JOHNSON Bonnie Sue

Notes:

Thanks so much, Gene. My dad was so proud of his Virginia heritage. He always told my mom that Georgia was settled by debtors' prison inmates. In my research ,I found my mom's close ancestors were from Virginia. I guess they came south looking for cheap land through a lottery. My great grandfather who served in the Civil War was an overseer on someone else's plantation north of Macon. So maybe my dad was right. All of this is so interesting! Why didn't they tell us more? Again, thank you for such a fantastic website. Bonnie

Gene, here is information I have. Asa Bernard Johnson, Jr. ( No one in these parts called him Bernard; here he was known as Johnny.) Born: Nov.29 1907 in Danville, Va. Died: August 27, 1976 in Macon, Ga. of Emphysema. Notes: A. B. J. Jr. served in the United States Navy in World War 11. According to the US Muster Roles , he served on the ship Antaeus and was mustered out June 11, 1944. He was a part of the effort to supply American Troops fighting in Northern Africa. He was a Manufacturer's Representative (salesman), showing samples from manufacturers in New York to retailers across the South East. He married Lucille Adams of Taylor County, Ga. (don't have the date) and they had one daughter, Bonnie Sue. Lucille's parents were Cora Davis of Taylor County and John Quincy Adams of Macon County. Notes: Lucille's paternal grandmother was Emma Rumph, a part of the Rumph family famous for producing a new variety of peach at their Willow Lake plantation in Macon County, Ga. Samuel Lewis Rumph, an early horticulturalist, named it the Elberta Peach after his wife. Later, he developed an ice packed railroad car to transport Georgia peaches as far away as New York.
Bonnie Sue Johnson (Bonnie) was born July 19, 1941 in Macon, Ga.-Bibb County. She married Cathey Alexander Smith of Macon born Oct.9, 1941 on August 3, 1963. Cathey's maternal second great grandfather, Osgood Willingham, founded an Architectual mill working company in 1882 that still operates in Macon today and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Cathey served as its President until his death in 2005. His and Bonnie's oldest son, Brian, holds that title today. Bonnie and Cathey had 3 sons: Bernard Brian Smith born January 25, 1966, Cathey Alexander Smith, Jr. born June 8, 1969 and Adams Hearn Smith born January 27, 1975. Cathey Alexander Smith, Jr. has three daughters: Allyson Grace born Dec. 7, 2000, Melanie Kim born Oct. 1, 2002 and Anna Catherine Smith born June 13, 2005.
Bonnie remarried in 2007 Robert Watson Hearn, Jr. born Dec. 23, 1937 in Macon, Ga.
Gene, I hope this information is usable ( not too much- not too little) and in a format someone can decipher. Later, I would like to add pictures, if appropriate. Thanks again, Bonnie

Bonnie married SMITH Cathey Alexander, Sr. on 3 Aug 1963. Cathey was born on 9 Oct 1941; died in 2005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. SMITH Cathey Alexander, Jr.
2. SMITH Bernard Brian was born on 25 Jan 1966.
3. SMITH Adams Hearn was born on 27 Jan 1975.
4. SMITH Adams Hearn was born on 27 Jan 1975.

Bonnie married HEARN Robert Watson, Jr. in 2007. Robert was born on 23 Dec 1937 in Macon, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Johnny
• Occupation: Manufacturer's Rep
• Military: 11 Jun 1944, Various; US Navy in WW-II

Notes:

Thanks so much, Gene. My dad was so proud of his Virginia heritage. He always told my mom that Georgia was settled by debtors' prison inmates. In my research ,I found my mom's close ancestors were from
Virginia. I guess they came south looking for cheap land through a lottery. My great grandfather who served in the Civil War was an overseer on someone else's plantation north of Macon. So maybe my dad was right. All of this is so interesting! Why didn't they tell us more? Again, thank you for such a fantastic website. Bonnie

Occupation:
Showed samples from New York to retailers across the southeast.

Military:
According to US Muster Rolls, he served on the ship Antaesus and was mustered out June 11th, 1944. He was part of the Effort to supply American Troops fighting in North Africa.

