Iredell County NcArchives Biographies.....Johnson, George November 7, 1822 - 
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Judy Harvey judycharvey@gmail.com March 1, 2007, 9:34 pm

Author: Goodspeeds of Fayette county,Tennessee

George W. S. JOHNSON was born in Iredell county,N. C., November 7,1822, and is 
a son of Curtis and Mary (SHARPE) JOHNSON, both natives of Iredell County, N. 
C.Our subject is of scott-irish descent.The father was born in 1795 and died 
in Fayette county in 1858. The mother was born in 1793 and died in same county 
in 1881; they married in 1817, and in 1835 they moved to Missouri, and in 1837 
to Fayette county and settled 8 miles east of Somerville and lived twelve or 
fourteen years;then moved 7 miles south of Somerville, where they died.Both 
parents were consistent members of the Methodist church.Our subject was the 
3rd of four children,and after finishing his education commenced farming.In 
1845 his wifes father gave him a good farm containing 115 acres; in 1859 he 
sold it and bought another farm, and now owns 390 acres of the best land in 
Fayette county.January 9,1845, he married Miss Mary Stidham, born in Fayette 
county,March 3,1825; her father was one of the pioneers of Fayette county.They 
have no children.Mr. Johnson is not a member of any church,but accepts the 
christian faith, and is in every respect a strickly moral man and contributes 
liberally to the Methodists,his wife being an earnest and influential member 
of that church, and it being his church by preference. He is a sound Democrat 
and a man possessing many noble traits of character.

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