OBIT:  Johnson, Cave Col., 1850 - Boone Co.
submitted by Polly A. Menendez  <bobpolly@zapcom.net>

Col. Cave Johnson departed this life at his residence, at North Bend, Boone 
Co., KY, on the 19th day of January, 1850, in the 90th year of his age.

Sound and firm of constitution and health, endowed with strong common sense, 
sedate and thoughtful, taciturn and slow of speech, the deceased possesed 
much individuality and originality of character and was a good specimen of 
that hardy, vigorous and manly class of men, - the pioneers of Kentucky.  
When he immigrated to Kentucky, it was a wilderness, whose rich soil and 
productiveness made it the common property and general battlefield, not only 
of the wolf, the panther, and the buffalo, but of the equally wild and savage
Indian.  The white man came to "the dark and bloody ground" and in a few 
years the contest for the dominion was over, - the howl of the wolf, the cry 
of the panther, and the yell of the Indian were heard no more.  For more than
seventy years Col. Cave has been an inhabitant and citizen of Kentucky.  But 
of the connection of the deceased with the early settlement of our state or 
with the active and busy scenes of subsequent times, it is not out purpose 
here to write.  The sketch of his life, written by himself, and furnished us 
but a few months before his death must suffice.

In politics Col. Johnson was ever a Democrat.  In religion he was a Baptist 
and had been a consistent and zealous member of that church for more than 
fifty years.  He also took great interest in the spreading of the gospel, 
and contributed liberally to the support of foreign and home missions.  A 
short time before his death he prepared the following narrative, written in 
his own steady plain business hand:

(to be continued, see Reminiscences From the Life of Col. Cave Johnson)

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