This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACE/668.1 Message Board Post: James , William Marion Johnson's wife is in dispute. I have her as Mary Poppy Stepp a sister to William (Bill) Stepp. Ite story goes that during the Cicil War, she got word to Bill if something happened to her , he was to take Cooney and raise him. Another researcher has William Marion being married to a Martha and having three girls. All I can go from is family ties