
Person Info
Uriah Johnson: Birth: ABT 1812 in German Twp, Territory of Missouri. Death: 05 DEC 1873 in Madison County, Missouri, USA
Margaret Elizabeth Johnson: Birth: ABT 1818 in Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: 29 JUL 1863 in Madison County, Missouri, USA
Rebecca Johnson: Birth: ABT 1819 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: BEF APR 1852 in Madison County, Missouri, USA
Joseph Darlington Johnson: Birth: 01 DEC 1821 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Death: 25 JUL 1907 in Meridian, Sutter County, California, USA
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Note: H19 Note: CATO-L Archives Archiver > CATO > 2006-04 > 1145672116 Subject: Elizabeth Cato/Davis Johnson Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:15:16 EDT Adruain wrote: >John >Would you post the storyline on Davis and Elizabeth again, >I seemed to have misplaced it. How Davis died, and she ended >up in California and her being buried around Sacramento. The following is a snapshot of some of my research concerning Davis Johnson and Elizabeth Cato and the events that brought Elizabeth to Sutter County, CA: The father of Davis Johnson, David Johnson, died intestate in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and the administration of his estate was commenced on Friday, March 21, 1823, with the filing of a petition by his son Jonathan Johnson for granting of Letters of Administration. Included in the petition is a sworn allegation of the heirs of David Johnson pursuant to the laws of intestate succession. The petition sets forth the names of all the heirs and the surviving widow. David and Margaret Johnson had eight known children. The placement of some of the children is rather difficult for lack of data and direct evidence, but based on the available information to date the following order of birth is deemed to be the most reasonable and all the children except Sarah appear to be natives of the Carolinas. Sarah was born in KY and unfortunately the 1880 census slots for nativity of parents are blank. William Johnson born circa 1784 and died 1827 Davis Johnson born circa 1786 and died 1853 Willie Elmey Johnson born circa 1788 and died before 1823 Jonathan Johnson born circa 1791 and died 1830 Constant Johnson born circa 1793 and died by 1840 Noble Johnson born 1796 and died 1873 Ransom Johnson born circa 1800 and died 1845 Sarah Johnson born circa 1805 and died after 1880 Davis Johnson was born about 1786 in South Carolina and died on April 3, 1853 in Madison County, MO and married on August 17, 1809, in Christian County, Kentucky, Elizabeth “Betsy” Cato. The ceremony was performed by Thomas Woods, the same Justice of the Peace who solemnized the marriage of his brother William Johnson and Jane McGee. Davis Johnson is interred in Little Vine Cemetery in Liberty Township, Madison County, Missouri. Elizabeth “Betsy” Cato was born (calc) February 1, 1784 in South Carolina and died February 4, 1878 in Meridian, Sutter County, California. Davis Johnson served in the Missouri Mounted Militia during the War of 1812 and as his widow she applied for benefits and recited in an affidavit her marriage to Davis Johnson in Christian County, KY. The children born to Davis Johnson and Elizabeth Cato who survived to become adults include the following (with Rebecca predeceasing her father): Uriah Johnson born about 1812 Margaret Johnson born about 1818 Rebecca Johnson born about 1819 Joseph Darlington Johnson born December 1, 1821 Joseph D. Johnson, son of Elizabeth Cato and Davis Johnson, was born December 1, 1821 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and died July 25, 1907 in Meridian, Sutter County, California. He married his cousin May 19, 1844 in Madison County, Missouri, the widow Maria Louisa (Johnson) Moss, the marriage officiated by William Wayne Settles, a preacher of the Gospel. Maria Louisa Johnson is the daughter of Noble Johnson and Jane Burns, born March 22, 1816 in Cape Girardeau County, Territory of Missouri, and died March 4, 1895 in Meridian, Sutter County, California. This was Maria Louisa Johnson’s second marriage. Reverend Joseph D. Johnson never had children. Maria's first marriage was to Joseph L. Moss who died in Feb of 1842 in Randolph County, IL Maria's father Noble Johnson was the administrator of the estate. During her marriage with Joseph Moss she had two daughters, Susan and Mary, and in 1853 Susan married Her second cousin Hugh Johnson, one of the sons of Uriah Johnson and wife Clarrisa Frizzell. Susan and Hugh had two children, William Constant Johnson and Maria Louisa Johnson and by 1859 