birth Year:1863          
Birthplace:Germany          
Home in 1910:Huntington Ward 3, Cabell, West Virginia          
Race:White          
Gender:Male          
Immigration Year:1884          
Relation to Head of House:Head [Self (Head)]          
Marital Status:Married          
Spouse's Name:Henrietta Fox          
Father's Birthplace:Germany          
Mother's Birthplace:Germany          
Neighbors:View others on page          
Household Members:NameAge               
Sam Fox 47               
Henrietta Fox 47               
David Fox 21               
Hilda Fox 17               
Leo Fox 15               
Erwin Fox 13               
James Fox 5               
Mary Carter 34               
    

Belden married EATON Anna Ora on 4 Jul 1894 in Boyd County, KY. Anna was born on 7 Apr 1875 in Lawrence County, OH; died on 7 Oct 1956 in Cabell County, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Burial: Surry County, VA (Rogers Family Cemetary, Off Rt.40)
• Alt. Name: David Paten Jphnson
• Name: David Paten
• Reference Number: 672
• Military: 2 May 1862; Confederate Army
• Census: 1900, Guilford, Surry, Virginia
• Census: 1910, Guilford, Surry, Virginia

Notes:

Patin is also possibly the spelling (Pattie Arwood 1-3-204)

I am very much interested in seeing if the Beverly Booth connection would qualify me for the Jamestown Society. He is my DAR ancestor through his daughter Mary E. who married John C. Rogers. Her daughter married David Payton Johnson, my great-grandfather and Confederate ancestor. I'd be interested in any information you might have.

Can you connect the Rogers line to the Revolution? My other Surry lines are Maddera, Sledge, Cotton and Hobbs. There are a couple of others but I'm not sure if they were widows or if the names were maiden names.

Look forward to hearing from you soon! Pat Hall
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There was a small Bible with "Edmon Johnson's book, July the 17th, 1832" in his hand writing inside the back cover and "Surry Bible Society" and "David P. Johnson" inside the front cover...Information from William Adler Fox and Bertha Johnson Bartlett:

EIGHTH GENERATION
37 1 DAVID PATEN JOHNSON, son of (28 1), was born on August 5, 1840. His early life must have been spent in a busy household with his half-brothers and sisters growing up around him. He and his father and these brothers undoubtedly worked the same plots of land along the county line and Blackwater River that had been worked by previous generations of Johnsons.

In 1862, war came to Virginia and Surry County and David enlisted in Martin's Battery, Company "B" 12th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery, commanded by Captain S. T. Martin. His enlistment occurred 01 May 3, 1862, in Richmond. Also serving in his and other Surry County units were many of his present or future relatives, including his half-brother Randolph. He was almost immediately detailed as a teamster for his battalion which was with General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Early in the war, his unit had been stationed at Fort Clifton Franklin, and along the Blackwater River. At about the time that his unit was engaged in battle with Butler's forces in Chesterfield County, he was detached from his unit and detailed as a courier to Major F. J. Boggs, Battalion Commander. At some point during the final months of the war, Private Johnson was taken prisoner by Union forces and was held until he was paroled on April 16, 1865, and allowed to return home. It is said that under the terms of the surrender he was allowed to keep his horse but that it died on the way back to Surry and he had to walk the rest of the way.
He returned home and soon began courting Mahala Elizabeth Rogers, who lived on a farm close to his father's. They were married at her home, Pleasant Hill Farm, on January 29, 1867, and went to live and work their farm of about 100 acres on Route 612 between Carsley and Route kQ. Some of this land was given to them by Mahaley's mother, Mary Booth Rogers. Roads in the county were more intensive then than they are now and maps of the era show several Johnson farms and have references to a "Johnson's Mill" and "Johnson's Bridge." These places are now overgrown with forest and no one remembers to whom they belonged. David and Mahaley built a modest farmhouse and had their first child, Sidney, on January 20, 1868. He was followed by seven brothers and sisters between then and 1885. The death of his sister, Mary Elizabeth, in 1893 brought great sorrow to the family as she was a lovely girl of but 23 who was shortly to be married. The Johnsons were a strong family, it appears, as eight healthy children were raised when infant mortality was high due to epidemics. Within a few years after the turn of the century, all of the children had married. Granddaughter Bertha Johnson remembers visits to her grandparents at their farm, these always lasted all day as a six mile drive in a "surrey with the fringe on top" was required to get there. Their house was a one-and-a-half story with a parlor that David had added. The kitchen was detached from the house and as this was before the era of the screen door, Mahaley always had trouble keeping the chickens out. For the same reason, someone would have to stand over the table at mealtime and wave a "shoo-fly" (paper streamers crimped onto a reed) to keep the flies away. Mahaley is remembered as a stern and statuesque woman who was as vigorous as she was durable. As Bertha recalls, "What she knew, she knew. She was set in her ways." Her husband, in contrast, was a quiet, gentle, and genteel man. He was a teetotaler except for a glass of.homemade blackberry wine that he would accept after the ride to see his son, Sidney, at Marl Spring. In later years, David was sometimes sickly and he blamed his illnesses on months of poor conditions in prison camps during the Civil War. He died at home on August 12, 1919, and was buried near his farm. His wife inherited the farm but sold it shortly afterward and went to live with her son, Sidney, and his family. On a visit to her son, Asa, in Petersburg she contracted pneumonia and died on May 8, 1923. She was buried beside her husband and daughter, Mary Elizabeth.
ISSUE
39 1 SIDNEY THOMAS      b. 1868 d. 1942:
               m. 1892 Mary Etta Cotton
               m. 1911 Ruth Ella Rogers
2 MARY ELIZABETH      b. l870 d. 1893
3 FLOYD IMAN           b. l872      m. 1993 Annie C. Rogers d. 1915
4 WILDER LEE           b. 1874      m. 1912 Dora Self d.
5 JOSEPH FRANKLIN      b. l876 m. Edmonia Collier d. 1943
6 ASA BERNARD           b. l879 m. 1906 Cornelia A. Harrison d.
7 PATTIE MAY           b. 1882 m. 1905 J. Thomas Holdsworth d. 1932
46 8 JOHN ROGERS      b. 1885 m. 1911 Nannie C. Rogers d.

