Biography of JOHN A. JOHNSON, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	JOHN A. JOHNSON, planter, Paris, Ark. Mr. Johnson is one
of the successful farmers of Johnson Township, and one of its
pioneer settlers. Like many other prominent men of Logan County,
he owes his nativity to North Carolina, his birth occurring in
1821, and is a son of Littleton and Lucy (Adkins) Johnson, natives
also of that State. The father was born February 15, 1795, and was
married December 11, 1816, to Miss Adkins, who was born July 30, 1799.
Their family consisted of nine children - three sons and six
daughters - only one, a sister, besides our subject, now living:
Susan A. (wife of R.J. Nesbit, now residing in Texas.) The father
emigrated from Tennessee to Arkansas in 1841, settled in what is
now Logan County, and entered a tract of land on which he made
large improvements. His wife died in 1837 and he in 1857. John A.
Johnson was reared in this county, and was married here in 1857, to
Miss Mary Lee, who bore him five children, three now living: W.L.,
William C. and Emma. The wife of our subject died in 1866 and he was
married, the second time, in 1869 to Miss Margaret Guthrey. Mr.
Johnson enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1863, and served as a
private until peace was declared. He is the owner of 120 acres of
fine land, and has 100 acres of this under cultivation, his
principal crops being corn and cotton. Mrs. Johnson is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.