TO: (??- [email protected]) I have Mildred MOORMAN as first wife and mother of two children, and Penelope Anthony as second wife and mother of the remaining children including James A. Johnson, Jr. Although I have Mildred PATE as wife of James, Jr, I have no further information on her.......Richard ======================================================= >Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:15:31 -0500 >From: "Who, Me?" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >Subject: Johnston Family >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi! >I am a descendant of "Gov" James Johnson Sr of Leesburg, Highland County, >Ohio. >I have a few questions I would like to throw out there to clear things up. >First - I have always thought that most of his children were from his >marriage to Mildred Moorman but came across this that said Penelope Anthony >was the mother - any comments???? > >Information from: History of Ross & Highland Counties, Ohio, with >illustrations and biographical sketches. / Williams Bros. publishers; W.W. >Williams, Printer, Cleveland, O., 1880. (Reprint: Evansville, >IN:Unigraphic, Inc., 1978) >p. 402, Fairfield Twp., Highland Co.: > "'Governor' James Johnson came in 1812, from Botetourt (now Bedford) >county, Virginia., and bought two to three hundred acres around the site of >Leesburgh. By his first wife, who was a Mooreman, he had two children, >neither of whom, however, were settlers in Fairfield. By his second wife, >Penelope Ashley, he reared a large family, - John, Elizabeth, Sarah, >Joseph, James, Jesse, Mary, Judith, Penelope (Burgess), Anthony, Agnes, and >Rachel (Lupton). Jesse Johnson, who married Mary Burgess, was the father of >Elias Johnson, of Leesburgh, Michal (Milner), Edna (Cox), and Mary (Grice), >all of Fairfield township. Of "Governor" we shall have more to say in >another department of this chapter." > >This is kind of important as I am a descendant of James A Johnson Jr b. May >1775 and I would like to be clear on who his mother was. > >ALSO!!!! >My James A Johnson Jr married a Mildred PATE who died in Highland County? >in Oct of 1860 anyone have any info on her? > >Thanks so much!!!!! > >[email protected]