Dear Johnston-Thomas rooters Would any have the time to view this family and forward any comments? We are hunting for any data on the family lineage. Descendants of Mary Elizabeth Thomas Generation No. 1 1. MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS (BENJAMIN1) was born September 25, 1802 in Kentucky, and died April 1882 in Neosho Co., Ks. She married ABSOLOM HILL JOHNSTON June 27, 1828 in Holy Name Of Mary Church, Calvary, Ky. He was born December 04, 1802 in Virginia, and died September 1881 in Mission Township, Neosho Co., Ks. Notes for ABSOLOM HILL JOHNSTON: Parents Could of been William Johnston II, married Ann Flint, per Norma Roberts nrobert@apexcorp.com Lived for many years in Grayson Co., Ky Res of St. Paul 1870 `````````````````````````````````````````````````` 1850 Grayson County, Ky Census dwelling #106 Josiah V Johnson age 34 M farmer $200 b. Ky. Mary J age 40 F b. Ky. Mary M age 11 F b. Ky. Nancy E age 10 F b. Ky. Sarah J age 8 F b. Ky. Margaret E age 7 F b. Ky. Tamira age 5 F b. Ky. Mandana age 3 F b. Ky. Martha A age 1/12 F b. Ky. 459/459 Johnson, Josiah J. 45 Farmer Mary J. 35 Sarah J. 18 Margaret E. 17 Zamera 14 Mandona 12 Martha 10 Howard, Nancy 20 Serving John 18 Farm Laborer dwelling #127 James Johnson age 27 M farmer b. Ky. Nancy age 27 F b. Ky. Sarah E age 1/12F b. Ky. dwelling #137 John Johnson age 38 M farmer b. Ky. Kitty A age 15 F b. Ky. James J age 13 M b. Ky. Margaret J age 9 F b. Ky. Martha J age 6 F b. Ky. dwelling #379 Isaac Johnson age 67 M farmer b. Ky. Sally age 63 F b. Ky. John M age 24 M farmer b. Ky. Jeremiah age 22 M farmer b. Ky. dwelling #455 Abselom H Johnson age 48 M farmer $800 b. Va. Elizabeth age 48 F b. Ky. William age 21 M farmer b. Ky. Bennet age 19 M farmer b. Ky. George age 16 M farmer b. Ky. Robert age 14 M b. Ky. Pius age 13 M b. Ky. James age 8 M b. Ky. Susan age 5 F b. Ky. John age 2 M b. Ky. dwelling #513 James Johnson age 35 M farmer $200 b. Ky. Matilda age 34 F b. Ky. Benjamin H age 13 M b. Ky. Thomas W age 11 M b. Ky. Christopher age 8 M b. Ky. James W age 6 M b. Ky. Marcilla age 3 F b. Ky. Alezander age 1 M b. Ky. dwelling #520 Amy Johnson age 54 F b. Ky. John age 23 M farmer $25 b. Ky. Elizabeth A age 21 F b. Ky. dwelling #673 Archibald J Johnson age 26 M farmer b. Ky. Mary age 23 F b. Ky. dwelling #674 Archibald T Johnson age 27 M farmer b. Ky. Mary age 22 F b. Ky. Sarah age 4 F b. Ky. Isaac age 1 M b. Ky. Cary Raymer age 18 M farmer b. Ky. dwelling #726 William Johnson age 29 M farmer $150 b. Ky. Margaret age 29 F b. NC. Hasten age 11 M b. Ky. Mary A age 9 F b. Ky. Sarah F age 7 F b. Ky. Martha J age 5 F b. Ky. Mrgaret age 3 F b. Ky. Teresa age 1 F b. Ky. dwelling #1033 Joseph E Johnson age 28 M farmer $25 b. Ky. Elizabeth age 25 F b. Ky. Henrietta age 4 F b. Ky. Hannah age 1 F b. Ky. Children of MARY THOMAS and ABSOLOM JOHNSTON are: i. WILLIAM3 JOHNSTON, b. 1829, KY. 2. ii. ANN ELIZABETH JOHNSTON, b. 1830. iii. BENNET JOHNSTON, b. 1831, KY; m. M. C. LEE, 1871, Neosho County, Ks; b. 1849. iv. GEORGE A. JOHNSTON, b. 1832, Kentucky; d. October 09, 1916, St. Paul, Ks; m. SUSAN PIERCE, April 06, 1891, Neosho County, Ks; b. 1845. 