BIO: Perry C. Johnson, Fleming Co., Ky

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA"  GOODSPEED BROS. 1884


PERRY C. JOHNSON, a native of Fleming County, Ky., and a resident of Orange County, 
(Northeast Township), Ind., since 1849, was born June 5, 1825, and is the youngest of 
his parents' family.  Arthur Johnson, his father, was a native of the Keystone State, 
but in early manhood went to Kentucky, where he married Miss Nancy Downey, and from 
the Blue Grass State moved of Jackson County, Ind., in 1832; thence to Orange County 
in 1849, where he died at the advanced age of seventy-two years, and his wife at 
sixty-six years.  Perry C. Johnson has always followed farming, and by a life of hard 
work, frugality and good management has secured 400 acres of good land in this county 
and 100 acres in Illinois.  For twenty-one years he has been a consistent member of 
the Baptist Church, and in political matters he is a supporter of the principles 
enunciated by the National Democratic Party. Miss Catharine T., daughter of John and 
Elizabeth Rayhill, became his wife in 1852, and to their union have been born 
children, named:  Nannie U, Oliver P., Ida, Herbert, Bettie and Ellen.  Mrs. Johnson 
is a native of Washington County, Ind., her birth occurring in the year 1834.