Biography of John H Johnson, Scott Co, AR

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Submitted by: Charlene Holland <Char@presys.com>
        Date: 9 Sep 1998
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     John H. Johnson's life, from his earliest recollection, has been
passed on a farm, his early day being spent in assisting his father, who,
in addition to being a successful tiller of the soil, was a well known
educator. The subject of this sketch was born in Johnson County of this
State in 1849, his parents, John H., Sr. and Mary (Sweeden) Johnson,
being born in the State of Tennessee. About 1833 or 1834 they came to
Arkansas, where for some time Mr. Johnson followed the occupation of
school teaching. In 1853 he moved to Scott County, and settled on a large
woodland farm in the Fourche Valley, in which section he taught school in
addition to clearing up his farm, also serving for several years, before
the Rebellion, as county surveyor. He was a strong Union man in sentiment
during the war, but did not serve on either side. He died in 1866, a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; his widow dying in 1884, a
member of that church also. The subject of this sketch spent the greater
part of his youth in this county, near Waldron, and on a farm near his
present place of abode. Although his early advantages were limited, he is
a well-informed man, and has proven himself a good financier. He was
married in 1867 to Miss Mary E. Tate, a native of Alabama, and a daughter
of William Tate, after which family Tate Township, in this county, was
named. Mr. Johnson settled on his present farm in 1868, and now has a
good farm of fifty acres under cultivation, on which he erected an
excellent and substantial residence in 1883. He began working at
blacksmithing and woodwork in 1872, and, although he is perfectly capable
of putting up a good wagon, he mostly does repairing. From 1882 until
1889 he was postmaster at Green Ridge, at the end of which time he
resigned. His family consists of the following children: Francis Joseph,
John William, Sarah Ann (wife of William Londus), Floy, Benjamin, Thomas
Scott and Mahala (who died at the age of eighteen months). Mr. Johnson
and wife are members of the Baptist Church, and socially he is a Mason.
His sons assist him in the shop, and John William is about to start a
shop of his own, eighteen miles east of Waldron.