Asa married ADAMS Lucille. Lucille (daughter of ADAMS John Quincy and DAVIS Cora) was born on 28 Sep 1911 in Taylor County, Ga; died in 1989 in Macon, GA; was buried in Macon, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Lived(s) In: Taylor County. GA

Notes:

(Medical):Lucille's paternal grandmother was Emma Rumph, a part of the Rumph family famous for producing a new variety of peach at their Willow Lake Plantation in Macon County, Ga. Samuel Lewis Rumph, an early horticulturists, named it the Elberta Peach after his wife. Later he developed an ice packed railroad car to transport Georgia peaches as far away as New York.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Employment: Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Rogers Family Store
• Military: Colonial Heights, , Virginia; WW-II Draft Registration
• Census: 1930, Colonial Heights, , Virginia; 1930 Census
• Employment: Abt 1930, Petersburg, VA; Store at 627 Grove Avenue
• Residence: 1937, Petersburg, VA; 303 Lafayette Av

Notes:

Deceased: ASA JOHNSON
Deceased Information Last Name: JOHNSON
First Name: ASA
Middle Name: BERNARD
Identifiers Birthdate:
Date of Death: 2/18/1954
Interment Date: 2/20/1954
Race: WHITE
Sex: MALE
Age: 74
Other Information Parentage: DAVID & MAHALIA JOHNSON
Birthplace: SURRY COUNTY VIRGINIA
Place of Death:
Residence At Time of Grave Purchase Address:
Apartment:
City:
State:
Zip:
Attending Doctor: J. P. THWEATT
Funeral Home/Crematory J. T. MORRIS
Grave Id: 18427
Ward: RR
Section #: 10
Square: 7 (W 1/2)
Location: W 1/2 2ND SW CORNER
Location Grave #: 1
New/Old Grounds: NEW
Type of Vault: B

Employment:
Asa, as a young boy, worked in the Rogers' family stores. One the old store in Spring Grove is no longer standing. The Rogers family owned several stores. One at Carsley and one at Spring Grove were two of them. Ramey, who was related to the Rogers family also owned a store.

Asa Bernard Johnson worked in the Rogers Store on Carsley road (corner of Carsley and Otterdam Roads) across the road from Carsley United Methodist Church when he was young. This store was owned by Asa's mother (Mahala Elizabeth Rogers') family. While working at the store, Asa wrote arithmetic equations and signed his name in several places on the plaster wall of the building behind the store. Rogers Store at the corner of Carsley and Otterdam Roads has been restored and is open as a museum. The signatures of Asa Bernard Johnson can be seen on the wall. At the present, there are numerous store ledgers still existing with many family names and what they purchased. Call the Surry County Historical Society to view the store and its many interesting contents.

A portrait painted by Asa's grand daughter, Brenda Johnson Duckwall, of Asa's father, David Peyton Johnson (husband of Mahala Elizabeth Rogers), hangs in the store.


He later owned a grocery store on Grove Avenue in Petersburg, Virginia.

note: per Doris Jean Goodrich Johnson this store was owned by Nora Rogers when Doris Jean was a child) and was on Rt.10 Rt.40 NW side at Spring Grove in the triangle. 2 story with an attached wharehouse type building.

Asa Bernard Johnson and his wife Nelie were very generous and kind people especially evident during the Depression Years. Asa was not much concerned with making a profit from his store. He frequently let people have food "on credit" whether or not they could pay him back. They also took people into their modest home at 303 Lafayette Avenue in Colonial Heights.

Military:
WW II Draft Registration From Ancestry.com

Asa Bernard Johnson
303 Lafayette Ave.
Colonial Heights, VA
62 years old. Birthdate Sept. 25,1879
Birth: Surry County, Virginia
Wife: Mrs. Cornelia Harrison Johnson

Self-employed
A. B. JOHNSON'S GROCERY
627 Grove Avenue
Petersburg, VA

SIGNED A. B. Johnson

The painted name of this grocery was and may still be visible on the side of the actual grocery or a nearby brick building. The actual grocery store was at 627 Grove Avenue.

