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Marriage: Children:
  1. Maria Louisa Johnson: Birth: 22 MAR 1816 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: 04 MAR 1895 in Meridian, Sutter County, California, USA

  2. Edward Albert Johnson: Birth: 08 DEC 1818 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: 26 JAN 1897 in Madison County, Missouri, USA

  3. Elbert S Johnson: Birth: 24 DEC 1820 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Death: 13 MAR 1894 in Perry County, Missouri, USA

  4. Mary Ann Marzella Johnson: Birth: 22 SEP 1822 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 11 MAY 1909 in Perry County, Missouri, USA

  5. Margaret Jane Johnson: Birth: 24 APR 1826 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 12 MAY 1845 in Missouri, USA


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Willie Ellen Johnson: Birth: 23 OCT 1831 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 15 DEC 1859 in St Francois Twp, Madison County, Missouri, USA

  2. William Constant Johnson: Birth: 10 MAY 1834 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: BEF JUL 1856 in Perry County, Missouri, USA

  3. Richard Riley Johnson: Birth: 26 JUN 1837 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 30 MAR 1908 in Buckhorn, Madison County, Missouri, USA

  4. Elizabeth Rebecca Johnson: Birth: 13 JUN 1841 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 13 MAR 1873 in Madison County, Missouri, USA

  5. Benjamin Franklin Johnson: Birth: 14 MAY 1843 in Perry County, Missouri, USA. Death: 17 JUN 1922 in St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA

  6. George Washington Johnson: Birth: 24 APR 1847 in Buckhorn, Madison County, Missouri, USA. Death: 13 JAN 1925 in Thompson Ford, Madison County, Missouri, USA


Notes
a. Note:   H64
Note:   Noble Johnson was born September 7, 1796, Lancaster County, South Carolina. According to the best evidence I can find he died on July 16, 1873, in Madison County, Missouri, and is interred in the Farquhar-Graham Cemetery, Madison County, Missouri. On April 6, 1814, he married Catherine Jane Burns in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, the daughter of Andrew Burns III and Jane Grier. Following her death he married second Margaret Pinkerton on January 31, 1829, Perry County, Missouri. Margaret Pinkerton was born October 18, 1806, in North Carolina (in one census she is a native of Virginia) and is the daughter of John Pinkerton and Katherine Fox (the spelling is Katherine when she signed a waiver of right to administer the estate of her husband).
  Volunteering at the age of seventeen, Noble Johnson enlisted with his older brother Davis and they joined the company of Missouri Mounted Militia commanded by Captain Hugh Tinnin from Cape Girardeau District during the War of 1812. He served in Colonel Stephen Byrds Regiment and was honorably discharged in St. Louis on October 14, 1814. Hostilities by tribal bands broke out during the War of 1812 and exposed the difficulty of defending a dispersed population. The British armed Sauk and Meskwaki [Fox] constituted the principal military threat to the Missouri settlements and in 1814 the frontier exploded due to the policies of Great Britain and the failure of United States Indian policy to honorably treat with the Sauk and Fox tribes. Consequently, the men under the command of Hugh Tinnin were assigned to defend the settlers west of the Mississippi.
  Following the War of 1812 Noble Johnson established his home in Perry County by at least 1822. According to the obituary for his daughter Mary Ann Marzella (Johnson) Farrar, she was born in Perry County, Missouri, on September 22, 1822. He was a blacksmith by trade which he may have learned from his older brother Davis Johnson and he established a blacksmith shop in Brazaris Township. By 1848 he moved his blacksmith business to Madison County.
  Noble Johnson was an active member of the Baptist church and served as a messenger in the St. Francois Baptist Association for Little Vine Baptist Church. According to the Minutes of the St. Francois Baptist Association, he served as a messenger to the associational meetings from Little Vine Baptist Church in 1851, 1852, 1854, and 1857. During 1851 he served as a messenger with his brother Davis and for quite a few years with his nephew Rev. Joseph D. Johnson.
  On September 10, 1860, James M. Spiva of Madison County exercised the assignment of a warrant received from Noble Johnson for 160 acres as bounty land granted to Noble for military service during the War of 1812. The tract of land was located in Stoddard County, Missouri.
  In January of 1869 Noble Johnson decided to retire and in consideration of love and affection for his two children, Elizabeth Rebecca Johnson Graham, wife of John B. Graham, and George Washington Johnson, husband of Mary Ellen Graham, he conveyed his tract of land in Madison County to them. In return, they promised to provide for Noble’s support for the rest of his life.  In March of 1872 the children and their spouses, together with their father, agreed to sell the land for the sum of $2,000. Thereafter, on August 30, 1872, the parties agreed to execute a Bond for Support  wherein the children agreed to bind themselves to perform their previous undertaking to provide and care for their father in his old age as originally promised when the land was conveyed to them in 1869. Most of his land holdings were acquired by bargain and sale with additional acreage obtained by bounty for military service and cash-entry and claiming a pre-emptive right by filing supporting documents with the General Land Office in Jackson. As a result of his estate planning and the conveyance of his real estate holdings during his lifetime, there were no assets subject to administration when he died intestate and consequently he left no estate.
  Children born to Noble Johnson and Jane Burns:
  Maria (Mariah) Louisa Johnson born March 22, 1816
 Edward Albert Johnson born December 8, 1818
 Elbert S. Johnson born December 24, 1820
 MaryAnn Marzella Johnson born September 22, 1822
 Margret Jane Johnson born April 24, 1826
  Children born to Noble Johnson and second wife Margret Pinkerton:
  Willie Ellen Johnson born October 23, 1831
 William Constant Johnson born May 10, 1834
 Richard Riley Johnson born June 26, 1837
 Elizabeth Rebecca Johnson born June 13, 1841
 Benjamin Franklin Johnson born May 11, 1843
 George Washington Johnson born April 24, 1847
  Notes from a manuscript
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