WARE COUNTY  GA  Biography   Lemuel Johnson

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HON. LEMUEL JOHNSON
Hon. Lemuel Johnson was born in Appling County May 5,
1814. His parents were Duncan and Low Joyce. She was the
daughter of Millander and Mary Sellers. They were large
land owners and slave holders. His grandparents were
named John M. and Polly. They were farmers, of Scotch-
Irish descent.

His father was in Co. I, 26th Georgia regiment and served
throughout the war. He was in the Army of Northern
Virginia under General Stonewall Jackson, as a drummer
boy of the regiment.

Lemuel Johnson received a common school education and is
in the saw mill and turpentine business at St. Marys. He
has been in the lumber business for forty years. He is a
K. P. and Past Master Mason. Mr. Johnson owns a farm of
300 acres in this county, his beautiful home at the
corner of Gilmore and Miller streets; is director in the
Bank of Waycross; has been a member of the Georgia Senate
three terms and has been on some of the most important
committees, including banks and finance, was, in fact, on
thirteen committees in all; was a member of the Board of
Education for 15 years and was a member of the Waterworks
Commission until recently.

Lemuel Johnson married Miss Annie J. daughter of Charles
and Eliza Youmans, of Pierce County. The children are
Mrs. W. S. Branham, of Oxford, Ga., Mrs. F. M. Hawkins,
of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. William Wadley, of
Birmingham, Ala., Alvin L., Clifford and George.

Ref: INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE WAYCROSS EVENING HERALD, Waycross, Georgia, June 1907, p. 36.

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