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Marriage: Children:
  1. Cynthia Ann Johnson: Birth: ABT 1809 in Christian County, Kentucky, USA. Death: 1851 in Duck Creek, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA

  2. Wilson Thompson Johnson: Birth: ABT 1813 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA.

  3. Joseph Johnson: Birth: ABT 1816 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: 10 JAN 1865 in Regimental Hospital, Missouri, USA

  4. Benjamin Franklin Johnson: Birth: ABT 1818 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: 20 DEC 1871 in Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA

  5. David Green Johnson: Birth: ABT 1823 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA.

  6. Jonathan Calvin Luther Johnson: Birth: ABT 1825 in Tennessee, USA. Death: JAN 1859 in Stoddard County, Missouri, USA


Notes
a. Note:   H9
Note:   William Johnson was born about 1784 in Lancaster County, South Carolina and died in April of 1827, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. He married on April 1, 1808, in Christian County, Kentucky, Jane (Jean) McGee (McGeehee and various other spellings), the same day that the marriage license or bond was signed and filed with the Clerk of Court. The ceremony of marriage was conducted by Thomas Woods, a Justice of the Peace.
  William Johnson served in the United States military during the War of 1812 by enlisting in the Missouri Territory Mounted Militia of Captain Abraham Doughertys Company under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Dodge, the sheriff of the St. Genevieve district. During the War of 1812 he commanded an expeditionary force from the eastern Missouri settlements into central Missouri territory as far as the Missouri River according to an interview with Henry Dodge on June 29, 1855, as reported in the Draper Manuscripts (11C81 and 15C9). James Cato, the brother of Elizabeth Cato and wife of Davis Johnson and thus William's brother-in-law, also served in the same command during the War of 1812. According to the records of the US Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, William Johnson was born in 1784 in the state of North Carolina.
  William Johnson was a farmer, raised livestock, and was a Justice of the Peace for German Township by 1818 according to a published history. When German Township was subdivided to create Lorance Township in 1824, William Johnson was appointed to serve as Justice of the Peace for the new Lorance Township, while his brother-in-law John Baker was appointed to serve as Judge of Elections. Lewis Cato signed some of the estate papers as a Justice of the Peace in Cape Girardeau County, a relative of Elizabeth (Cato) Johnson and the sister-in-law of the deceased.
  Quite a collection of books were included in the estate of William Johnson including The Digest of Missouri and a dictionary. Some other interesting items in the inventory of his estate included a tomahawk, sword, drum and flute [floot], and the usual hunting rifle and powder pouch.
  Notes from a manuscript © 2007 All rights reserved


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