Posted on: Miami Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Miami/10331 Surname: Johnson ------------------------- Widow Mary Elizabeth (Whitaker) Johnson, after her husband died in 1805, left the Middletown Valley where her husband's family had settled in 1742, and with five (5) of her children, yet not married, and a married daughter, Abigail (Johnson) Johnson, her (Abigail) husband, Thomas Johnson of Joseph, and their son, Alexander Johnson, and went by wagon train to Dayton, OH. Widow Elizabeth (as she was known) purchased a tract of land near Dayton, which she divided into three parcels. She gave one parcel to her son Joseph, one parcel to her son Robert, and settled down on the third parcel with her unmarried daughters, Mary Ann, born 1790, Catharine Ann, born 1793, and Elizabeth, probably born in 1786. Alexander Johnson, born before 1800, later married Amanda Whitcomb in Montgomery County, OH. One of Widow Elizabeth's daughter, name not known, later married, and took up housekeeping in her mother's home. All did not go well, and somehow the daughter and her husband evicted Widow Elizabeth. According to Hawbottom Johnsons (a characterization of the Johnsons who lived on the homestead at Hawbottom) Widow Elizabeth went to the local court and requested that she be returned to the home which she had purchased. Widow Elizabeth lost the case which is supposed to be part of a public document in the county of the purchased site. Despite a year of letter writing no light has been shed on the fact of there being a public document elaborating this situation. Does anyone out there in cyberspace know of the factual existence of such a public document? I am an ancestor hunter seeking to confirm my lineage in the Hawbottom Johnsons, the patriarchs of whom are Thomas & Mary (Rogers) Johnson. Their son, Thomas, their third born, married Mary Elizabeth Whitaker who after 1805 is known as Widow Elizabeth Johnson. Henry Johnson is the first born, John Johnson is the second born, Joseph Johnson is the fourth born, followed by Mary, Robert and Martha. Thirty four descendants are buried in the Johnson Family Cemetery, off Hawbottom Road, in Frederick County, MD.