Census:
The 1930 Census shows the following people living at 303 Lafayette Avenue, Colonial Heights:

Asa B. Johnson 50 years old
Nelie A. Johnson 43
Harrison Johnson 10 (David Harrison Johnson, son)
Rosa Bland 23
Ruth Goodrich 21
Sarah Lane 19

1930 United States Census, Asa and Nellie are listed as living at 303 Lafayette Ave. Colonial Heights, Chesterfield County, Virginia,
The Census was done on April 15, 1930 and Nellie A. Johnson is listed as 43 making her birth year 1886. It gives the value of his home (Asa) as $3,500 and that he is a Merchant, Grocer, working on his own account. Listed in the household are: Asa, Nellie, their son Harrison Johnson (David Harrison Johnson), Rosa Bland, Ruth Goodrich, and Sarah Lane.

Employment:
Owned a store on Grove Ave in Petersburg

Residence:
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
about Asa B Johnson
Name: Asa B Johnson          
Gender: Male          
Residence Year: 1937          
Street address: 303 Lafayette av Colonial Hts          
Residence Place: Petersburg, Virginia, USA          
Occupation: Salesman          
Spouse: Nelia A Johnson          
Publication Title: Petersburg, Virginia, City Directory, 1937          

Buried:
Asa Bernard Johnson, Sr.

Asa Bernard Johnson, Sr. 74, Merchant, residing at 303 Lafayette Avenue, Colonial Heights, died yesterday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock in Petersburg General Hospital after an illness of six months.

Mr. Johnson was a native of Surry County but had lived in Colonial Heights for the past 28 years.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nelie Harrison Johnson of Colonial Heights, two sons: Asa Bernard Johnson, Jr. Of Macon, GA and David Harrison Johnson, of Petersburg; brother, Wilder Johnson, of Richmond, and three grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Chapel of J. T. Morris and Sons. The Rev. James B. Douglass, Pastor of Highland Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Blandford Cemetery.


Deceased: ASA JOHNSON
Deceased InformationLast Name: JOHNSON
First Name: ASA
Middle Name: BERNARD

IdentifiersBirthdate:
Date of Death: 2/18/1954
Interment Date: 2/20/1954
Race: WHITE
Sex: MALE
Age: 74
Other InformationParentage: DAVID & MAHALIA JOHNSON
Birthplace: SURRY COUNTY VIRGINIA
Place of Death:
Residence At Time of Grave PurchaseAddress:
Apartment:
City:
State:
Zip:
AttendingDoctor: J. P. THWEATT
Funeral Home/Crematory J. T. MORRIS
GraveId: 18427
Ward: RR
Section #: 10
Square: 7 (W 1/2)
Location: W 1/2 2ND SW CORNER
LocationGrave #: 1
New/Old Grounds: NEW
Type of Vault: B

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: 1886; Nelie
• Census: 1900, Guilford, Surry, Virginia
• Census: 1910, Guilford, Surry, Virginia
• Religion: 1926, Colonial Heights, , Virginia; at Highland United Methodist Church
• Census: 1930, Colonial Heights, , Virginia

Notes:

She ws 16 months old when her mother died.


Deceased: NELLIE JOHNSON
Deceased Information Last Name: JOHNSON
First Name: NELLIE
Middle Name: ADELEIDE
Identifiers Birthdate:
Date of Death: 7/19/1959
Interment Date: 7/21/1959
Race: WHITE
Sex: FEMALE
Age: 71
Other Information Parentage: W. T. HARRISON
Birthplace: PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA
Place of Death:
Attending Doctor: D. D. MOORE
Funeral Home/Crematory J. T. MORRIS
GraveId: 18428
Ward: RR
Section #: 10
Square: 7 (W 1/2)
Location: W 1/2 CENTER
LocationGrave #: 2
New/Old Grounds: NEW
Type of Vault: BOX

Census:
1900 United States Census was done for June 1900: Nellie is listed as Adalaide C. Harrison. She is 13 years old and her birth year is given as 1886. The Harrison family are living very close to the Johnson family and are in the Guildford District of Surry County, Virginia.

