Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

692 . BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES
farm. and has since made his home with his son Watson in West Jersey
village. Mr. IIenr.y, as was also his mife, is a, member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He has always been n Republic:~n, and has
helcl se;eral io\vnship offices, although he has never so~1~11t them. IIe
has spent some time visiting tlie scenes of his cllilclhootl, from ~vhich
he has recently returned. IIe is i11 his sixty-fifth year, ant1 although
his locl~sho\v the inroads of time, he is quite active.
31~s. Boone h~geZ8, who died at El Paso, Tes., in July, 1583, ~esiclecl
near the south line of West Jersey.
me oh Jc~ckson born in Fayette county, O., in the year 1832, is a son
of John ancl Elizabeth (Rouse) Jnclcsou, natives of Pennsylvania, who
settlecl in Ohio, where 31r. Jackson died in 1846. Mrs. Jacltson is living
at the age of ninety years. Our subject mas reared on the far111
and in IS54 caine to Illinois mcl settled in Tonlon, where he laesidecl till
the f ollom ing spring,.\vhen he secured worlr 011 a farm near Tuulon, as a,
hand, where 11e has slnce residecl. In IS61 he purchased 136 acres in
West Jersev tor~rnshi13. In 1857 lle ~narriect Miss Paulina Ann. a
(laughter of"~i1liam &!ah;my. They were the parents of five children :
1,vclia E.. Laura B.. William A.. 1Jrsul;~ ancl John. This laclv cliecl in
I 675, ageh thirtyeight years. 1; IS76 he lllarriecl Miss Susan, :laughter
of Barnabas Frail, to whom t\vo chilclren were horn: James T. and
Jennie E. This lady is a mernber of the Catholic church, while Mr.
Jackson is liberal in religious matters. Politically he is a Democrat.
( Vide sketc7~ of F~c6iZ tfczrn.ily.)
Levi Johnson, a, native of New Yorlc, was boim October 13, 1769.
He followed the occupation of a mill\vri~l~t. Ile married IIannail -
Buss, who was born December IS, 1770. l er father, Abra,li:~,n~ Ttuss,
was murderecl by the Intlians on the Allegheny river, Maarch 2, 1790.
IIe (Levi ~ohnsoh) was tile fa'ther of five children, three boys and two
girls. Henry, the eldest of these, was born January 9, 1793. He
learned his fiither7s tracle. When he was about seventeen pears of age
he reinovecl to Kentucky with his parents. enlisted (luring the mar of
1812, but on account of a wouncl on his arm caused by the slipping of
a hand ax, he was rejected. On Marc11 28, 1810, he married BLilary,
daughter of A~naziah Davitlson, born in Kentucky, Septenlber 14,1799.
Her parents were Scotcl~ who came to ~inerick and settled in Kentucky,
as companions of Daniel Boone. In 1827, Mr. Johnson wit11 his
mife settled in Pike county, Ill., but on account of the troul~leso~~le
Indians they were conlpelled to return to KentucBy. In 1830 they
braved the "clangers of a Frontier life and returned tlo Pike county,
where he followetl his trade of millwright. Here on September 11,
1546, Mrs. Johnson died in her forty-seventh year. In 1851 Mr. Johnson
settlecl near the 1 )lace where the' village of Sparland, Marshall
county, now stands. In IS65 he came to Stark county, where 11e (lied
September 17, 1878, in the eighty-sixth pear of his age.
A. J. fi~hi,hlisoqz, son of Henry and Mary (Daridson) Johnson, was
born in Cham bersburgh township, Pike county, Ill., October 23, 1833.
He is of Irish descent, his paternal ancestors coming to America priola
to the time of the Revoiution ancl settling in New Tork. Andrew J. is
the eighth child of their family of eleven children. In 1854 he married