Talbot-Crawford-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Biographies.....Johnson, Zillah Allen Smith May 29, 1806 - May 23, 1832 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 June 22, 2013, 9:47 am Source: Family records, will Author: T. Bradford Willis Zillah Allen Smith Johnson was the daughter of the Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. and Mary "Polly" Allen Smith. She was born on May 29, 1806 in Virginia and died on May 23, 1832 in Georgia. Zillah was a sister of Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr., a pioneer of Talbot County. 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, the 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 noted Methodist minister. It is believed that Zillah A. Smith Johnson was the first person to be buried in the A. G. Smith, Sr. family cemetery. In his 1839 Crawford County will, the 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." In November 2012, the writer had the opportunity to visit once again this old Smith family cemetery. The cemetery had recently been cleared of its vines and brush so all the grave markers and altar tombs were once again visible to those wishing to pay their respects to these pioneers of Georgia. Additional Comments: This article was published in the Talbotton New Era (Talbot County, Ga newspaper) on June 20, 2013. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/bios/johnson420bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb