Thomas H. Johnson, Jr. and Delilah Wilson

      Thomas H. Johnson, Jr., (July, 1794-3 September, 1872) was the fourth born to the marriage of Thomas H. Johnson, Sr. and Fanny Dickenson Scott Johnson. We believe that Thomas, Jr., was born in Russell County, Virginia. Thomas, Jr., married Delilah Wilson (12 January 1795-24 March 1879) on 16 October 1817, in Carter County, Tennessee. In the marriage records, her name is spelled Delila. We have Delilah's ancestors back to John Wilson, Sr., who was born in England circa 1603. The Wilson's settled in Henrico County, Virginia, (then called Chesterfield County) and remained there through three generations. John Wilson, Sr. (c. 1730) and his wife, Ann Luck, and their twelve children moved west and settled in what was the Johnson County portion of Carter County, Tennessee. Delilah's father was William Wilson (1760-1847) and Delilah was born in Louisa County, Virginia, but moved west with her father to Johnson County.

      Thomas and Delilah settled in the Mountain City, Tennessee area, on the Laurel, where his father and his third wife were living. To this marriage were born ten children, three of whom died young.

      Thomas and Delilah's children are listed below, along with their year of birth and death, the name of their spouse(s), and year of marriage:

(1) William E. Johnson	(1818-1897)	Orphea Ann Wilson (1840)
(2) Thomas Allen Johnson	(1821-1875)	Mary "Polly" Johnson (1843)
(3) Alfred W. Johnson	(1823-1851)	Rebecca Wills (1849)
(4) Barbary Johnson	(c. 1825- ?)	David M. Lindsay (1845)
(5) Rachel J. Johnson	(1829- ?)	Died young
(6) Saraphine Johnson	(1832- ?)	Died young
(7) John Good Johnson, MD	(1834- ?)	Martha Salena Ann Shown (1855)
(8) Mary E. Johnson	(1839-1873)	Marcus A. Keys (1866)
(9) Catherine D. Johnson	(1840- ?)	(1) William M. Dougherty (1861) (2) Benjamin C. Grayson (1867)
(10) Susannah Johnson	(? - ?)

The following covers the families of each of the children who lived to maturity:

      (1) William E. Johnson (1 April 1818-16 January 1897) married Orphea Ann Wilson (1820-1887) on 30 January 1840, in Johnson County, Tennessee. This couple lived in the Taylorsville (Shouns Cross Roads) district. William was considered a wealthy man, relative to other men living in Johnson County. He was listed as a farmer in the 1860 Johnson County census.

      To this marriage were born three children, which are listed below, with their year of birth/death, name of spouse(s), and year of marriage, along with the names and year of birth/death, if known, of their children:

Elbert Franklin Johnson	(1845-1926)	Susan Evelyn Shoun (1867)(7 ch)
William Thomas Johnson	(1868-1913)	Charlotte Olive Baster (1904)(3 ch)
Robert Winfield Johnson	(1869-1948)	Bessie Jane Dugger (1906)(5 ch)
Ida E.V. Johnson	(1871- ?)	James C.B. Pierce (1894)(6 ch)
Isaac Alex Johnson	(1874-1954)	Maud Flaugher (1904)(3 ch)
Hugh Solomon Johnson	(1876-1937)	Beulah A. James (1916)(0 ch)
Elihu Emory Johnson	(1878-1903)	Susan R. Thomas (1902)(1 ch)
Victor Newton Johnson	(1886-1965)
Winfield Scott Johnson	(1850-1904)	Mary Ann Wills (1870)(7 ch)
Charles A. Johnson	(1871-1952)	Matty Dryden Duff (1912)(4 ch)
Sallie Victoria Johnson	(1873-1940)	William S. Cole (1891)(3 ch)
James W. Johnson	(1875- ?)	Eva Wood (0 ch)
Joseph E. Johnson	(1877-1953)	(1 ch)
Ora Olive Johnson	(1881-1905)
Susan Eliza Johnson	(1884-1943)	Robert Adrian Cole (1906)(2 ch)
Ethel Johnson	(1903-1903)
Elizabeth Victoria Johnson	(1861-1921)	David M. Wagner (1898)(16 ch)
Ethel Ann Wagner	(1879-1973)	Robert P. Donnelly (0 ch)
Daniel Eugene Wagner	(1880-1960)	Carrie O. Oliver (0 ch)
Bessie Belle Wagner	(1882-1918)	John C. Lamb (0 ch)
Nora B.Wagner	(1884-1982)	Walter Bolton (4 ch)
Gertrude Maud Wagner	(1885-1983)	Flura Edgar Johnson (1910)(3 ch)
Roy Miligan Wagner	(1887-1888)
Nellie May Wagner	(1889-1971)	Marvin B. Kay (0 ch)
S. Lou Venia Wagner	(1891-1987)
Martin Ross Wagner	(1893-1968)	Gusta Brown (3 ch)
Elsie Wagner	(1895-1895)
Virginia Genette Wagner	(1899-1932)	Eli Robert Graybeal (1915)(9 ch)
Fred Wagner	(1901-1901)
Wiley Elbert Wagner	(1903-1903)
A son & two daughters	(No records)

      (2) Thomas Allen Johnson (22 March 1821-7 December 1875) married Mary "Polly" Johnson (12 April 1817-4 October 1888) on 28 November 1843, in Mountain City, Tennessee. We do not know the names of the parents of Polly, but we know that she was born in North Carolina. This couple lived in Johnson Hollow, northwest of Mountain City.

