Biographical Sketch of Robert T. Johns, Greene County, Missouri, Center 
Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of William and Martha (Robinson) Johns, nat-
ives of Tennessee, who came to Greene County, Missouri, in 1844. Robert
was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, March 4, 1838. He grew to man-
hood here in this county, receiving such education as the schools of 
the county afforded.  At the age of seventeen, he commenced to work at
milling.  His father built a mill in 1855, near where the Johns Bros.'s
mill now stands.  He has since followed milling and farming, building 
his mill in 1872.  Mr. Johns was married December 23, 1860, to Miss 
Sarah E. Wallace, daughter of Prior and Martha D. (Neil) Wallace, of
this county.  Her parents were natives of Tennessee.  Their union has 
been blest with five children, all living, viz.: Montzell, Mary O.,
Belle R., Ida L., and Stella J.  Mr. Johns has been a liberal patron of
the religious denomination of which he belongs, the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, giving about one-fourth the cost of the church building
named in his honor in his neighborhood.  He has been an active member
of the Methodist Church for eighteen years, and is a memeber of the
Masonic fraternity.  He owns over three hundred acres of land, besides
his milling property.  No man in the county enjoys the confidence of 
his neighbors to a greater extent than Robert T. Johns.

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