The Nehemiah Johnson Home Page - NC/TN/AL/MS/TX
Nehemiah Johnson 1784 - I'm looking for anything I can find on him - before or after his b date. I am also researching Templeton and their connection to him. Other names include Bigham, Braden, Dyer, Harris, Hampton, Grisham, Hughes, Jenkins, Stapp, Wade,.... Reformed Presbyterian Marriages and Deaths, 1866-88 Viewing records 1-1 of 1 Matches A recently OBIT found on Nehemiah: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices Volume II: 1866-1888 Compiled by Lowry Ware Scmar Columbia, South Carolina 1998 Died on Saturday, April 4th, 1868 near Ellistown, Lee Co., Miss., Nehemiah Johnson, in the eighty fifth year of his age. …born in Iredell Co., N. C., January 1, 1784, and in his youth joined one of the Associate Reformed churches of that country, but I [Rev. S. A. Agnew] am not able to state which one. He loved to talk of those olden times and sainted ministers. The son with whom he was living at the time of his death is named William Blackstocks in honor of one of the fathers of the Associate Reformed church. Mr. Johnson was married to Ann Templeton, September 26, 1809. In the fall of 1810, he left N. C. and removed to what was then called Mississippi Territory, and settled within nine miles of the present site of Huntsville, Ala. During his residence there he served as a soldier for three months in the Indian War of 1812. In the year 1817, he moved south of the Tennessee River into Lawrence County, Ala. Here in 1820, he joined the Methodist church, and here, too, on October 2d, 1834, his wife died. Like her husband, she was reared and had become a member of the Associate Reformed church in North Carolina. In 1835, he moved to Fayette County, Ala where he remained until 1841, when he went to Greene County, Ala In 1850, he came to Pontotoc Co., Miss., and became a member of the Hebron Presbyterian church. In 1860, he came within the bounds of Hopewell and was rejoiced to find an ecclesiastical organization similar to the one in which he had been reared long years ago. The Psalms sounded sweetly in his ears, and he seemed to be greatly delighted with the services of the sanctuary. He united with the church and his walk and conversation were such as becometh the Gospel. For several years after leaving N. C., Mr. Johnson refused to join any church, because none of those to which he had access accorded with his views. “Finding,” to use his own language, “that living out of the church was not favorable to a religious life,” he pursued a different policy and first connected himself with the Methodist church and subsequently with the Presbyterians. | The Nehemiah Johnson Home Page - NC/TN/AL/MS/TX Updated November 28, 2002 |
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