Letter of P.L. (Peter) Johnson to niece, Sallie J. Chunn (1904) - Conecuh Co. AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGenWeb NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. Lygia D. Cutts - ALGENWEB Archives FM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed by Patsy Quick JUNE 1999 Woods Panola Co. Texas June 20, 1904 Mrs. Sallie J.Chunn, N.O. La My Dear Niece, Yours of the 5th Inst. received in due time. I was glad to hear from you. I have always wanted to see you. I imagine that your temperament and disposition is more like mine than of my other nieces or nephews. I am sorry you failed to trace my brothers children up for I am anxious to hear from them and have since my brothers death., but Aunt Holly gave me the best clue to trace them I ever had. And now, I hope that through you and your Aunt Olive and her friend to hear from them or learn their P.Office address and their names. Please give .your Aunt Olive my respects for the sake of "Old Lang Sine" and let me hear from you as often as you can find time in this b~y world and while I remain this side of the river· I will say right here that I am enjoying life as much in my old age as I did in my youth, but of course I do not enjoy the frivolities, enjoyed as a boy ' Now I will answer your question. My Grandmother Parker and Grandfather Parker were cousins. Both named Parker. Married in Hancock County, Georgia. You can safely claim kin with all of the Parkers south of the Masom-Dixon line and if Alton B., candidate f6r president comes around you can call him cousin. You are apter to be right than wrong. My Grandfather Johnson was an-Irishman. I have heard he and his brother landed in New York and separated and never saw or heard from each other any more. My Grandmother Johnsons maiden name was Vaughn. She had One sister an old maid that lived with my Father, till my Father died, then she lived with Uncle Washington Johnson until she died. Father had one sister. She married Wesley Young. They had 3 sons Washington, William and Sampson, 3 daughters Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth. William Young moved to Grimes County,Texas. Washington Young to Washeta Co., Ark. and Sampson to Titus Co. Texas. Mary Young married John Wilson and moved to Washeta Co. Ark.Washington Johnson, my Uncle had 5 sons Washington, Wesley, William, Smith and Charles. They were all raised in Conecuh County, Ala. and all remained there except Wesley, He moved to Caddo Parish, La. and from there to Fayette Co. Ark. and was killed there leaving sons and daughters· I have not kept up with my Uncles daughters. There was one of them that married a man named Wilson and moved to Caddo Parish, La., then Wilson died. I found his widow there. She had one daughter. That daughter married a man named Thomas Dow. He died died leaving sons and daughters, all now living in Shelby Co. Texas. I keep them in view (i e) I keep posted with them. I have 2nd cousins living in-the-city-of-Dallas,that-Ihave--visited-offen . and corresponded with occasionally. John E. Parker is a dentist and said he was in Baltimore with C.O. Chunn, your husband. If Dr. Chunn knows John, he knows a good man now. John came near wrecking himself with strong drink and gave his father sorrow. His father told me that the only trouble of his life was a drunken son, but John reformed, married a nice woman and now is a model pappa. This brings me home. I was born on the 12th day of March, 1828. Was married to Mrs. Caroline E. Murray, November 11, 1852. Landed in Texas October 1854 with $7.50 in my pocket and did not know but one man in the state. He came with me from Ala. He was in worse fix than I was, he didn't have a dollar. I have six children. George P. my oldest, married has 5 children, 4 girls and I boy. I live with him or he lives with me or we live together in peace and harmony. Sarah married Charles Owens, has 7 children and is doing well. William W. and has 6 children living, one married and one Granddaughter. Laura dead, married G. Bowers, 3 sons living. Henry Parker married has 4 boys and 1 girl. Lenora E. married J.W. Gomillion, have 2 girls. Samuel Pugh , my baby married has 3 girls and I boy. I am now like a old man praying. His wife knelt with him, until tired out from kneeling then got up and cooked breakfast. She told him breakfast was getting cold. He told her he had it in such a tangle he could not wind it up. She told him to say Amen and quite and come to breakfast. I will ask you again to be diligent and persevere in finding your lost cousins and and my nephews and nieces, children of George N. Johnson who died at Rockland, a prisoner of war. I sometimes think I am a grum about my relatives. I sometimes meditate that GOD in his love and mercy, has preserved me and taken my brothers and I the weakest both mentally and physically of the four. I do not complain at GOD'S work for I know his ways are above man's ways. I have not heard from your brothers and sisters in several months but I am sure they would write me if there was anything was the matter with them. I think of one more item, they, my children are all settled on farms of their own and the farthest away from me is only four miles. They are all farmers, except one. William W. has a machinery and grain I am in good health at this time as far as I can judge for myself. May be sick and die at any time and try to be ready all the time to answer the roll call to cross the river. Now if there are any questions you want to ask me, I will answer them to the best of my ability. Now I ask you to give me all the information you can about all my relatives in Fla. that you can. I mean the Diamonds. Hoping to hear from you soon. I remain affectionate. Old Uncle P.L. Johnson Peter