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JOHNSON David Peyton

JOHNSON David Peyton

Male 1840 - 1919  (79 years)

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  • Name JOHNSON David Peyton 
    Birth 5 Aug 1840  Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Military 2 May 1862  [2
    Confederate Army 
    • 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  Guilford, Surry, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 

    • 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  Guilford, Surry, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 

    • 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)
    Alt. Burial Surry County, VA (Rogers Family Cemetary, Off Rt.40) Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Alt. Name David Paten Jphnson  [1
    Name David Paten  [4
    Reference Number 672 
    Death 12 Aug 1919  Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial Surry County, VA (Johnson Family Cemetary) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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. [5]
    Person ID I349  Booth Family
    Last Modified 20 Nov 2014 

    Father JOHNSON Edmund,   b. Abt 1788, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850 (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Mother HOBBS Sara "Sally",   b. Between 1800 and 1805, Sussex County, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1840 and 1850, Sussex County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 40 years) 
    Marriage 7 Mar 1837  [6
    Family ID F3266  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ROGERS Mahala Elizabeth,   b. 20 Sep 1844, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1923 (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 29 Jan 1867  Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • married at Pleasant Hill farm [2]
    Children 
     1. JOHNSON Sidney Thomas,   b. 20 Jan 1868   d. 4 Sep 1942, Claremont, Surry County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     2. JOHNSON Mary Elizabeth,   b. 8 May 1870   d. 22 Nov 1893 (Age 23 years)
     3. JOHNSON Floyd Ivan (Iman),   b. 5 Mar 1872   d. 25 Dec 1915 (Age 43 years)
     4. JOHNSON Wilder Lee,   b. 3 May 1874   d. 4 Aug 1957 (Age 83 years)
     5. JOHNSON Joseph Franklin,   b. 28 Jul 1876   d. 23 Jan 1943 (Age 66 years)
     6. JOHNSON Asa Bernard, Sr.,   b. 25 Sep 1879   d. 18 Feb 1954 (Age 74 years)
     7. JOHNSON Pattie Mae,   b. 21 Oct 1882, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1932, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     8. JOHNSON Jack Rogers,   b. 1885   d. 1911 (Age 26 years)
    Family ID F132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Aug 2013 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1900 - Guilford, Surry, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1910 - Guilford, Surry, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsAlt. Burial - - Surry County, VA (Rogers Family Cemetary, Off Rt.40) Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Surry County, VA (Johnson Family Cemetary) Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Photos
    Rogers: Mahala Elizabeth
    Rogers: Mahala Elizabeth
    Family portrait with husband David Peyton (Patin) Johnson and son Sidney Thomas Johnson
    Johnson: David Peyton Home
    Johnson: David Peyton Home
    The old Johnson Homested. This was later owned by Nora Rogers and rented to Hart Saunders and was left to him in Nora's will.
    Johnson: David & Mahala
    Johnson: David & Mahala
    1900 census info

  • Sources 
    1. [S296] Rogers Family Assoc, Rogers Family Assoc (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1099] Brenda Johnson Duckwall Notes, Brenda Johnson Duckwall Notes.

    3. [S16] Doris Jean Goodrich Johnson (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S296] Rogers Family Assoc, Rogers Family Assoc, email from William A. Fox of the Rogers family Association and their web site (Reliability: 2).

    5. [S1191] William Adler Fox and Bertha Johnson Bartlett, Some Johnsons of Surry by William Adler Fox, (Copied and reprinted by verbal permission to Gene C. Harris by the author 7/13/2013 : William A. Fox, December 1978) (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S1099] Brenda Johnson Duckwall Notes, Brenda Johnson Duckwall Notes (Reliability: 3).