Census:
1910 United States Census was done on May 21, 1910, Nellie Johnson is listed as 23 years old making her birth year 1886. They are listed as living in the Guildford District of Surry County, Virginia.

Religion:
I also went by Highland United Methodist Church in Colonial Heights today and found them in an old record book.
Mr. A. B. Johnson and Mrs. N. A. Johnson joined Highland United Methodist Church in 1926 by Confession of Faith
with Rev. W. H. Atwill. Their home address was given as 303 Lafayette Avenue. There was a handwritten note that
Mr. A. B. Johnson had deceased in 1954... Brenda Duckwall.

Census:
1930 United States Census, Asa and Nellie are listed as living at 303 Lafayette Ave. Colonial Heights, Chesterfield County, Virginia,
The Census was done on April 15, 1930 and Nellie A. Johnson is listed as 43 making her birth year 1886. It gives the value of his home (Asa) as $3,500 and that he is a Merchant, Grocer, working on his own account. Listed in the household are: Asa, Nellie, their son Harrison Johnson (David Harrison Johnson), Rosa Bland, Ruth Goodrich, and Sarah Lane.

Buried:
Deceased: NELLIE JOHNSON
Deceased InformationLast Name: JOHNSON
First Name: NELLIE
Middle Name: ADELEIDE

IdentifiersBirthdate:
Date of Death: 7/19/1959
Interment Date: 7/21/1959
Race: WHITE
Sex: FEMALE
Age: 71
Other InformationParentage: W. T. HARRISON
Birthplace: PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA
Place of Death:
Residence At Time of Grave PurchaseAddress:
Apartment:
City:
State:
Zip:
AttendingDoctor: D. D. MOORE
Funeral Home/Crematory J. T. MORRIS
GraveId: 18428
Ward: RR
Section #: 10
Square: 7 (W 1/2)
Location: W 1/2 CENTER
LocationGrave #: 2
New/Old Grounds: NEW
Type of Vault: BOX

Notes:

Married:
Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
about Asa Bernard Johnson
Name: Asa Bernard Johnson nbsp;   
Gender: Male nbsp;   
Marital Status: Single nbsp;   
Age: 26 nbsp;   
Birth Date: 1880 nbsp;   
Birth Place: Surry, Virginia nbsp;   
Marriage Date: 19 Dec 1906 nbsp;   
Marriage Place: Surry, Virginia nbsp;   
Father: David P. Johnson nbsp;   
Mother: Mahala Johnson nbsp;   
Spouse: Cornelia Adalaide Harrison nbsp;   
FHL Film Number: 34153 nbsp;   
Reference ID: P.110 #74     
Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013<sup>.

Nellie's marriage certificate has her as 21 years old on the date of their marriage which took place in Surry County, Virginia on Dec. 19, 1906. This birth year does not match with any other birth year for her.

Nellie's name on her marriage certificate is Cornelia Adalaide Harrison putting Cornelia ahead of Adalaide in this document. Later documents show her using the name "Nellie" (taken from Cornelia), Mrs. N. A. Johnson or Nellie Adalaide Johnson.</sup>


    

Other Events and Attributes:

• From: Macon, GA
• Military: 20 Apr 1864, Georgia; Confederate Army

Notes:

Military:
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
about Floyd A Adams
Name: Floyd A Adams          
Residence: Georgia          
Age at Enlistment: 17          
Enlistment Date: 20 Apr 1864          
Rank at enlistment: Private          
State Served: Georgia          
Survived the War?: Yes          
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, Georgia 45th Infantry Regiment on 20 Apr 1864.Mustered out on 09 Apr 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.          
Birth Date: 8 Aug 1846          
Sources: Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865Southern Historical Society Papers: Appomattox Paroles ANV          

Died:
Georgia, Deaths Index, 1914-1927
about John S Adams
Name: John S Adams          
Birth Date: abt 1879          
Birth Place: Crawford County, Georgia          
Death Date: 15 May 1923          
Death Place: Bolingbroke, Monroe          
Death Age: 44          
Race: White          
Ethnicity: American          
Marital Status: Married          
Gender: Male          
Father Name: Gus Adams          
Mother Name: Emma Rult          
Spouse Name: Cora Adams          
FHL Film Number: 2320739          

