This is from Sue Howard I just resent it so the name she was looking for is in the subject line so no one will miss it. Ann -----Original Message----- From: suehoward [mailto:suehoward@prodigy.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:04 AM Well, here's something for you. I have YET to find out what happened to my great grandfather, Joseph Abner Johnson (also known as Joab Johnson). He and wife, Mary Undine (Brown) Johnson were on the 1860 Neshoba County census with one child - my grandfather, John R. Johnson, born in 1859. They had another child in about 1861 - my great uncle, James H. Johnson. Within a few years, Mary had remarried to a widower - Judge Samuel McNeil. He was much, much older than she, probably about 40 years older. He had a grown son - Greenberry McNeil and a teenaged daughter. I'm pretty sure they were neighbors. Now, the only thing I can think of is that Joseph joined up with the Confederacy and went off to war, and was probably killed in the war. If he had died of natural causes, I would think I'd be able to find where he was buried, but so far, I haven't found his burial site. I believe that Mary married Judge McNeil because she was probably in dire straits, having to support two toddlers, and had no means of support. I don't know this, I'm just surmising, of course. If I could just find out the other units that were raised in Neshoba Co. other than the 40th (also known as the Neshoba Tigers or Mississippi Tigers) because I checked that one out, received the papers from MS Archives, and have decided that he was NOT my g grandfather. Or, if I could find out what other units men from Neshoba Co. might have joined up with. I know for a fact that there was more than one J. A. Johnson in Neshoba Co. The one that I got the papers for was a Joseph A. Johnson, born in 1844, and on the 1860 census, and he was living with a Norrel family in the Coffedeliah section. My great grandfather was born about 1837 in Alabama and had come from Pontotoc Co. around 1858/59. He and Mary married in Pontotoc Co. in July of 1858. I have a copy of their wedding license. Can anyone give me any suggestions. Thanks a lot. Sue (Johnson) Howard