ABEL JOHNSON
(1760-1830)

by Mrs. Lawson Roper

Abel Johnson was born in North Carolina in 1760, and was living in Johnson
County, North Carolina, during the Revolutionary War.

He served as a private for forty-two months, and was later granted 320 acres 
of land for his military service.  Date of the grant was February 13, 1797.

Johnson died in Montgomery Co., Tennessee in 1830.

(The only member of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter DAR who is a descendant of 
Pvt. Johnson is Mrs. Lawson Roper)

Taken from the Fulton Daily Leader, September 12, 1975