Thank you so much for this information. I really appreciate your taking the time to try and help me. This seems like a likely family for my Elizabeth Ashby! Sue Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: "deb & jim" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Johnson and Ashby > > May be a longshot, but in Ancestry.com there is a list of N.C. Will > Abstracts, 1760-1800; shows in 1776 ASHBY, SOLOMON, Elizabeth (wife), Abel > and Solomon and 1787 ASHBY, ELIZABETH, Abel, Solomon and Elizabeth > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carolyn Sue Howard" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:44 AM > Subject: [ALJEFFER] Johnson and Ashby > > >> I, too, have enjoyed reading all the e-mails about Birmingham, even >> though >> I >> have never lived there, and have only passed through there from time to >> time. I did, however, have ancestors who lived in Jefferson County for a >> number of years, and this seems like a good time to bring them up again >> with >> all the activity on this list. >> >> My 3rd great grandfather was Duncan Johnson. I don't know where or when >> he >> was born (probably in about 1775-1780), but he died in Jefferson Co. in >> 1823. His will was posted on the Johnson Gen Forum web site by an Aliese >> Johnson. Her husband descended from him also. I also found a Duncan >> Johnson in Blount Co. (on the Blount Co. web site) in 1818 as a Justice >> of >> the Peace, and I'm thinking that he was probably the same Duncan Johnson. >> In Duncan's will, he mentions his son, Randolph Johnson, who was my 2nd >> great grandfather, and Elizabeth Ashby was one of the witnesses (her name >> on >> the will was spelled "Ashbay"). A few months later, in July of 1823, >> Randolph and Elizabeth married. Randolph was born in 1800 in Tennessee, >> and >> Elizabeth was born about 1799/1800 in North Carolina. I don't know where >> my >> Johnson's came from in Tennessee, and I don't know where Elizabeth came >> from >> in North Carolina, nor do I know who her parents or siblings were. I >> can't >> imagine that she travelled all the way to Jefferson Co. by herself or >> why, >> so I'm thinking that maybe they met in Tennessee and then travelled down >> there. What would be a likely place in Tennessee to have come from back >> in >> those days? Also, what kind of record would show where they had come >> from? >> Randolph and Elizabeth evidently lived in the Hueytown area as I have >> found >> them listed in the Mud Creek Baptist Church records on the Hueytown web >> site, active from the 1830's through about 1844. After that, they moved >> to >> Pontotoc Co., Mississippi. Their children were: Susan or Susanna, >> Benjamin, John H., my great grandfather, Joseph Abner Johnson (Joab), and >> William M. Johnson. Thanks for any help you can give me. >> >> Sue (Johnson) Howard P.S. Does anybody know anything about >> Aliese >> Johnson who posted to the Johnson Gen Forum site? Can't seem to get a >> response from her. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message