Person:John Johnson (366)

Will Abstract

John Johnston's Will, dated March 1826, Pocahontas County, Virginia, signed by James Ewing, Mary Brock, and Elizabeth Johnson names the following heirs:

1) Elizabeth Johnson (This is Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge Johnson) - Elizabeth received the house, furniture, cattle, sorrel mare and the sows. Elizabeth also received most of the land.

2) John Johnson (son of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge) - John received a large tract of land.

3) Elizabeth Waugh (daughter of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge, married to Jacob Waugh) - Elizabeth (daughter) is to receive 2 shares of the land given to wife Elizabeth at the time of the wife's death.

4) Sarah Ewing (daughter of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge, married to William Ewing) - Sarah is to receive one share of the land given to wife Elizabeth at the time of the wife's death.)

5) Jane Lamb (daughter of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge, married to Alexander Lamb) - Jane is to receive one share of the land given to wife Elizabeth at the time of the wife's death.

6) Katherine Moore ( daughter of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge married to Aaron Moore) - Katherine is to receive 1 share of the land given to wife Elizabeth at the time of the wife's death.

7) Mary Gay (daughter of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge, married to William Gay) - Mary is to receive one share of the land given to wife Elizabeth at the time of the wife's death.

8) James Johnson (son of John Johnson and Mary Ewing) - James is to receive one dollar and sixty-seven cents out of John Johnson's estate.

9) Thomas Johnson (son of John Johnston and Elizabeth Tillison Auldridge) - Thomas is to receive one dollar and sixty-seven cents out of John Johnson's estate.

John Johnson's estate was not settled until 1835 and payments were still being made up till 1840. So it would seem that it was tied up in court for a while. Note: Thomas may be son of John Johnston & Mary Ewing.

Source: Ancestry Message Boards

Notes

A familysearch submission claims that John Johnson married 1) Unknown Ewing and 2) Elizabeth (Tillotson) Auldridge.

Information on John Johnson

JOHN SHARP John Sharp, son of Wm. Jr. and grandson of Wm. Sr., married Sarah Johnson on June 3, 1845. Sarah was the daughter of William Johnson (b. 1799) who married Mary Lamb in 1818. Sarah also had a sister Susan who married Marcus Waugh. Later Marcus & Susan's daughter Mary Jane was to marry John & Sarah's son Hugh Hanson Sharp. William Johnson was the son of James Johnson & Elizabeth Hughes who married in 1795. James Johnson was the son of Pocahontas Pioneer, John Johnson (1734-1826) whose wife was thought to be a daughter of yet another famed Pocahontas Pioneer James Ewing. Ewing decendants & their many allied families migrated from Pocahontas County in the early 1800s to Gallia County Ohio, where decendants are credited with establishing the towns of Vinton and Ewington. James (John?) Johnson's Ewing wife died relatively young, leaving him with seven children. James (John) Johnson employed Elizabeth Auldridge as a governess to care for his children and later they were married. Elizabeth was a widow who came to America with her 10-yr. old son William Tilson Auldridge, with James Johnson having advertised and paid for their passage. Most Auldridges in Pocahontas County can trace their ancestry to William T. Auldridge. Elizabeth lived to be 114 years old and was buried in an old cemetery on Jerico Road (believed to be where the old rock quarry is located).