Biography of Sgt. Thomas Walker Johnson, Cooke County, Texas

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Submitted by: Pat King <jerpatking@verizon.net>
        Date: Jul 2007
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My ancestor, James Johnson was born 15 October 1785 in Madison Co., Kentucky
and died 1860 in Gainesville, Cooke Co., TX. He came to Texas with a daughter and with
his son, Thomas Walker Johnson, daughter of his wife, Elizabeth Parker.

Sgt. Thomas Walker Johnson wrote letters home to his family beginning April 1863 and
described the big and small picture of the War, as he saw it. He was obviously very
well educated and a fine Christian man.

On 16 October 1864, he wrote from a camp near Camden, Arkansas. It was the first
mention of his illness which resulted in his death on 29 November 1864. There are three
letters written between these dates which are especially powerful.

His wife was Martha Elizabeth Bradley, a descendant of Leonard Keeling Bradley of earliest
Fayette Co., KY who has numerous descendants in Texas. I am descended from his brother,
Irvin Johnson, who went to California a short time before his father and brother moved to
Texas. One sister went to California and the other to Texas.

Images are available at 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cooke/cooktoc.htm