Title: Sam Johnson 1890 Grant Parish Louisiana Submitted to USGENWEB By: Kay Thompson - Brown Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Norwest Louisiana Nashville and Chicago: the Southern Publishing Company 1890 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Sam Johnson a lumberman, farmer and ginner of Ward 6, Grant parish, La was born in the City of Brotherly Love, Penn, in 1849, his parents, Joseph and Anna (Allen) Johnson being born in Canada and South Carolina in 1823 and 1826, respectively, their marriage taking place in Pennsylvania. They afterward moved to Tennessee, in which State Mr Johnson died about 1878 his widow passing to her long home in 1880, both being worth members of the Christian Church. Mr. Johnson was a merchant and farmer and a son of James Johnson who died in Canada. Hugh Allen, the mother's farther, died in the Palmetto State. The subject of this sketch was the eldest of eight children and is the only one now living. He was reared to a farm life principally in Tennessee and when about sixteen years of age began working for himself in a wagon factory where he thoroughly learned the trade but did not follow it long. For some ten years he gave his attention to carpentering in Tennessee and Kentucky but has since been engaged in saw milling. In 1882 he came from Tennessee to Grant parish, La and since 1886 has been the proprietor of his present mill which has a capacity of 10,000 feet per day. He also runs a planing mill, grist mill and cotton gin and is the owner of about 1,500 acres of fin land about 240 acres being river bottom land of which 100 acres are under cultivation all of which has been earned by his own efforts. He was married in Tennessee in 1875, to Miss Lou, daughter of John and Lou Mansfield, her birth occurring in Tennessee, in which State she was left an orphan when very young. Four children have been born to her union with Mr. Johnson. The latter is a member of Montgomery Lodge No. 168 of the A.F. & A.M. and although he is a Baptist his wife is a member of the Christian Church.