James Johnson born 1825 in Madison County, Kentucky. Parents born in Virginia, according to 1880 census. James Johnson and all or at least some of his family left Kentucky in 1929, (he was 4 yrs. old), and moved to Hendricks Co., Indiana. By 1880, James was in Linn Co., Iowa, was married to Sylvia Bliss (who thank goodness has a vast record!), and had alot of children, all born in Iowa: Samuel Ward Johnson born 1856 & died in Iowa 1948 Perry Lee Johnson - born 1857 & died in Iowa 1937 Thomas Jefferson Johnson - born 1859 & not known when or where he died or was buried. James Clinton Johnson - born 1860 & died 1946 in Iowa Orren Olin Johnson - born 1862 in Iowa & not known when or where he died. George Everette Johnson - born 1864 in Iowa & not known when or where he died Sarah Ann Johnson - born "before" 1867 and not known when or where she died (she married a Charles Garrett) Mary Elizabeth Johnson - born about 1867 in Iowa and not known when or where she died. She married an Arthur H. McLeod Oliver Ervin Johnson - born1868 in Iowa and not known when or where he died Jay Bliss Johnson - born1869 in Iowa and died abt. 1912 not sure where. He is buried in Iowa He married Cora Bell Miller 1894 in Meckling, Clay County, South Dakota. Charley Edwin Johnson - born 1871 in Iowa. Not known when or where he died. Sylvia Rosalia Johnson - abt. 1877. May have died in Colorado. She married Jeff Morgan and they lived in Colorado. James and Sylvia moved to Guthrie County, Iowa after their children were born, or most of their children were born. Sylvia died in 1893 and is buried in Guthrie County, Iowa, near her son Jay. James died in 1895 in South Dakota, Clay County, when he was there mining, sometimes with some of his sons. He may have been buried there. James & Sylvia's son Perry married Rachel Maris (another well documented lady thank goodness) and they had two sons, Glen, and Guy, who died without issue, and also had Myrtle Anna, Edna Sylvia, Clara Lucille, Ethel Rebecca, and Gladys Ruth. Edna S. married Gene Barker and one of their children was named Lucille. Lucille married Ralph Chism and had me.