Person:Richardson Johnson (3)

Individual: In a taped conversation between Sarah Jane "Candy" (Rider) Johnson and Ralph Johnson in 1984, Candy has these memories of her husband Walter's grandfather, Richardson "Dick" Johnson:

"I have a faint remembrance of that old man. I don't ever remember talking to him because I was always scared of him. He was blind and wore dark glasses and a big old black hat and used a walking stick. Walter's people lived at the Mixon place, up above the [Johnson] cemetery where the Murphy's live now. We use to come to visit Mama's family in Bromley and I would get Papa to stop there on the way to get some water from the bored well that belonged to Walter's family. I would pretend that I wanted water. They had crepe myrtle trees there that were in bloom and I was always crazy about flowers. I would want a bouquet of those flowers and Walter's mama [Mary Jane Curry Johnson] would always tell one of the boys to go up a tree and get me some flowers, and they would. I can remember him [Walter's grandpa] sitting on that porch. He was a big old man, not fat, but strong. He was blind and some say he dressed like an Indian. I think he had about three wives. He married an Indian girl. They said she was wild and he caught her. That was Walter's grandmother...They said he hid buttermilk in a jug and drank it like water and he hung it up in a tree where the Johnson Cemetery is. You know he owned all that land, from that creek down there nearly back to Bay Minette. That's how all them Johnson's got there tracts of land, it was left to them by him...They said he went meet the boat down here for a bale of flour and they made a mistake and gave him sugar instead. He put it over his shoulders and walked back to Whitehouse. When he got home he discovered it was sugar, not flour, so he put it back over his shoulders and took it all the way back to the boat. They say he was a mighty man and strong."

In the same conversation Ralph Johnson says, "I can't remember if Papa [Andrew Jackson Johnson] told me this or not, but somebody told me that Grandpa Dick Johnson was a cow rustler over about Orange, Texas. The law got after him and he had to run so he came down here to Old Blakeley. I went to see Howard Henderson and he said he had heard that also."Patrick Byrne, Judge of Probate, married them.C. W. Wilkins, Judge of Probate, married them.

Pioneer of the majority of the Johnsons who reside in White House Fork and Crossroads, located in Baldwin County, Alabama. Richardson "Dick" Johnson came to Baldwin County, Alabama in the 1850s.

1860 Baldwin Co Census shows as household 548, Scarboro Melvin is 535, Augustus Labonte is 239

1860 > ALABAMA > BALDWIN > NO TWP LISTED

Series: M653 Roll: 1 Page: 264

Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year

685/548

JOHNSON RICHARDSON 36 M W GA AL BALDWIN NO TWP LISTED 1860 Occupation Overseer, Can't Read & write M J, 31, F, AL, Can't read & write Christopher, 16, M, AL Olive 14, F, AL Mary, 13, F, AL Abbe, 11, F, AL James, 10, M, MS Monroe, 9, M, AR Thomas, 5, M, AL Catherine, 3, F, AL Annette, 2, F, AL McCarty, Flanmire?, 25, M, Boatman, born SC

1880 > ALABAMA > BALDWIN > SIBLEYS MILL

Series: T9 Roll: 1 Page: 183 Johnson, Richarson, W, M, 60, Laborer, Disibility-Sciatica, Born AL, Father GA, Mother NC Marion, W, F, 46 , Keeps house, Self & parents born AL Joel, W, M, 16, Laborer, AL Willis, W, M, 12, At Home, AL Richardson Jr, W, M, 8, AL Mary E, W, F, 4, AL

RIN: MH:I109

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   Individual:
   In a taped conversation between Sarah Jane "Candy" (Rider) Johnson and Ralph Johnson in 1984, Candy has these memories of her husband Walter's grandfather, Richardson "Dick" Johnson:
   
   "I have a faint remembrance of that old man. I don't ever remember talking to him because I was always scared of him. He was blind and wore dark glasses and a big old black hat and used a walking stick. Walter's people lived at the Mixon place, up above the [Johnson] cemetery where the Murphy's live now. We use to come to visit Mama's family in Bromley and I would get Papa to stop there on the way to get some water from the bored well that belonged to Walter's family. I would pretend that I wanted water. They had crepe myrtle trees there that were in bloom and I was always crazy about flowers. I would want a bouquet of those flowers and Walter's mama [Mary Jane Curry Johnson] would always tell one of the boys to go up a tree and get me some flowers, and they would. I can remember him [Walter's grandpa] sitting on that porch. He was a big old man, not fat, but strong. He was blind and some say he dressed like an Indian.
   I think he had about three wives. He married an Indian girl. They said she was wild and he caught her. That was Walter's grandmother...They said he hid buttermilk in a jug and drank it like water and he hung it up in a tree where the Johnson Cemetery is. You know he owned all that land, from that creek down there nearly back to Bay Minette. That's how all them Johnson's got there tracts of land, it was left to them by him...They said he went meet the boat down here for a bale of flour and they made a mistake and gave him sugar instead. He put it over his shoulders and walked back to Whitehouse. When he got home he discovered it was sugar, not flour, so he put it back over his shoulders and took it all the way back to the boat. They say he was a mighty man and strong."
   
   In the same conversation Ralph Johnson says, "I can't remember if Papa [Andrew Jackson Johnson] told me this or not, but somebody told me that Grandpa Dick Johnson was a cow rustler over about Orange, Texas. The law got after him and he had to run so he came down here to Old Blakeley. I went to see Howard Henderson and he said he had heard that also."Patrick Byrne, Judge of Probate, married them.C. W. Wilkins, Judge of Probate, married them.