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Marriage: Children:
  1. Thomas Brooks Johnson: Birth: 20 Sep 1815 in Eddy Grove, Caldwell County, Kentucky. Death: 19 Apr 1870 in Fredonia, Caldwell County, Kentucky

  2. Elizabeth Foster Johnson: Birth: 27 Dec 1817. Death: 25 Aug 1821

  3. Susannah Teague Johnson: Birth: 28 Dec 1819 in Nashville, Tennessee. Death: 16 Aug 1896 in Missouri

  4. John Fletcher Johnson: Birth: 1822 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 17 Jan 1910 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois

  5. George Wesley Johnson: Birth: 26 Jun 1825 in Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky. Death: 6 Jan 1899 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois

  6. James Lewis Johnson: Birth: 1827 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Death: 1829 in Caldwell County, Kentucky

  7. Washington Stewart Johnson: Birth: 1830 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Death: 1909 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois

  8. Adam Clarke Johnson: Birth: 1832 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Death: 1899 in Quitman, Cleburne County, Arkansas

  9. Joseph Benson Johnson: Birth: 27 Sep 1835 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois. Death: 18 Aug 1853 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois


Notes
a. Note:   John, the youngest brother of Lewis and James, came later, in 1834, and located in Mount Vernon. He died here in 1858. His children were Doctor T. B., who died in Kentucky in 1870; the wife of Blackford Casey; J. Fletcher; Washington; G. Wesley, J. Benson, a girl and boy who died in childhood, and Adam Clark, the faithful historian of the pioneers of Jefferson county. John Johnson, "Uncle Jacky," as we knew him in our boyhood days, was born in Virginia, in 1783 -- born in poverty and left an orphan. By the help of a slave he learned the alphabet...By the light of pine knots he studied the Bible at night, after hard days' work, and on Sunday, at some cabin on the hillside, he would proclaim the Gospel with a pathos and power that always carried the hearts of his rustic hearers by storm. He had a voice of unusual power and could be heard two miles away. His discourses were brief, but always plain, practical, and convincing. Yet with all his rugged vigor, his heart was as tender as a woman's, with a sympathy that extended even to the insect at his feet. He was to all intents and purposes a pioneer preacher of the Cartwright order, except that he had none of the great preacher's belligerency. He traveled the country from Ohio to Natchez, in Mississippi, and preached at every opportunity. His allotted work led him through much uninhabited country, among Indians, wild animals and equally wild men, but always trusting in he Lord. He was certainly a great preacher and a very remarkable man. Over sixty years ago we heard him preach from the text, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" and we have never forgotten the text, the sermon, nor the man. His widow died here in 1895, and his sons are all gone, except Washington S. The descendants of J. Fletcher and G. Wesley are still in our midst, and rank among our very best people. His death was peaceful and triumphant. Many of his descendants are valued citizens of Mount Vernon. [Walls History of Jefferson County, 1909]


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