3. v. ROBERT ABELL JOHNSTON, b. 1836, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870, 1880. vi. PIUS JOHNSTON, b. 1837, KY. vii. JAMES M. JOHNSTON, b. 1842, Kentucky; d. August 02, 1906, St Paul, Ks. viii. SUSAN E. JOHNSTON, b. 1845, Kentucky; d. February 23, 1922, St. Paul, Ks. 4. ix. JOHN A. JOHNSTON, b. October 22, 1847, Grayson Co., Ky; d. June 1923, Neosho Co., Ks. x. BENNET A. JOHNSTON, b. 1856, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. xi. JAMES A. JOHNSTON, b. 1864. xii. CLARISA JOHNSTON, b. 1866, ILL; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. Generation No. 2 2. ANN ELIZABETH3 JOHNSTON (MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born 1830. She married SAMUEL PIERCE. He was born 1827, and died in res St Paul, Ks 1870. Notes for SAMUEL PIERCE: [99_Jarboe.FTW] Had 12 chlidren Children of ANN JOHNSTON and SAMUEL PIERCE are: i. SARAH J.4 PIERCE, b. 1848, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870; m. W. E. FISHER, May 01, 1868, Neosho County, Ks; b. 1846. ii. ELIZABETH PIERCE, b. 1850, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. iii. SUSAN A. PIERCE, b. 1855, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870; m. CHARLES A. CHAMBERLAIN, February 21, 1878, Neosho County, Ks; b. 1856. iv. MARY PIERCE, b. 1860, ILL; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. v. MARGARET PIERCE, b. 1860, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. vi. JOHN A. PIERCE, b. Bet. 1860 - 1862, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870; m. JENNIE LAKE, September 20, 1881, Neosho County, Ks; b. 1862. vii. MARKHAM PIERCE, b. 1864, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. viii. SARA PIERCE, b. 1866, Missouri; d. res St Paul, Ks 1870. 3. ROBERT ABELL3 JOHNSTON (MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born 1836 in Kentucky, and died in res St Paul, Ks 1870, 1880. He married MARY [JOHNSTON]. She was born Abt. 1840 in Kentucky. Children of ROBERT JOHNSTON and MARY [JOHNSTON] are: i. WILLIAM4 JOHNSTON, b. 1864, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1880. ii. AUGUSTINE JOHNSTON, b. 1875, Kentucky. iii. ROBERT JOHNSTON, JR., b. 1877, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1880. iv. CHILD JOHNSTON, b. 1879, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1880. 4. JOHN A.3 JOHNSTON (MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born October 22, 1847 in Grayson Co., Ky, and died June 1923 in Neosho Co., Ks. He married TERESA E. SPEAKE August 08, 1876 in Neosho County, Ks, daughter of WILLIAM SPEAKE and MARY EADES. She was born January 01, 1852 in Grayson Co., Ky, and died in res St. Paul, Ks 1870. Notes for JOHN A. JOHNSTON: [99_Jarboe.FTW] Excerpts from the "St. Paul Annals" published in 1942 Journal, June 21, 1923 John A. Johnston, the well-known stock farmer near South Mond, died Monday. Age 75 years. Bio in "History of Neosho and Wilson Counties" published in 1902 JOHN A. JOHNSTON--One of the early settlers of Lincoln township, Neosho county, was he whose name heads this article. He was a young man of twenty years when he accompanied his parents hither from Grayson county, Kentucky, where he was born on October 22, 1847. He is one of a family of six sons and three daughters, children of Absolom and Mary E. (Thomas) Johnston. The father was born in Virginia in 1800 and came, as a child, into Kentucky where he was reared and married, and resided till his departure for Kansas in 1867. Absolom Johnston was one of the splendid characters of Neosho county. He was gentle, kind and obliging and died in September, 1881, without having an enemy in the county. He and his matronly wife who died in April, 1882, reared a family of nine children, our subject being the youngest of the group. John A. Johnston preempted a claim in Neosho county and secured his patent from the government. He prospered at farming and in 1880 engaged in the shipping of stock, which business has grown from the most modest handing of the marketable stock over a wide extent of territory. The little village of South Mound is his shipping point and much of the prominence of the place results