Crawford County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Johnson, Zillah Allen Smith [sides Of Her Marker] 
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Cemetery:           Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. Family Cemetery
Name:               Zillah Allen Smith [sides Of Her Marker] Johnson

Date Of Photograph: November 26, 2012
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Zillah Allen Smith Johnson:

Birth:  May 29, 1806
Virginia
Death:  May 23, 1832
Georgia 

Zillah A. Smith Johnson was the daughter of Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. 
and Mary "Polly" Allen Smith. She married Nathan Johnson on December 11, 1823 
in Oglethorpe County, GA. Nathan Johnson was a member of the Cherokee Corner 
Methodist Church.

In the 1839 Crawford County, GA will of her father, Rev. Anthony Garnett 
Smith, Sr., her children are mentioned: Luke G. Johnson [Sr.], Robert Thomas 
Johnson, and Harriet Ann Johnson. Rev. Dr. Luke G. Johnson, Jr. was born June 
22, 1859, a son of Luke G. Johnson, Sr. and Mary A. E. Johnson; he was was a 
Methodist minister.

It is believed that Zillah A. Smith Johnson was the first person to be buried 
in the A. G. Smith family cemetery. 

In his 1839 Crawford County will, Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. states:

"My wish and desire is that when it may be practicable that 2 marble slabs 
shall be procured from Cherokee, one to be placed over my grave, the other 
over my beloved wife's after her decease. Enclosed with this instrument will 
be a short epitaph subject to the revision of my family.

The dividend going to Nathan Johnson's children above named shall be paid to 
him who is their natural guardian, and he is hereby authorized if he thinks 
proper to apply a part of that amount to placing a tomb stone (a marble slab) 
over his late wife [Zillah A. Smith Johnson] (my daughter's) grave.

I hereby direct that a solid stone wall be made around my grave yard of 
sufficient rise for the use of my family's burying ground, and in case of any 
sale the burying ground or grave yard be exempted and provided(?) for as the 
law may direct." 
 

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