Hello All... Am seeking any information I can find on a Johnson/Whatley connection in Suwanne and Lafayette County area. Grover Chapman Johnson, Sr. (b 11 Oct 1893 supposedly in Blackshear, Pierce County, GA, d 30 May 1950 in Jacksonville, Duval County, FL) married Annie Zell Whatley (b 19 Nov 1892 in Lafayette County, d 9 Jun 1967 in Miami, Dade County, FL) on 7 Nov 1917 in Lafayette County. This marriage is in the Lafayette County marriage books. Her parents were William Newman Whatley (b. 10 Sep 1852 in Baldwin, AL) and Temperance Ann Parker (b. 17 Feb 1864 in Live oak, FL). These are my grandparents, and since my father's death earlier this year there is no one left to supply any family history on his father's side so I am really having to dig. The family bible and all its information was lost sometime around 1979 when their first son Grover Chapman Johnson, Jr. died in Daytona Beach, FL and his property was disposed of by a landlady to whom he owed rent. Regretfully, my father (Bernard Alexander Johnson) was not at all interested in the family history and what little he related over the years was contradictory and incomplete. Grover's (Sr.) parents (we believe) were a John Quincy Johnson (b. aft. 1860 possibly in Pierce County, GA) and Mellie Chancey (b. aft. 1862 in Pierce County, GA). Her name could have been Millie Chancey or any combination of the names. Exactly when and where these people were born, where they died and when they died are all unknown as is their final resting place. There is record in the Chancey line of a Millie Chancey in Pierce County, GA at the right time, but no mention can be found of her spouse, or her date or place of death and/or burial. We believe that John and Mellie traveled to North Florida with their son sometime before 1900 and may have followed him and his wife to the Jacksonville area where they could be buried. However, since we can find no mention of them in burial/cemetary records in Duval County, it makes us think they also could have stayed in Live Oak and may be buried somewhere in the area. We believe Grover might have been one of several children, but their names and dates of birth are unknown, except for one... Albert who was suppsedly involved in some area of "the law". Interestingly enough, there was a Suwannee County Judge named Albert Clay Johnson (b. 4 Nov 1897, d. 24 Nov 1938). I have a resolution in memory of him from the USGenWeb Archives signed by the remaining judges in Suwannee County at the time. Except for his survivors, there is no mention of any other family members. In researching Albert Clay Johnson I find reference to his mother Mellie (or Mille) Green, and that his family came out of Alabama. Interesting... Whether or not he is any relation is unknown. In years past my father referred to aunts and uncles who lived and died in the Live Oak area and in Jacksonville. He even told a story when I was much younger of attending a funeral of a family member who died in Live Oak. Without the family bible and its information, I can only rely on the ramblings of my father who in his declining years in the last 20 years refused to even discuss his family. Much of what he said about the family was contradictory to what had been said in previous years, and much of what we believed as the truth of his own life has now been found to be so much smoke and so many mirrors. There was a lady named Anderson at the Genealogy Society in Live Oak several years ago when my wife and I started this quest to find our families and went to Live Oak to find the Whatleys... She was a walking talking encyclopedia of knowledge on the Whatley clan from the area. Took us to all the cemetaries, showed us where some of them lived, told us all the stories, and she knew them all... Regretfully she didn't know anything of the Johnson family I seek, but she sure knew the Wahtleys. Hopefully she is well and still involved. We would like to get up to see her again now that we are both retired. Any assistance in finding my Johnsons would be appreciated. B. Craig Johnson (aka: "Dusty Miller") Country Time Dance Lines 2425 Center Road Deltona, FL 32738 (386)789-3797 www.country-time.com djdusty@country-time.com