Mapmaker3@aol.com wrote: > > Virginia, Michael, and others, > Thank you for all the information. It helps considerably. It appears we > will have to continue to wonder about who the Edward Johnson and the James > Johnson Sr. and Jr. form the 1790 census are to Noble and his two sons, James > and Noble. Edward reappears in the 1800 census, too, as an older man like > Noble. Also in that 1800 census of Buncombe Co. are the families of Nathaniel > and Jacob Johnson Sr. also headed by older men. Does anybody know who these > Johnsons are? They all lived near each other. Also, please tell me more about > the Saluda Johnsons. Oh, if only I knew more to tell about the Saluda Johnsons! I'll be disowned for putting this out on a list, but here goes anyway. You see, something terrible happened with that Johnson family. And no one will tell me what! My grandmother was Julia Anna Johnson, born 1882 at Saluda. Sometime just after she was born, her mother, Mary, divorced James (Jim) Johnson. She left and moved to Asheville. She is said to have never spoken his name again. I do know that he went to prison for something -- got that while eavesdropping! I'm dead cetain that some names were changed to hide whatever it is they all wanted hidden. My elderly father knew but wouldn't tell me. He passed away in January without saying a word. And his sister is locked tight as a vault on the subject as well. Whatever it was it must've been a doozy! And whatever they did to hide it must've worked, along with keeping identies confused. Such intrigue! My father did tell me just before he died that his grandfather James Johnson was not originally from Saluda but from western Henderson County, between Brevard and Hendersonville. I asked if that might be the Shaw's Creek area and he said "somewhere in those parts". But when I presented this to Virginia in hopes that this could be her Shaw's Creek Johnsons, she had enough knoweldge to say "no". Something is odd about it all, but there's never been enough time to pursue all of these Johnsons. Michael Allison Michael Allison