Sketch of John Johnson, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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John Johnson, of Tennessee, settled on "the point" below the town of
St. Charles, in 1805.  His father was killed by the Indians when he
was a small boy, and he grew up with a natural antipathy to the race.
He became a noted Indian fighter, and never let an opportunity pass
to slay a red man.  On one occasion, while the people were collected
in the forts, during the War of 1812, he saw an Indian hiding behind
a log not far from the fort, disguised as a buffalo, with the hide,
to which the horns were attached, thrown over his body.  The disguise
was so transparent that Johnson had no difficulty in penetrating it
and he at once decided to give the Indian a dose of lead for the bene-
fit of his health.  So he cautiously left the fort, and making a wide
circuit, came in behind the savage, who was intently watching for an
opportunity to pick off some one of the inmates who might come within
range of his gun.  But a ball from Johnson's rifle put an end to his
adventures here, and sent him speeding on his way to the happy hunting
grounds of the spirit land.  For more than five years after his re-
moval to Missouri, Johnson dressed in the Indian garb, and never slept
in a house, preferring to repose in the open air with nothing but the
heavens for a shelter.  He was thirty seven years of age when he came
to Missouri, and when the Indian War commenced he joined the company
of rangers commanded by Capt. Massey, and was stationed for some time 
at Cap-au-Gris on the Mississippi River.  Before he left Tennessee he
was married to Nancy Hughlin, of Nashville, and they had six children:
Daniel, Elizabeth, Levi, Dorcas, Evans and Susan.  Daniel married Susan
Smelzer.  Elizabeth married Asa Griffith.  Levi married Esther Bert.
Dorcas married Thomas Fallice.  Evans was married four times; first to
Susan Miller; second to Susan Sullivan; third to Angeline Lefavre; and
fourth, to Sarah M. McCoy.  Susan married William Roberts.	

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