My g-grandfather's second wife was Minnie Francis Johnston, of Evergreen Mills. She was the daughter of James Johnston and Mariah (I believe) Francis. I do not know much about this family. Did they come from Virginia? Patti ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489
Patti, A time frame and the location of Evergreen Mills would help determine if your family came from VA. Tosca ----- Original Message ----- From: <PattiB9460@aol.com> To: <valoudou@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU] Francis > My g-grandfather's second wife was Minnie Francis Johnston, of Evergreen > Mills. She was the daughter of James Johnston and Mariah (I believe) > Francis. > I do not know much about this family. Did they come from Virginia? > Patti > > > ************** > Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The First Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us > something about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VALOUDOU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
This is part of what I sent directly to Patti concerning Evergreen Mills. Note that the James W. Johnston mentioned below is one of the persons she is seeking information about. Minnie Francis Johnston was b. 8 July 1872 and d. 12 Feb 1941. The following is from Volume 2 of the series "Loudoun Discovered" by Eugene Scheel: .... for on December 2, 1855, when Henry and Elizabeth Ball sold the 102-acre "Ball's Mill" property, its cost to Thomas L. Ellzey was $8,000. Thomas Ellzey persevered as miller until after the war, selling out to James and Martha Mageath, who on January 18, 1875, sold the 14-acre Ball's Mill property to James W. Johnston for $6,000. Determined to get things going again, Mr. Johnston persuaded President Ulysses S. Grant to approve a post office at the mill and to appoint Mr. Johnston as first postmaster. Not content with the name of Ball's Mill, but not so brash as to use his own name, he took the suggestion of neighbor Billy Mitchell, who thought the varied green foliage in the spring so pretty: Why not "Evergreen"? On July 12, 1875, the Evergreen Mills Post Office opened, housed in a combination frame store and dwelling that Mr. Johnston had built across the road from the mill. As the Old Carolina Road had seen its through-traffic taken over by the Aldie Pike (Route 15) to the west, few felt the need for a bridge at the mill. However, upon Mr. Johnston's prodding, on July 25, 1892, the board of supervisors "Resolved that the sum of $6,500 be appropriated to build a Bridge over Goose Creek at Evergreen Mill." The iron-truss bridge was taken down in 1973. .... James Johnston stayed on as miller until 1895 and as postmaster and storekeeper until his death in 1897. After three successors in two years, John Orr Daniel took over the three jobs in 1899, buying the 14-acre mill property on November 15. For the first time in a deed, the property was called "Evergreen Mill." Old names die hard in Virginia. The road was known as Ball's Mill Road through the first decade of the 20th century. Pat Duncan GenNutLdn@msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <PattiB9460@aol.com> To: <valoudou@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [VALOUDOU] Francis > My g-grandfather's second wife was Minnie Francis Johnston, of Evergreen > Mills. She was the daughter of James Johnston and Mariah (I believe) > Francis. > I do not know much about this family. Did they come from Virginia? > Patti Additional information Patti provided privately: Dr. James Tasker Jones, b. 15 July 1862 and d. 6 June 1946 was her husband. Minnie Francis Johnston was b. 8 July 1872 and d. 12 Feb 1941. Her middle name is Francis, but often misspelled "Frances." Her mother was a Francis, and Minnie's middle name was for this family. That's about all I know about the Francis family, except that there were a couple of brothers, a sister Ethel, and another one named Mary; and we heard that her father was once the miller at Evergreen Mills. They were active in some of the Methodist Camp Meetings of their day and I have a wonderful OLD photo of them with a lot of people in one of these meetings. That's about all I know of her ancestry. >