Other Events and Attributes:

• From: Taylor County, Ga

Notes:

Died:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98
about Cora Adams
Name: Cora Adams               
Death Date: 24 Aug 1968               
County of Death: Bibb               
Gender: F (Female)               
Race: White               
Age: 78 Years               
County of Residence: Bibb               
Certificate: 024607               
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              

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
.......................................................
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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 304
• Census: 1880, Guilford, Surry, Virginia

Notes:

Received from Brenda Duckwall, 1/2011:

Joshua had a son, William Franklin Harrison, who had a daughter, Adelaide Cornelia Harrison, that had a
son, David Harrison Johnson, who is my father.

One of my New Year goals is to try to link Joshua with the President Harrison line. I think that he may have
been a cousin of some sort. I think that they were all well off financially since they are related to the Booths,
sent William Franklin Harrison's wife, Sarah E. Baird, to France to receive treatments for T.B. Sarah died
January 22, 1888 of T.B. leaving my grandmother who was only 16 months old. I have sympathy for William
loosing his wife, having young children to take care of, and loosing his father when he was a teenager. I guess he was too preoccupied to keep family records but I would like to go back and find out what his grandparents (Joshua's parents) names were and possibly link our family to the Presidents.

from Brenda Duckwall:

The Harrison Home is at 3840 Otterdam Road in Surry County.

The land where the home is located and about 1000 acres belonged to our Ellis ancestors from the early 1600's. The land and original home was given by Bolling Ellis to his daughter and our ancestor Ann Rebecca Ellis who married Joshua Simmons Harrison. It was passed down or purchased by sons and daughters: William Franklin Harrison, Joshua James Harrison, Julian R. Harrison, Julian R. Harrison, Jr., and presently to Julian R. Harrison III and his sister, Robin Harrison Mitchell.


Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940
Groom's Name: William Franklin Harrison
Groom's Birth Date: 1854
Groom's Birthplace: Prince George, Virginia
Groom's Age: 41
Bride's Name: Ella May Clary
Bride's Birth Date: 1877
Bride's Birthplace: Sussex, Virginia
Bride's Age: 18
Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1895
Marriage Place: Prince George, Virginia
Groom's Father's Name: Joshua S. Harrison
Groom's Mother's Name: Ann R. Harrison
Bride's Father's Name: Thos. L. Clary
Bride's Mother's Name: Emma J. Clary
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status: Widowed
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status: Single

William Franklin Harrison was just 34 almost 35 when his wife died. He had 6 young children and his widowed mother in his house hold. He may have had a sister in the household. His sister and mother did help him with the children. They were all recovering from the Civil War. If his wife's grave is unmarked, it would be understandable that he did not purchase a stone.

This is from the Surry County Historical Society:

The Harrison Farm
located at 3840 Otterdam Road
Surry County, Virginia

"The following information has been researched by Julian R. Harrison, Jr.
The Harrison Farm was once owned by Bolling Ellis. The Ellises were in Surry County as early as 1667. The
original farm consisted of 760 +/- acres. Ann Rebecca Ellis married Joshua Simmons Harrison April 1, 1848 in Surry, Virginia. She inherited the farm from her father, Bolling Ellis.

Joshua James Harrison inherited his part of the farm from his father, William Franklin Harrison, in 1907, and bought the remaining shares from other family members….."

I don't know where Julian received the information whether it was Court records, Wills, or passed down information.
He seemed to check things carefully.

I may have given you a copy of this information with a picture of the house and farm.

Court Records or a Will might firm up the proof….

