Posted on: Johnston Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/joh/Johnston/297 Surname: Branum, Biser, Hornback, Johnston ------------------------- I am also trying to tie my Johnston family in somewhere. My twice great grandfather was William R. Johnston, who was born in Ireland around 1797. I have no idea when he emigrated or where he may have lived before marrying my twice great grandmother, Kissiah Hornback in Platte City, Missouri in 1853. He is not in the Platte or Clay County census for 1850. The family then appears in the 1860 census for what is now Cherokee County, Kansas, and the 1870 census in Bates County, Missouri. I am awaiting his Civil War pension records from Washington and hope those shed some light on his background. Do you have a William of the right age that doesn't connect anywhere?