Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Joseph Johnson May 23 1841
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Columbus Times [newspaper] 3 June 1841
3 June 1841

ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GONE.  
Died at Mountville, Troup county, Georgia, on Sunday morning 23d ult. Mr. 
JOSEPH JOHNSON, in the 87th year of his age.  Mr. Johnson was a native of 
Halifax county, Va. where he resided until some two or three years before the 
commencement of the revolutionary war, when he removed to Chatham county, N.C. 
where he resided until about two years since.  He was one of the few who 
enlisted and served in the American army “for and during the war” at that hour 
which tried the souls of men.  His papers show him to have entered the army as 
1st Sergeant of the company to which he was then attached, and afterwards, to 
have been promoted to 1st Lieutenant.  He fought in some of the most important 
battles of the Revolution, and was once taken prisoner and retained six months 
by the British.
     Mr. Johnson has been truly favord by Providence in having endowed to him a 
strong natural mind and a good constitution, which remained but slightly 
impaired until a short time before his death.  He had never been a member of 
any Church or made any profession of the Christian Religion, but, as he 
observed a short time before his exit, he died “like many in olden times, with 
a calm composure after having acted his part.”  It is sufficient of him to say 
that he lived 63 years at one place with character unsullied.
     One of the Raleigh, N. C. Papers will please publish the above.   A FRIEND.


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