In the 1850 Madison County Missouri census my gggp Noble Johnson said he was born in NC. Ten years later he was only 8 years older and born in SC. Checking the 1790 listing of heads of family I find one of two David Johnsons (Noble's father) in the Salisbury district of Stokes County, showing one young son, 4 free white females. Noble was born in 1796, and in 1823 when David died in Cape Girardeau County MO, the family was Margaret, David's wife, Constant, Ransom, Sarah, Jonathan, Davis, Noble, William, and Willey Emmy. Well, actually the estate papers said Willey Emmy had married a Baker and had died so her share went to her children. Church papers indicate that David Johnson probably joined the Bethel Baptist church at Jackson MO about 1812. There is a David Johnson in the Christian County KY census of 1810 with the right count of children. If Constant was a girl, this 1 1 4 0 0 Stokes entry could match, or if one of the females was a mother or mother-in-law. Its likely Jonathan, Ransom, and Davis were older than Noble because Jonathan died in 1830, Ransom before 1847, and Davis before 1857. I don't have birth dates for them. My question is: does this David Johnson family show in the 1800 census, and the 1810 census or later? Does anyone know of this David Johnson family and their movements? Any deed activity hinting at them moving away from Stokes County? Gerald