(Medical):While motoring on the Seashoew State Park at Cape Henry. Died in his automobile

Census:
United States Census, 1880 for William Harrison
Name: William Harrison
Residence: Guilford, Surry, Virginia
Birthdate: 1854
Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Sarah S. Harrison
Spouse's Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Mother's Name: Ann R. Harrison
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 26 years
Occupation:
NARA Film Number: T9-1392
Page: 53
Page Character: A
Entry Number: 442
Film number: 1255392
Household Gender Age
William Harrison M 26
Spouse Sarah S. Harrison F 25
Child Lottie B. Harrison F 2
Child Myrtie V. Harrison F 12
Child Joshua Harrison M 6M
Parent Ann R. Harrison F 50
Parent Addie R. Harrison F 22

Buried:
From: Brenda Johnson Duckwall:
These are stones at Waverly Cemetery in Waverly, Virginia for Joshua James Harrison ("Nellie" Adelaide Cornelia Harrison's brother who had just
had a birthday and turned 8 when his mother died). His daughter, Helen, was just one years old when she died.

William Franklin Harrison and Sarah Ellis Baird Harrison had 6 children: Lottie, Myrtie, Joshua, Herbert, Clarah, and my grandmother, Nellie (long e sound).

When William Franklin Harrison's wife died he moved closer to his mother, Ann Rebecca Ellis Harrison. His mother and sisters helped to take care of the children.
William's oldest child was Lottie Baird Harrison (Wanda Goodrich Temple's grandmother). Lottie had just turned 12 years old when her mother
(Sarah Ellis Baird Harrison) died on her birthday, January 22.

JUST FOUND IN MY NOTES THAT SARAH ELLIS BAIRD HARRISON IS BURIED IN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, NEAR NEWVILLE. So maybe we were on the
trail the other day when we were looking for the Kirkham Cemetery.

Kirkham Cemetery Location in the Report: 1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #618; thence .8 mile northwest on Route #629; thence .1 mile south
of Route #629. Prince George County, Virginia.

Kirkham Cemetery is located about fifty yards east of the residence, in the corner of an open field (1937). The plot is about sixty feet square, fenced in and neatly
kept (as of 1937). There is a lone cedar tree and one tombstone marking two graves.

Graves include: Martha Stainback Kirkham, William Kirkham, Joshua Simmons, 2 young daughters, Ann Simmons Harrison, and her husband, William Thomas Harrison,
James William Harrison, Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband, Peter Stainback, their young son, and possibly more.

I plan to volunteer to help inventory cemeteries in Prince George so maybe we will eventually come across Sarah Ellis Baird Harrison's grave. I'm also looking for William
Franklin Harrison's father's grave. His father was Joshua Simmons Harrison. If Joshua Simmons Harrisons mother was a Simmons, it would make sense for his son
William to bury his wife with his grandmother's family.

William married BAIRD Sarah Ellis on 9 Feb 1875. Sarah (daughter of BAIRD Alexander Peter, Jr. and BOOTH Rebecca Ann) was born on 27 Jan 1854 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 22 Jan 1888 in Mayenne Pays de Loire, France; was buried in Surry County, VA (Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt 612). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 305

Notes:

(Medical):sent William Franklin Harrison's wife, Sarah E. Baird, to France to receive treatments for T.B. where she died.

Hi Gene,

Sarah Ellis Baird Harrison died in 1888. Her daughter married a Goodrich much later but did the Harrison's have a connection with the Goodriches or the Goodrich farm in 1888. There is no marker for Sarah in the Goodrich Cemetery and Sarah is not recorded on either of the cemetery inventory papers that Wanda showed us (written by her family).

The note I found was written by Sarah Johnson (Collier Johnson's wife) when they paid someone years ago to research family history. They think that she is buried in Prince George near Newville.

She died in France (receiving treatments for TB) so I guess there is even a chance that they did not send her body back home.

It's a mystery I guess....

Thanks for all the info and CD! It has been fascinating!!! And very helpful!

Brenda Johnson Duckwall

Sarah was my grandmother, Adelaide Cornelia Harrison's mother. Sarah died of TB in France at Place Mayenne, Pays de la Loiire when my grandmother was just two years old. Sarah had been sent to France by her family to do everything they could to save her. The place that she went was suppose to be one of the best places for recovery but she did not make it.
Looking at the pictures does bring a great deal of sorrow that she must have felt at leaving her husband and young family and meeting her death in a strange and difficult place.