      To this union were born seven children which are listed below, with the year of birth/death, name of spouse(s), year of marriage, and the number and names of children, if known:

James W. Johnson	(1844-1929)	Amanda C. Mitchell (1868)(8 ch)
Sarah L. Johnson	(1869-1870)
Mary Alice Johnson	(1870 ?)	W.A. Graybeal (1898)(7 ch)
Eva Sue Johnson	(1873-1942)	David Wesley Wills (1893)(6 ch)
Laura Lovenia Johnson	(1876-1970)	John K. Wilson (1900)(8 ch)
Eleanor "Ellie" Johnson	(1878-1969)	(1) W.S. Greer (1905)(1 ch) (2) Zedwick W. Wilson (1911)
David Garfield Johnson	(1881-1888)
Inez Gertrude Johnson	(1883- ?)	D.A. Adams (1905)(5 ch)
Oscar John Johnson	(1886-1929)	Bess B. Bumgardner (1916)(4 ch)
Benjamin J. Johnson	(1846-1846)
Thomas Zach. Taylor Johnson	(1847-1908)	(1) Mahlia C. Cress (1869)(2 ch) (2) S.V. Brookshire (1897)(2 ch) (3) Martha Simpson (1905)(1 ch)
Winnie Saraphine Johnson	(1871-1902)	James Keys Cole (1891)(2 ch)
Mary Johnson	(1889-1938)	John L. Sammons (1908)(3 ch)
Donald Allen Johnson	(1898-1982)	Geneva B. Edminston (1930)(6 ch)
Anne Lee Johnson	(1900-1930)	John Harper (2 ch)
Philip "Phil" Johnson	(1906- ?)
Lewis Jerrom Johnson	(1849-1849)
Drucella Caroline Johnson	(1850- ?)	Thomas M. Jones (1866)(8 ch)
Ida Jones	(c. 1869- ?)	Died young
Robert Jones	(c. 1872- ?)	Died young
Etta Jones	(c. 1874- ?)	Isaac Connor (7 ch)
William Thomas Allen Jones	(c. 1876- ?)	Belle Adams (12 ch)
Rosa Jones	(1879-1951)	James L. Perkins (1893)(5 ch)
Mollie Jones	(1881- ?)	Harvey A. Perkins (1897)(5 ch)
Jennie Jones	(c. 1882 - ?)	George W. Miller (5 ch)
Daniel Rueben Jones	(1889-1978)	(1) Mary E. Graham (1 ch) (2)Pet Graham (9 ch)
Gustavus Alfred Johnson	(1853-1889)	Rebecca J. Elrod (1877)(6 ch)
Thomas "Stacy" Johnson	(c. 1878-1951)	Daisy (Unknown) (0 ch)
Joseph Taylor Johnson	(c. 1880-1951)
Lola Francis Johnson	(1881-1957)	Edward B. Miller (1913)(3 ch)
Flura Edgar "Ed" Johnson	(1884-1974)	Gertrude M. Wagner (1910)(3 ch)
Connie Johnson	(c. 1887-1920)	(1 ch)
Anna Mae Johnson	(1889-1980)	W. Benjamin Miller (1916)(3 ch)
William Willis George Wash. McDowell Dixon Johnson	(1857-1914)	Cynthia C. Calloway (1877)(13 ch)
Joseph Hamilton Johnson	(1878- ?)
Sarah "Emma" Johnson	(1879-1957)	Robert L. Moretz (1907)(2 ch)
Arthur "Glen" Johnson	(1881-1914)	Oma Payne (1905)(3 ch)
Minnie Lillian Johnson	(1883-1965)	J. Frank Jackson (1904)(5 ch)
John "Blaine" Johnson	(1885- ?)	Lucille (Unknown) (3 ch)
Clay Vanderbilt Johnson	(1887- ?)
Windom W. "Reed" Johnson	(1889- ?)	Ida Cotmeyer (1 ch)
Lethia C. Johnson	(1891-1966)	Charles L. Stubbs (1918)(3 ch)
Thomas "Ray" Johnson	(1893-c. 1920)
William "McKinley" Johnson	(1895-1965)	Hazel E. Stnsberry (1924)(3 ch)
Mary "Flossie" Johnson	(1897-1979)	(1) Albert D. Shields (0 ch) (2) Thaddeus Smith (0 ch)
Whitelaw Dent Johnson	(1900-1948)	Una Louisa Arney (1921)(7 ch)
Edwin "Eugene" Johnson	(1902-1952)	Ruth Mae Arnold (3 ch)

      (3) Alfred W. Johnson (22 November 1823-15 October 1851) married Rebecca Wills (16 January 1823-17 December 1913) on 27 December 1849 at Mountain City, Tennessee. There was only one child born to this marriage, as Alfred died on 15 October 1851.

