HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS William Johnson, Jr.

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.


WILLIAM JOHNSON, JR., farmer, Buchanan, Haralson
Co., Ga., son of William and Polly (Ayres) Johnson,
was born in Haralson county in 1853-His father was
born and raised in what is now Haralson county,
reached manhood poor and penniless and uneducated.
He made his first money splitting rails at fifty
cents per hundred, and worked at that and saved
money until he had enough to buy a small tract of
land on Tallapoosa river. He was a Baptist preacher
and a very useful citizen. His mother was a native
of North Carolina. Mr. Johnson was raised a farmer,
and as there were no schools then in his
neighborhood, received no education, but after he
was married received instruction from his wife by a
pine-knot fire light. He has always lived in
Haralson county, and is so highly esteemed as to
have been elected sheriff of the county in 1891.
When he married he did not have a dollar, but he has
worked hard and saved money, and now has a nice farm
and is comfortably situated. He is rated among the
best citizens of Haralson county and none command
higher respect or aremore highlv esteemed. Mr.
Johnson married Miss Mary Munroe-born in 1843 -
daughter of Duncan Munroe, and to them five children
have been born: Oscar,Martha Jane, Willie, Mollie
and Charlie. Mr. Johnson is a master Mason and
himself and wife are exemplary members of the
Baptist church.