Brenda, from every bit of information I have, I believe this is it...The white car you see belongs to the guard who asked us to leave. The name was changed in 1975 to Medical Center of La Fontaine-au-Bac, but the old sign is still there. You can look it up using Le Claviere Villiers-Charlemagne. All of this is located in the district of Mayenne Pays de Loire. Please forward to Gene Harris and anyone else who might be interested. I have a friend who is willing to write a couple of letters in French to the "town halls" of the area.
Baldwin County is only one county over from us. (abt. 40 MILES.) bONNIE


...Bonnie Hearn

Died:
Brenda, from every bit of information I have, I believe this is it...The white car you see belongs to the guard who asked us to leave. The name was changed in 1975 to Medical Center of La Fontaine-au-Bac, but the old sign is still there. You can look it up using Le Claviere Villiers-Charlemagne. All of this is located in the district of Mayenne Pays de Loire. Please forward to Gene Harris and anyone else who might be interested. I have a friend who is willing to write a couple of letters in French to the "town halls" of the area.
Baldwin County is only one county over from us. (abt. 40 MILES.) bONNIE

According to Sarah Smith Rowell Johnson (wife of Turner Collier Johnson who was the son of Joseph Franklin Johnson and Edmonia Salome Collier).....

Sarah E. Baird Harrison (wife of William Franklin Harrison) who died of TB on January 22, 1888 (the date of her oldest daughter's birthday, Lottie, who had turned 12 years old that day and also leaving my grandmother Nellie who was 16 months old, her other children Joshua, Herbert, Myrtie, and Clarah)

"is buried in Prince George County near Newville."

This could possibly place her at the Kirkham or Simmons Cemetery.

The Coleman Simmons Cemetery is 1.7 miles northwest of Disputanta on 460 then about 100 yards north of 460 in Prince George County.

The Kirkham Cemetery is described to be 1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on route 618; thence .8 mile northwest on Route 629; thence .1 mile south of route 629, Prince George County, Virginia.

The Kirkham Cemetery contains the remains of Joshua Simmons and his daughter, Ann Simmons Harrison and her husband, William Thomas Harrison who are the great grandparents and grandparents of William Franklin Harrison, Sarah E. Baird Harrison's husband.

The Kirkham Cemetery also contains the remains of Joshua Simmons' daughter, Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband, Peter Stainback, and their son, Adolphus "Doll" and daughter Martha Stainback Kirkham.

Susanna Harrison Figg is the sister of Joshua Simmons Harrison who is William Franklin Harrison's father and Sarah E. Baird Harrison's (b. January 27, 1854 - d. January 22, 1888) father-in-law. Susanna is Sarah's aunt in law.

It would make perfect sense for Sarah E. Baird Harrison to be buried there at the Kirkham Cemetery.

Perhaps the new Prince George Cemetery Project and Clarah's grand daughter can help us out. Thanks so much!

Floyd married RUMPH Emma Olivia on 8 Dec 1870 in Houston County, GA. Emma (daughter of RUMPH John Christian and RUMPH Emily --LNU--) was born on 20 May 1850 in Houston County, GA; died on 16 Feb 1924; was buried in Macon, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes: Lucille's paternal grandmother was Emma Rumph, a part of the Rumph family famous for producing a new variety of peach at their Willow Lake plantation in Macon County, Ga. Samuel Lewis Rumph, an early horticulturalist, named it the Elberta Peach after his wife. Later, he developed an ice packed railroad car to transport Georgia peaches as far away as New York.

Died:
Georgia, Deaths Index, 1914-1927
about Emma Adams
Emma Adams [Emma Rurph]          
Birth Date: 20 May 1850          
Birth Place: Georgia          
Death Date: 16 Feb 1924          
Death Place: Macon          
Death Age: 73          
Race: White          
Ethnicity: American          
Sex: Female          
Fathers Name: John Rurph          
FHL Film Number: 2321204          

Notes:

Military:
U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914
about James Davis
Name:James Davis          
Birthyear:abt 1847          
Birthplace:Georgia, United States          
Enlistment Age:19          

Died:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98
about James A Davis
Name: James A Davis               
Death Date: 29 Jan 1945               
County of Death: Carroll               
Gender: M (Male)               
Race: White               
Age:9 5 Years               
Certificate: 231