This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson, Woodard, Ballard, Miller, Bruno Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WEB.2ACI/470 Message Board Post: Hi Im searching for any help with JOHNSON family. I was told that my JOHNSON family came from around Cheneyville, and that was on my great grandpaws death certificate but found out today that they actually came from Pitkin, Louisiana and moved to Oakdale, Louisiana. My greatgrandpaw is Johnnie (J. L.) Lawrence JOHNSON b. 1893 in Louisiana d. 1981 in Lake Charles, La. He is buried in Greenwood Memorial Cemetery, Pineville, La. He married Gertrude HARROTT daughter of Rose and George HARROTT. On death certificate shows Johnnies father to be Emile JOHNSON was told that a tree landed on him and killed him when Johnnie was real little. On my great grandpaw MILLER death certificate it shows a or looks like C. Z. JOHNSON signed the bottom in Pineville, La. 10/27/1940. Johnnie mother is Ellen WOODARD b. 1868 d. 1933 buried in Oakdale, Cemetery. After the death of Johnnies dad Ellen remarried to Felix Emanuel BALLARD b. 1877 and d. 1936 burried in Oakdale cemetery. Emile and Ellen had! Johnnie, and had Wesley JOHNSON born about 1895. Ellen and Felix had Clarence BALLARD b. abt 1902 in La. and Hillamone BALLARD b. abt 1905, Jimmy BALLARD b. abt 1908-1909. Johnnie had a daughter by ? name Annie JOHNSON b. 1915 d. 1976 buried at Consolata Cemetery, Lake Charles, La. she married Frank BRUNO,b. 1902 d. 1989 also buried at Consolata Cemetery Johnnie had a daughter with Gertrude her name was Helen Edith JOHNSON, she married Winston Ervin MILLER. I haven't been able to find a census with his father on it. But I was given these census on the family. Thirteenth Census of the United States 1910 Population Calcasieu Parish. 488 495 BALLARD Felix head M W 34 M1 9 La. Ms. Ms. English Labor Sawmill BALLARD Ellen wife F W 36 M2 9 5 5 La. FL. FL. English JOHNSON Johnnie stepson M W 17 s La. La. La. English JOHNSON Wesley stepson M W 15 s La. La. La. English BALLARD Clarence son M W 8 s La. La. La. BALLARD Almon son M W 5 s La. La. La. BALLARD Jimmy son M W 1/12s La. La. La. Fourteenth Census for the United States 1920 Population Allen Louisiana Ward 5. 208 167 185 BALLARD Felix head 1 R M W 39 M La. Ms. Ms. Labor Sawmill w 290 BALLARD Ellen wife F W 49 M La. U.S.A. FL. JOHNSON Wesley stepson M W 25 s La. La. La. Labor ? W 148 BALLARD Clarence son M W 18 s La. La. La. Labor Plows Mill W 290 BALLARD Hiltman son M W 14 s La. La. La. JOHNSON Annie Granddaughter F W 4 1/12 La. La. La. Obit for Johnnie Lawrence Johnson Lake Charles-Johnnie Lawrence Johnson, 87, of Lake Charles died at 1:42 a.m. Sunday in Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. He was a native of Cheneyville and a retired machinist with the Olin Corporation. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Habibi Temple Lodge. He was also a past patron of the Justice Chapter No. 238, Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include his wife, Gertrude Johnson of Lake Charles; one daughter Helen Miller of Pineville; one brother C. D. Ballard of Lake Charles; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Hixson Bros., Pineville, with the Rev. Glen Artt officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park, Pineville. Friends may call at the funeral home today. My grandmother had a phone call from relatives that lives in Baton Rouge, hes 92 years old, when I talked with her she was having a hard time remembering. she has had a stroke so its hard for her at times. She was also saying that one of the family members a long time back moved to Oaklahoma she thinks. Thank you for your time and help with any family information. Belinda doucet_belinda@yahoo.com or doucet_belinda@hotmail.com