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From: "Charles A. Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Morris Johnson
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:50:06 -0500


Hi,

there is a Harley Johnson who retired as school supt. at Abbott, Texas,
Hill County, (Willie Nelson's childhood home) and Harley has returned
out of retirement to Penelope School Dist., Hill county, Texas. He lives
in Hillsboro, but he grew up in Mooreville, Bell County, Texas. Bob
Johnson, my Sunday School teacher, is his brother. Bob said they were
sharecroppers in Mooreville- Eddy area

Hill County is not in what is commonly known as the Texas Hill Country,
but is on the Brazos River and Lake Whitney- some rough Texas hills and
some very fertile black land. Walter Degner of Malone- Bynum area had the
natinal record for bushels of corn per acre, including all 50 States. It
has a large Outlet mall on I-35, next to Hill College and its Confederate
Center, which honors Hood's Texas Brigade and has the Audie Murphy Gun
Museum in the front of the Col. Harold J. Simpson Confederate Research
library. This might be a good place to do family history research. Some
have had unexpectedly goofd luck in research there.

Bob is semi retired from the Atlas Portland Cement plant in Waco. No
more digging there, but they bring Mexican Gray cement there to mizx
with several years supply of Texas cement. I taught with Harley at
West, Texas when I had Industrial and Health occupation co-op students
and he had the CVAE Cooperative ed program for lower level academic
achievers. Harley is
now one of the board which writes rather liberal guest editorials for
the Waco Tribune- Herald, a Cox newspaper with Atlanta Ga. ownership.

There is another elderly Johnson next door to our daughter in Eddy, Texas
but Bob says they are not kin.(At least not enough for him to know it)
This one had a coverred wagon on car wheels which he rented out for
parties, , hayrides and such and he drove, His wife is now in the Rest
Home and he has slowed down now. He still has his mules and hortses
outside town on his farm

On Sun, 6 May 2001 20:26:22 EDT writes:
> Mr. Wyly, I wonder if you know where Morris Johnson's ancestors were
> from. My
> 3rd g-grandmother, Anny/Amey JOHNS(T)ON had a brother called Morris.
> She was
> born about 1775-1780 and lived in Edgefield Co, SC. Morris was
> older. There
> were other Morrises in the family tree, and both Morris JOHNSONs and
> Moore
> JOHNSONs (also spelled JOHNSTON) in Edgefield Co in the early 1800s.
> Their
> father was David and their mother seems to have been Rachel (surname
>
> unknown). I believe they came to Edgefield from Virginia. Lots of
> Scots in
> this area -- Anny/Amey married one whose surnamed was HAZEL.
>
> I have another line of JOHNSONs who were in Hill Co. TX in the
> 1860s. My
> g-grandfather, William Henry JOHNSON (grandmother's side of the
> family) was
> born there in March 1861. Found him, I think, on the 1870 census,
> age 9,
> with an older bro. Jeremiah, born in Ark. before the war, and a
> younger
> sister, Catherine, born after the war, and a mother, Dorean. No
> father
> listed. Mother says she was from NC. Nearest neighbors were GUSTs
> --
> (GUESTs?) also from NC. Later census records say the parents were
> born in
> AL, though.
>
> If any of these JOHNSONs sound familiar, I would love to place them
> in some
> sort of extended neighborhood and discover if they connect to any
> of the
> other JOHNSONs in Hill Co. I'd also like to find out which
> "Southern trail"
> they took to get there.
>
> Regards,
> Barbara Schenck
>
>
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