The Handbook of Texas Online http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fjo35.html gives the place of birth of James Steptoe Johnston, Jr. as Church Hill (also called the Maryland Settlement) in Jefferson Co. MS, and his mother as Louisa Newman (Covington) Johnston. Ann Brown has a sketch of Church Hill at this url http://www.rootsweb.com/~msjeffe2/churchhill.htm There is an Auburn antebellum home in Natchez. Sue