from the business which he brings to it. Since 1875 he has resided one and one-half miles north of town where he accumulated an estate of a section and one-half of land. Two quarter sections of this he has set off to two children, leaving him with a square farm of six hundred and forty acres, one of the valuable tracts of Lincoln township. August 8, 1876, Mr. Johnston married Teresa Speake, a daughter of William and Mary (Eads) Speake and the eighth birth of their eleven children. She was born in Grayson county, Kentucky, January 1, 1852, and six years later her mother died. The family afterward moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, then to Bates county, Missouri, and, in 1867, to Neosho county, Kansas. Here Mr. Speake was prominent as a farmer and died in 1873. Of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston's family of seven children, six survive, as follows. Fred, Charles Roy, Paul Bertram, Frances A., Stella, and John and Omer. Mr. Johnston possesses in a great measure, the popular personal traits of his distinquished father. He is bound to the world by ties of human sympathy and the measure of it is felt in the kind acts and worthy deeds emanating from his brain. He came to the county poor and the accumulations of thirty-five years have marked him as one of the safe and successful business men of Neosho county. Children of JOHN JOHNSTON and TERESA SPEAKE are: i. BERTRAM4 JOHNSTON. 5. ii. CHARLES JOHNSTON, b. 1865, Kentucky; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. iii. FRANCES A. JOHNSTON. iv. JOHN JOHNSTON. v. OMER JOHNSTON. 6. vi. FRED JOHNSTON, b. 1878, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. 7. vii. ROY JOHNSTON, b. 1880, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. viii. MARY ESTELLA JOHNSTON, b. March 30, 1887, South Mound, Ks; d. December 15, 1951, San Fernando, CA; m. PAUL MADISON 'PERRY' BROWN, October 1907, St. Joseph Church, South Mound, Ks; b. May 17, 1884, Erie, Ks; d. July 24, 1931, San Fernando, CA. Notes for PAUL MADISON 'PERRY' BROWN: [99_Jarboe.FTW] Both buried at St. Frances Cemetery, St. Paul, Ks Generation No. 3 5. CHARLES4 JOHNSTON (JOHN A.3, MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born 1865 in Kentucky, and died in res St Paul, Ks 1920. He married MISSOURI [JOHNSON]. She was born 1875 in Missouri. Children of CHARLES JOHNSTON and MISSOURI [JOHNSON] are: i. WILFORD5 JOHNSTON, b. 1900, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. ii. EMERY JOHNSTON, b. 1902. iii. HERBERT JOHNSTON, b. 1904. iv. MARIE JOHNSTON, b. 1907. v. RUTH JOHNSTON, b. 1909. vi. MELLINA JOHNSTON, b. 1911. vii. PAULINE JOHNSTON, b. 1913. viii. EUGENE JOHNSTON, b. 1916, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. 6. FRED4 JOHNSTON (JOHN A.3, MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born 1878 in Kansas, and died in res St Paul, Ks 1920. He married IDA [JOHNSTON]. She was born 1882 in Kansas. Children of FRED JOHNSTON and IDA [JOHNSTON] are: i. GERALD5 JOHNSTON, b. 1905, Kansas. ii. LAVON JOHNSTON, b. 1913. iii. LEOTA JOHNSTON, b. 1915. 7. ROY4 JOHNSTON (JOHN A.3, MARY ELIZABETH2 THOMAS, BENJAMIN1) was born 1880 in Kansas, and died in res St Paul, Ks 1920. He married ROSE [JOHNSTON]. She was born 1882 in Kansas. Children of ROY JOHNSTON and ROSE [JOHNSTON] are: i. LEONARD5 JOHNSTON, b. 1902. ii. MEGAN JOHNSTON, b. 1904. iii. CLIFFORD JOHNSTON, b. 1906. iv. ARNOLD JOHNSTON, b. 1909, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. v. WAYNE JOHNSTON, b. 1912. vi. HERMAN JOHNSTON, b. 1914. vii. CYRIL JOHNSTON, b. 1916, Kansas; d. res St Paul, Ks 1920. Thanks Randy Dunavan Longview, Texas