Nathaniel Johnson was born in
When he was about ten years old the father and mother went on Saturday to Church. They were to have communion on the Sabbath and the mother not being able to walk that distance of two days together, they stayed all night near the church, the father coming home to the little boys. After supper, he went out to cut a tree down not far from the house. He was clearing out some to farm. The tree fell differently from what he expected and fell on him killing him. Poor boy; night coming on and his father lying dead under the big tree, too far and too late for him to go to anyone. The wolves a barking and panthers crying, it would not do for him to leave his little brothers or safe for him to go; but oh what could he do to protect his father's body from the wild animals. He made his brother sit in the door while he threw brush on the logs that were burning in the little clearing around the house. He worked until it began to get dark. He put his brothers to bed and then his little heart gave way and he cried until he began to get sleepy, but that would never do to sleep and let the hungry wolves get papa.
So he went to work again and kept dragging brush and sticks and throwing on the fire nearest to where his body lay. It was summer and the nights short; just at daylight a man came along hunting his cow and saw the trouble. He went and got some more men and got the body into the house, then went for the mother.
Not long after a little sister came to their house. He worked in summer and helped his mother to keep the family and went to school in winter until he got so he could teach.
When he was thirty-five years old he married Nancy Carson. To them eleven children were born:
· i. William Johnson, m. Fanny Wilson
· ii. James Johnson m. Elizabeth Thomason
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iii.Wilson Henry Johnson, b.
· 1887
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iv. Sarah Johnson, d.
· v. Samuel Johnson, m. Eliza Carson
· vi. John Johnson, m.Rebecca Herron
· ix. Robert Johnson m. Margaret
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Henry 2Johnson (Nathaniel1)was born
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Claybaugh
· Children
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i. Lillian
J3 Johnson (Henry2, Nathaniel1) was
born
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She married Charles H Hoy
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