Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/214 Surname: JOHNSON, SYOC, DUNCAN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Middle Sandy Valley". Johnson Family Squire Ben Johnson, who lived on the Syoc farm for the fourteen years next preceding his death, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1838. He came to Odaville in 1872, and to Meadowdale ten years later, was a Justice of the Peace, and much respected. Thomas Johnson, a brother, died on Sandy the following September, at the age of eighty. Mrs. William Duncan, nee Johnson, who was born in 1822, and died in 1900, may have been a sister.