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Rev George Washington Johnson

29 Jan 1836 – 2 Sep 1916

Birth29 Jan 1836
Death2 Sep 1916
CemeteryBethlehem Cemetery
Whitney , Hill County , Texas , USA
Added byCathy Creger Shelley on 27 Dec 2002
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7037642

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Submitted by Pam Jackson: Jan 2014 GEORGE WASHINGTON "G.W." JOHNSON was born in Newton County, Mississippi 29 January 1836. He was the sixth child born to William Samuel Johnson and his wife Sally Reynolds Johnson. He married Martha Ann Lofton (6 October 1842 – 10 December 1935) the daughter of Frederick Becton Lofton and Elizabeth Rhem on 27 October 1867 in Newton County, Mississippi. They moved to Hill County, Texas in 1868 and were the parents of six children, three boys and three girls, all who were born in Texas. According to the 1860 Decatur, Newton County, Mississippi Census G.W. Johnson was living with his father, stepmother, a brother and half-sister. The family engaged in farming as did many of their neighbors. He enlisted as a Private with Company D of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry in 1861 at Chunky (originally spelled Chunkey) in Newton County. On 15 February 1863 he was elected to the rank of Second Lieutenant and eventually obtained the rank of Third Lieutenant. He was taken prisoner 15 December 1864 near Nashville, Tennessee at the Battle of Nashville under the command of General John Bell Hood and transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois 23 December 1864. With the surrenders of both Lee and Johnston's armies, he was told that "prisoners could not be released on account of the lack of transportation facilities to carry them home and it would be three months before they could be released." According to his pension application, he was "emaciated and almost dead and could not have survived three months longer of prison life". However he and others prisoners were "told that if they would enlist in the Federal service, he could be transported and transferred to the west to protect the frontier against the Indians and would not be required to fight any white men." These men (Galvanized Yankees) were sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and upon "recruiting and resting" sent to Council Grove, Kansas and eventually Fort Dodge where "in September (1865) we were told by our Captain that if we left he had orders not to attempt to hold us or recapture us. So then and there we left". He returned to Newton County, married and moved to Texas in 1868 where his older brother (also was a veteran of the 3rd Mississippi) had moved. His occupations were farming, carpentry and occasional preaching. He died in Wichita Falls, Texas 3 September 1916 and is buried in Bethlehem Cemetery in Whitney, Hill County, Texas. Submitted to the UDC for publication in the second edition of the Patriot Ancestor Album February 2014 Ref:from Wikipedia The site of Fort Dodge in the U.S. state of Kansas was originally an old campground for wagons traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, just west of the western junction of the Wet and Dry Routes and near the middle or Cimarron Cutoff. On March 23, 1865, Major General Grenville M. Dodge, who commanded the 11th and 16th Kansas Cavalry Regiments, wrote to Colonel James Hobart Ford to propose establishing a new military post west of Fort Larned. On orders of Col. Ford, Captain Henry Pearce, with Company C, Eleventh Cavalry Regiment, and Company F, Second U.S. Volunteer Infantry, from Fort Larned, occupied and established Fort Dodge on April 10, 1865.[1] Submitted by Donald B Whitener George Washington Johnson, b:29 Jan 1836 in Newton County, MS, fourth son of William Samuel Johnson b:21 Mar 1799, Robertson County, TN and Sally Reynolds b:abt 1800 Georgia. George married Martha Ann Lofton, (Mattie) 27 Oct 1867 in Newton County, MS. Martha b:6 Oct 1842 Intercourse, Sumter, Alabama, fourth daughter of Frederick Becton Loftin b:abt 1805 in North Carolina and Elizabeth Rhem b:abt 1802 in Jones County, NC. Martha died 10 Dec 1935 in Brownfield, Terry, Texas and was buried in Tahoka Cemetery, block 5, Tahoka, Lynn, Texas. Children of G W and Mattie Johnson are: David Rhem Johnson b:12 Dec 1868 in Hill, TX Minnie Johnson b:Feb 1870 in Hill, TX Will W Johnson b:18 Apr 1872 in Hill, TX Mary May Johnson b:28 Nov 1877 in Hill, TX Silas Barnes Johnson b:03 Aug 1879 in Hill, TX Martha E Johnson b:24 Jan 1882 in Texas

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