A couple quick comments - see SRJ: > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Dupree > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Early Johnson's of Hamilton Co., Illinois > > > Tom Wilson: > > In response to your query about Zopher Johnson's. > > Zopher Alexander Johnson was b. 1845 and died in > 1887. SRJ: 23 Aug 1845 (Greene Co., TN - right?) 04 Sep 1887 HCI (per stone at Macedonia Cem.) > He was the > son of Christopher Cooper Johnson(b. 1821 Greene Co., TN; d. > 27 Nov. 1862, > Memphis, Tn). and (K)(C) atherine Kerbaugh. I do not have > any record of > Zopher Alexander marrying a Carney. But in Harrelson's "Hamilton Co. > Marriages," p. 134 he has Zopher marrying Sarah Ann Boster 23 > Feb. 1864 by > minister Hosea Vise. SRJ: Sarah Ann BOSTER (14 Feb 1844 HCI - 17 Jun 1914 nr Macedonia, HCI) d/o Andrew Jackson BOSTER and Rebecca CLARK A.J. s/o John BOSTER and Mary NIBERT (- I descend from John's brother, Daniel BOSTER...) Rebecca d/o William H CLARK and ? A.J.'s 2nd wife, Katherine SCRIVNER SHIRLEY -> has to be connected with Moses SCRIVNER / Nancy HENLEY somehow.. > > The children of Zopher Alexander and Sarah Ann Boster > were: Clarence > Edger Johnson, b. 2 May 1875; Riley Alexander Johnson, b. > July 1874; Rev. > Albert Johnson, b. 24 April 1877; and Elmer Elsworth Johnson, > b. 6 May 1882. SRJ: Riley & Lucinda had 2 children, Clarence & Dora had 7 ch., Albert & Vine had 7, Elmer & Joyce only had Glen - right? (as far as I know..) I don't have a Zopher mar. to a CARNEY/KEARNEY either... hummm... Tom - yours and my lines criss-cross upteen times as we have discussed in the past...