Emma, I'm not sure if we've corresponded before. Charles Leroy Johnson, the son of Abner Johnson Jr. and second wife Mary Mobley, was born c. 1822-25 in Maury Co., TN (although possibly northern Giles) and married Nancy R. (possibly Rebecca) McCafferty on Dec. 22, 1849 in Maury. (This date may come from the license; the ceremony may have occurred on Christmas Eve or Day, which was quite common then.) Nancy was the daughter of James Green and Mary (LNU) McCafferty of Maury. I have not traced James Green's family, although Guy McConnell of Springfield has. I believe he dates back to Cormack McCafferty of VA and SC. The name Green was passed down in the McConnell family through James H. (Holland) McConnell and Mary McCafferty (sister of Nancy R.) to John Green McConnell, Guy's ancestor. James Green died in Maury Co. before 1850, but widow Mary moved with most of her children to Greene Co., MO (later Christian) in October 1852 or in 1854. Charles Leroy and Nancy apparently came in the October 1852 wagon train because their second son William, 1853, was born in Missouri. (He later died and another son was named William.) Abner Johnson Jr. was born April 6, 1792, likely near Brown Station, south of Nashville in Davidson Co., TN. His family later moved c. 1810 south of Columbia, TN to the area around Bigbyville and Southport in Maury Co., just north of the Giles Co. line. His family had come to the Nashville area by 1792 -- likely 1788 -- from Rockingham Co., NC. They either followed or migrated with his uncle and aunt, John and Ursula Johnson Pillow; John was killed by Indians in 1791. Abner Jr. appears to have moved with his brother Peter to Hardeman/Stewart Cos., TN after the War of 1812. By 1814, he married Lucy LNU and had two daughters, Nancy B. (Brackett) Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson (June 1817). Lucy died, and Abner remarried (quite naturally with two infant daughters) to Mary Mobley, daughter of Ezekiel Mobley of Maury Co., on 12 NOV 1817 in Maury. The couple later lived in Giles Co. and perhaps Lawrence, but migrated in 1852 or 1854 to Porter Township, Greene/Christian Cos. with several members of Abner's enormous extended family (Johnsons, Edwardses, McCaffertys, Kenamores, Gooches, Whites, etc.) after his father died. Abner Jr. and a son won a contract to rebuild the Christian Co. courthouse after an arsonist torched the structure and its records in the summer of 1865. I cannot find him or his wife after 1870. They have no stones in McConnell or Payne cemeteries where many relatives are buried. Charles is listed as a mechanic in the 1860 census (a farmer later), and I am unsure whether he or a brother who died before 1870, leaving a widow, was the son who assisted on the courthouse. Besides Charles Leroy, Abner Jr.'s children included Narcissa Evaline Johnson, who married William Carroll Edwards (the brother of my ancestor, the Rev. James Wright Edwards) as his second wife in Maury Co. This family was quite prominent in the early history of Porter Township and Christian Co. Abner Jr. was the son of Abner Johnson Sr. (1758-Oct. 22, 1850) and Nancy Brackett and the grandson of Gideon Johnson and Nancy Ursula Allen. Abner Sr. was born in Amelia Co., VA and moved while a toddler to the part of Guilford/Rowan Cos., NC that became Rockingham Co. He served at least three stints in the Revolution, including time as a personal bodyguard to the NC governor. I have a manuscript I wrote several years ago on Abner and Nancy Brackett Johnson, Gideon and Nancy Ursula Allen Johnson and Benjamin and Margery Massie Johnson. The Johnson descendants are involved in a DNA project that is reported on Linda K. Starr's Web site. I apparently have not loaded the manuscript onto this computer, and I hope I can extract it from the retired machine. If you want, I can try to retrieve it. You obviously have information about what became of Charles Leroy and Nancy McCafferty Johnson. I would appreciate anything you can provide. I lost track of them, and finding a Charles Johnson is no easy task. Randy McConnell Jefferson City, MO (also a descendant of Abner Sr. and Nancy Brackett Johnson through their daughter Mary Johnson Kenamore, who died in Christian Co. in 1874.)