Nat Sturdivant

Some Recollections of Him and of His Capture in Front of Petersburg

To the Editor of the Dispatch:

I have seen something in your Confederate column about one of the brave captains of the old Twelfth Battalion of Virginia Light Artillery, Nat Sturdivant. I was personally acquainted with Sturdivant and was a member of the Battalion. I endorse what Mr. Shifflett has written. I was an eye-witness to a good part of what he has related. I don't think he or any other man can say too much for that brave man.
At the time of the Seven Days' fighting in front of Richmond our battalion was at old Camp Lee and Sturdivant's battery and S. T. Martin's battery, of which the writer was a member, were not equipped for service, but we were ordered to the front all the same.
I don't know just where Studivant's company was sent, but I was on picket duty between Richmond and the battlefields. That was in the summer of 1862.
In May, 1864, when General Grant landed his troops at City Point, and our small force held Petersburg. I was acting as courier for the commanding officer of our battalion, F. J. Boggs and was sent on that memorable day to carry a dispatch to Sturdivant. I road down the City Point road to our lines, and knew not where to find the Captain until I met with R. A. Pryor. He told me where Sturdivant was and I crossed the road leading to Prince George Courthouse and upon the hill at ___(looks like 205) battery, I found Studivant.
I went back to Petersburg and that night Captain Sturdivant and his men stood to their guns and fired at the enemy until they broke through our lines and took him prisoner. After he was exchanged, he was promoted to the rank of major of that battalion, and Captain Boggs was sent to some other command. The last time I remember to have seen Major Sturdivant was on Sunday morning , April 9, 1865, when he gave me a piece of Old Virginia bacon and bread to eat between Appomattox Courthouse and Lynchburg.
D. P. JOHNSON
Carsley, Va.

Military:
David Peyton Johnson served in the Civil War in Martin's Battery (CO. B, 12th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery) detailed as a battalion wagon driver then later detached as a courier for Major Boggs.

Census:

1900 United States Federal Census about David Johnson
Name:      David Johnson
Age:      59
Birth Date:      Aug 1840
Birthplace:      Virginia
Home in 1900:      Guildford, Surry, Virginia
Race:      White
Gender:      Male
Relation to Head of House:      Head
Marital Status:      Married
Spouse's Name:      Mahala Johnson
Marriage Year:      1867
Years Married:      33
Father's Birthplace:      Virginia
Mother's Birthplace:      Virginia
Occupation: Farmer

Census:

1910 United States Federal Census about David D Johnson
Name:      David D Johnson
Age in 1910:      70
Birth Year:      abt 1840
Birthplace:      Virginia
Home in 1910:      Guilford, Surry, Virginia
Race:      White
Gender:      Male
Relation to Head of House:      Head
Marital Status:      Married
Spouse's Name:      Mahala E Johnson
Father's Birthplace:      Virginia
Mother's Birthplace:      Virginia
Neighbors:      View others on page
Household Members:     
Name      Age
David D Johnson      70
Mahala E Johnson      65
Jack R Johnson      25 (listed as Son)

David married ROGERS Mahala Elizabeth on 29 Jan 1867 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Mahala (daughter of ROGERS John Clark, Sr. and BOOTH Mary Ellis) was born on 20 Sep 1844 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 8 May 1923; was buried in Surry County, VA (Johnson Family Cemetary). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Burial: Surry County, VA (Rogers Family Cemetary, Off Rt.40)
• Reference Number: 671

Notes:

Update on names Pattie Arwood (1-3-2004)

Notes:

Married:
married at Pleasant Hill farm

Notes:

Had 10 children per obit

William married ANDREWS Elizabeth Rebecca on 13 Apr 1879. Elizabeth was born on 25 Jun 1853; died on 13 Apr 1922; was buried in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Rebecca Andrews was the second wife of William Thomas Rogers, and the mother of Ruth Ella Rogers