Person:Joel Johnson (9)

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Joel M (Piggy) Johnson
b.20 May 1864 Baldwin County, Alabama
d.6 Mar 1924
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m. 5 Apr 1863
  1. Joel M (Piggy) Johnson1864 - 1924
  2. Willis (Buddy) Norman Johnson1868 - 1926
  3. John (Pid) Richardson Johnson, Jr.1872 - 1953
  4. Mary Aline (Lena) Johnson1875 - 1942
  5. Mary E Johnson1886 -
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Name Joel M (Piggy) Johnson
Gender Male
Birth? 20 May 1864 Baldwin County, AlabamaRIN: MH:IF222
Marriage RIN: MH:FF83
to Isabel (Belle) Douglas
Death? 6 Mar 1924 Cause: of pneumonia RIN: MH:IF223
Burial? Johnson Cemetery, White House Fork, Baldwin County, AlabamaRIN: MH:IF354

Joel was a turpentine laborer and a farmer. In 1881, near Sibley's Mill at Bromley, He was shot in the head by a black man with a pistol. It caused him to fall off the horse he was riding and was then shot in the wrist and side. The bullet remained in his head until his death many years later. Joel's half-brother, Deputy Sheriff Abram S. "Abe" Johnson, was also killed in this shoot out.

Joel was a victim of the pneumonia/influenzia epedimic of the 1920s, along with numerious others in his family.


RIN: MH:I111

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