Susan died and Joseph D. Johnson and Maria thereafter cared for Susan's two children. After the death of Rebecca (Johnson) Frizzell, wife of Thomas Frizzell [Jr], Thomas Frizzell remarried but he died in Dec of 1855 and so Joseph and Maria also took in Rebecca's two youngest children, Salathiel Frizzell and David Frizzell. It will be remembered that Rebecca is Joseph Johnson's sister and Thomas Frizzell was his brother-in-law as he was the brother of Clarrisa Frizzell who married Uriah Johnson. During the Civil War Joseph Johnson served under the command of Daniel McGee and was one of the Missourians who refused to leave the state. With the above background it can now be understood why the two youngsters, David Frizzell and Maria L. Johnson, accompanied Joseph Johnson and his wife Maria when they decided to journey overland to California and start a new life. Maria's grandson, William Constant Johnson stayed in Missouri with his father Hugh Johnson and step-mother Nancy (Murray) Johnson and he is enumerated in 1870 in the household of his father Hugh. However, in 1871 William C. Johnson also moved to California to join them and brought his great grandmother Elizabeth (Cato) Johnson with him; a research thread indicates that they took the Central Pacific to Sacramento. In the 1870 census for Sutter County Joseph and Maria are enumerated with Maria Johnson and David Frizzell in their household; Elizabeth (Cato) Johnson is not with them which raises the presumption that she did not journey to California until 1871 and thus came with William so her son Joseph could care for her during her declining years. In 1860 Elizabeth is with Joseph Johnson and is listed as a farmer; she was not enumerated in 1870 but I have found this to also be true of others that I know were living in Madison County and were missed or the marshals lost some of the pages. She lived to see the marriages of her two great grandchildren: Maria married Albert Ernest Davis July 6, 1871, and William married Jane McAuslan July 3, 1876, with Albert Davis being one of the witnesses. There is evidence that Joseph and Maria joined the overland train of Ananais Land and his relatives when they left Creek Nation in Madison County in 1869, with the Land party continuing on to Linn County, OR. (Article in the Fredericktown Democrat News, Jan 18, 1922, about the pioneers in the Big Creek area of Madison County). However, Joseph Johnson was still in Madison County to conduct the ceremony of marriage of George W. Johnson (son of Noble Johnson) and Mary Ellen Graham on July 18, 1869. The middle of July would be much too late in the year to depart across the plains to California, and thus it is more reasonable to believe that they arrived in California in 1870 in time to be enumerated and once settled to then have William accompany Elizabeth (Cato) Johnson to join them. Elizabeth Cato is buried in the Meridian Cemetery and is the oldest person as well as having the earliest date of birth in the cemetery. She died in the home of her son Rev. Joseph D. Johnson who was a Baptist minister in Meridian until his death July 24, 1907. Her monument states at the top "Elizabeth Cato" and under that in script "Wife of Davis Johnson", "Died Feb 4, 1878, Age 94 yrs and 4 d's", and at the bottom of the stone is the entire verse of Rev. XV, Chapter VIII "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth Yea, saith the Spirit, that their works do follow them," David Frizzell is buried to her left, born (calc) February 15, 1851, died May 20, 1872, with an inscription that he was a native of Madison County. Missouri. On the right hand side is the tome of Maria Louisa Johnson Moss Johnson and her 2nd husband Rev. Joseph Darlington Johnson. So in Meridian Cemetery we have members of the Cato, Frizzell, and Johnson families and just as we find them intermarrying in Kentucky and Missouri eventually I believe we will find them together in the Carolinas. Forgive me for not including the citations to the evidence for the above as otherwise this would have been even longer as this is abstracted from my 180 page and growing narrative of the descendants of David and Margaret Johnson (copyright 2006). John This thread: • Elizabeth Cato/Davis Johnson by "Adruain Cato" <[email protected]> ◦ Elizabeth Cato/Davis Johnson by [email protected] ▪ Re: [CATO] Elizabeth Cato/Davis Johnson by "Adruain Cato" <[email protected]> RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Learn more. About Us | Contact Us | Acceptable Use Policy | PRIVACY STATEMENT | Copyright © 2014 Ancestry.com |
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