SMITH Bernard Brian

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Macon, GA; President, Architectual Mill

Notes:

Occupation:
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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• From: Macon, GA
• Occupation: Macon, GA; President, Architectual Mill

Notes:

Occupation:
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.

Cathey married JOHNSON Bonnie Sue on 3 Aug 1963. Bonnie (daughter of JOHNSON Asa Bernard, Jr. and ADAMS Lucille) was born on 19 Jul 1941 in Macon, Bibb County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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