CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: G. M. JOHNSON - Smith County, TX 

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
27 January 2002
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
G. M. JOHNSON

George Miller Johnson was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1834, and 
removed from the State of Mississippi to Texas with his father's 
family and settled in Cherokee county.  In 1852 he removed to Tyler 
and has been a citizen continuously.  He enlisted in Company D, 
15th Texas Infantry and served throughout the war with the trans 
Mississippi army.  He was made a lieutenant and afterward served as 
adjutant of his regiment.  Was paroled at the close in 1865.  He 
has been connected with newspaper work and was also a merchant.  He 
was a deputy clerk of the supreme court in the fifties under Gen. 
Tom Green.  Also served as district clerk of Smith county.  On the 
3rd of February, 1856, he was married to Miss Martha R. Seaton; 
both are now living at their handsome home on Cherry Hill on North 
Border Street, in Tyler.  Chas. V. Johnson of Austin, is a son.