      The daughter, Emma A. Johnson was born in 1851, but we have no further information on her.

      Rebecca married again to Eli E. Faw in 1856, and upon his passing, married John W. Smith before the 1880 Johnson County, Tennessee census.


      (4) Barbary Johnson (c. 1826- ?) married David M. Lindsey on 12 September 1845, in Johnson County, Tennessee. We have record of two children being born to this marriage, as they are listed in the 1850 Johnson County, Tennessee, census. The family cannot be found in the 1860 JCT census, so we suspect that they may have moved west. The children are: Elizabeth born ca 1847, and Mary C. born ca 1849.


      (5) Rachel J. Johnson (1829- ?) died young.


      (6) Saraphine Johnson (1832- ?) died young.


      (7) John Good Johnson (1834- ?) married into the Shoun family, Martha Salena Ann Shown (7 September 1836-24 September 1889) on 13 September 1855, in Johnson County, Tennessee.

      On oath of two witnesses, E.F. Johnson and David W. Wills, he registered at Johnson County, November 9, 1889 under the Grandfather Clause to become a medical doctor. He was 2nd Lt. in the Civil War, 13th Tenn. Cavalry, Company E, and resigned his commission in September, 1865 at the age of 31. He opened his practice in Abingdon, Virginia.

      This family had five children, which are listed below, with the year of birth/death, name of spouse(s), year of marriage, and the number and names of children, if known:

Eugene Cicero "Bud" Johnson	(1857-1909)	Elvira "Ellen" Ray (1886)(11 ch)
Mary C. Johnson	(c. 1887- ?)
Cecil Johnson	(c. 1888- ?)	Harry Henson (1908)(2 ch)
Myrtle E. Johnson	(c. 18890 ?)
Vadie J. Johnson	(1890-1940)	Wm. Oscar Cornett (1914)(3 ch)
Andrew Johnson	(c. 1892- ?)	Maude Graybeal (1 ch)
Lettie E. Johnson	(c. 1893- ?)
Roy McKinely Johnson	(c. 1894- ?)	(Unknown) Venable (0 ch)
Zula El Johnson	(c. 1896- ?)	J.H. Graybeal
Cleo Johnson	(c. 1897- ?)	(Unknown) Henson (2 ch)
Bonnie Johnson	(c. 1898- ?)	John Burgiess (1915)(4 ch)
Myrtle L. Johnson	(1905-1978)	Edward C. McQueen (1926)(5 ch)
Thomas A. Johnson	(1864-1864)
Daniel L. Johnson	(1866- ?)
Genettie O. "Nettie" Johnson	(1867-1916)	Joseph D. Cross (1891)(7 ch)
Mae Cross	(c. 1892- ?)	E.K. Donnelly (1907)
Minnie Pearl Cross	(c. 1892- ?)	M.C. Henson (1907)(1 ch)
Selina A. Cross	(c. 1894- ?)
Eva T. Cross	(c. 1896- ?)	(2 ch)
Butler Cross	(1898-1898)
Mary Lee Cross	(c. 1900- ?)	Frank Gibson (1 ch)
Joseph Cross	(c. 1902- ?)
Edward Johnson	(c. 1869- ?)	Died young

      (8) Mary E. Johnson (1839-27 April 1873) married Marcus A. Keys (1 October 1841-14 October 1908) on 22 February 1866, in Johnson County, Tennessee. To this marriage were born five children before died at the age of 34.

      The children are listed below, with the year of birth/death, name of spouse(s), year of marriage, and the number and names of children, if known:

Alfred C. Keys	(1867-1910)
Annie E. Keys	(1869- ?)	Lee Osborne (1891)
John W. Keys	(1870-1924)	Sallie J. Morrison (1892)(1 ch)
Cettie P. Keys	(1895- ?)	John Jasper Baker (1918)
Laura F. Keys	(1872- ?)	Alexander F. Mock (1893)(5 ch)
Claude E. Mock	(1895- ?)
Bessie S. Mock	(1899- ?)
Fred Mock	(1900-1900)
Son Mock	(1902-1902)
Laura A. Mock	(1907- ?)
Mary E. Keys	(1873- ?)	J.S. Greer (1896)

      (9) Catherine D. Johnson (1840- ?) married twice, first to William M. Dougherty on 12 November 1861 in Johnson County, Tennessee. To this marriage were born four children. William passed away circa 1866, and Catherine married Benjamin C. Grayson on 20 October 1867, also in Johnson County. There was one child born to this marriage, before the couple divorced.

The names of the children are listed below:

Sarah S. Dougherty	(c. 1857- ?)
Mary D. Dougherty	(c. 1863- ?)
William A.J. Dougherty	(c. 1864- ?)
Martha Grayson	(c. 1869 - ?)

      (10) Susannah Johnson - We have no information on Susannah.


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