Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Johnson , John  H. And Thomas May 20, 1864
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Raleigh Standard 6 July, 1864
   To record the death of a friend and neighbor, with whom we have been 
associated for many years by the strongest ties of friendship, is a task that 
makes the hand and heart tremble with sorrowful emotions. Such are our 
feelings while we record the death of our friend, JOHN H. JOHNSON, who fell in 
a charge in defense of his country on the 20th day of May, 1864, near 
Petersburg. He volunteered in Company D, Captain Lassiter's Company, 35th 
Regiment, N. C. Troops, in June, 1861, and participated in all the fights from 
Newbern to the fights around Richmond, where he received his death wound.
He had professed religion in October, 1855, and united himself with the 
Baptist Church at Olive's Chapel, Wake County. He was a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.
   He was born on the 4th day of March 1840 and died the 20th day of May, 1864.
   While penning this notice we have heard of the death of his brother, 
THOMAS, who fell on the battle-field near Petersburg, on Friday the 17th of 
June. He possessed all the qualities of his brother, JOHN, as a soldier, a 
Christian, a Mason. He leaves a devoted wife and child to mourn his death.
   He joined the same company at the same time with his brother, and when JOHN 
fell on the 20th, he caught him in his arms and remained with him until driven 
away by the enemy. His poor brother lay on the battle-field two days. THOMAS 
then took his body, laid it in the grave, where it remained for a week, when 
his father took it up, removed it to the family graveyard, and there buried 
it. May the ashes of these noble young men repose in peace.

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