Alton Maurice Johnson

Alton Maurice Johnson

Male 1907 - 1982  (74 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Alton Maurice JohnsonAlton Maurice Johnson was born 17 Sep 1907, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States (son of Snellen Ichabod Johnson and Genevieve Sprouse, son of Snellen Ichabod Johnson and Genevieve Sprouse); died 9 Mar 1982, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    Alton married . [Group Sheet]

    Alton married Living [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Living
    2. Wallace Royce Johnson was born 10 Jan 1944, Ballard, Unitah, Utah, USA; died 2 Jun 2004, Orlando, Orange, Florida, USA; was buried , Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach, California, USA.
    3. Living
    4. Living
    5. Stanley Lynn Johnson was born 24 Jun 1951, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah, USA; died 31 Mar 2004, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA; was buried 5 Apr 2004, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA.
    6. Living
    7. Living
    8. Living

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Snellen Ichabod JohnsonSnellen Ichabod Johnson was born 3 Sep 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA (son of John Lycurgus Johnson and Cora Isabella Davis); died 28 May 1939, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Notes:

    Harriet P. W. Young - http://books.google.com/books?id=AnBIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=%22snellen+Johnson%22&source=bl&ots=pNmmpNw5p6&sig=Kxn1RcEb_lPpDIr0_2pOGyygArI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xqdbVJXWJtGYyASAwICIAw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=%22snellen%20Johnson%22&f=false

    Snellen married Genevieve Sprouse. Genevieve (daughter of Baylus Earl Sprouse and Nancy Willmirth Johnson) was born 9 Dec 1877, Montezuma, Summit City, Colorado, USA; died 6 Aug 1952, Montabello, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Genevieve SprouseGenevieve Sprouse was born 9 Dec 1877, Montezuma, Summit City, Colorado, USA (daughter of Baylus Earl Sprouse and Nancy Willmirth Johnson); died 6 Aug 1952, Montabello, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    Children:
    1. 1. Alton Maurice Johnson was born 17 Sep 1907, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 9 Mar 1982, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John Lycurgus JohnsonJohn Lycurgus Johnson was born 25 Aug 1844, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA (son of Willis F. Johnson and Nancy Reddick Greer); died 29 Jun 1908, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 1 Jul 1908, Rockpoint Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Other Events:

    • Lived: Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; from 1855 to after 1860
    • Lived: Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; from the mid 1860's to 1870
    • Lived: Washington County, Texas, USA; until 9 years old

    Notes:

    "Lycurgus "Curg" Johnson was a Texan whose family had migrated to Bear Lake, Idaho. In 1878 LDS Church officials asked the Johnson clan to resettle in Ashley Valley. Besides operating several businesses in the valley, Johnson also served as the first elected sheriff of Uintah County, a selectman and a deputy U.S. Marshal. He represented the county in the 1890 territorial assemble, attended the Constitutional Convention in 1894 and was elected Vernal City mayor in 1905. Johnson also served as Ashley's second postmaster.1 "Johnson, a well-known entrepreneur opened a general merchandise store with two of his sons, Alfred and Snellen." About 1880 he purchased the Hatch store in Ashley Center, located on the southeast corner of the town's main intersection. He also owned and operated a flour mill, which he built in 1885...2 and one in Maeser in 1888.4 "In the fall of 1893 the Uintah Milling & Flume company was founded by Dry Fork and Ashley Valley water users. The company was begun with $26,000 in their coffers" and with Lycurgus Johnson as president.3

    1 Burton, Doris Karren, Settlements of Uintah County: Digging Deeper, Uintah County Library, 1998, p. 41.
    2 Ibid., p. 39.
    3 Ibid., p. 158.
    4 Ibid., p. 189.
    2 Ibid., p. 39.



    Pioneers and prominent men of Utah by Frank Ellwood Esshom, page 149:

    JOHNSON, JOHN LYCURGUS (son of Willis Johnson and
    Nancy Greer of Brennen, Tex.). Born Aug. 25, 1844, Brennen.
    Came to Utah in 1854.

    Married Cora Isabella Davis March 1, 1867, at St. Charles,
    Idaho (daughter of Nathan Cutler Davis and Isabella
    Wells, Bolton, Warren county, N. Y., pioneers to Utah Oct.
    1857 with John Smith company). She was born Oct. 25,
    1847, Bolton, N. Y. Came to Utah Oct. 1857. Their chil-
    dren: Willis Lycurgus b. March 18, 1869, d. child; James
    Warren b. Oct. 25, 1870, m. Minerva Wilkins; Nathan b.
    April 2, 1872, d. infant; Alfred N. b. April 2, 1872, m. Mary
    De Freeze; Snellen b. Sept. 3, 1874, m. Genevieve Sprouse;
    Eugene b. Feb. 28, 1876, d. child; Le Roy b. Sept. 18, 1877,
    d. child; Clarence Irwin b. March 23, 1879. m. Ada May
    Rich; Nancy Pearl b. April 16. 1881, m. Brigham Chris-
    tensen; Cora Myrtle b. April 21, 1883, m. Edward Harvey
    Belcher; Hazel b. Sept. 23, 1886.

    High priest; high councilor; ward teacher. Settled at
    St. Charles, Idaho, In 1864; moved to Vernal, Utah, 1879.
    Delegate to state constitutional convention; member of
    state legislature in 1898; United States marshal several
    years; county sheriff; county commissioner; mayor of the
    city; school trustee. Farmer.

    John married Cora Isabella Davis 1 Mar 1867, Saint Charles, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States. Cora (daughter of Nathan Cutler Davis and Isabella Wells) was born 25 Oct 1847, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 10 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 13 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Cora Isabella DavisCora Isabella Davis was born 25 Oct 1847, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA (daughter of Nathan Cutler Davis and Isabella Wells); died 10 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 13 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Notes:

    Lycurgus Johnson was born in Brennam, Washington County, Texas, August 25, 1844 to Nancy Reddick Greer and Willis Johnson. His father died when Lycurgus was about 8 years old. Mormon missionaries converted his mother and some of his older siblings in 1854 and the next year most of the family traveled by wagon to Salt Lake, Utah. Lycurgus lived with his mother, brother Alfred, sisters Victoria and Nancy, and cousin Adeline York in the Greater Salt Lake 6th Ward until after 1860. The family then moved to the Bear Lake area of northern Utah and lived there for about 10 years. Lycurgus married Cora Isabella Davis 1 March 1867 and had their first child Willis Lycurgus in St. Charles, Idaho on the northwest end of Bear Lake. The family moved to the south end of Bear Lake and there Willis died in September 1870. The couple had seven children in the Bear Lake area but only Warren, Alfred, and Snellen lived past the age of 2. Lycurgus was appointed Constable of the Lake Precinct of Rich County on August 1, 1870. Having been asked by Church leaders, in 1878 they moved along with his brother Alfred Summers Johnson, Joseph Hardy Sr., and Allen Davis families to Ashley Valley or the area of present day Vernal, Utah. Nancy Reddick Greer Johnson Sprouse, the mother of Lycurgus, was killed in a tragic accident on the way to Ashley Valley. In 1879 excitement with the Indians forced families to move their cabins to Ashley Town which was located 2.5 miles northwest of Vernal. Lycurgus was about 35 years old at this time. He opened one of the first stores in Ashley Town. He became the second postmaster of the valley in September 1879 and was also elected the first sheriff on August 2, 1880 and served for two terms. He served three terms as Selectman, 1882 to 1888 while acting as Deputy United States Marshal. Four children were born in Ashley Town including Clarence, Nancy, Cora and Hazel. They lived in Ashley Town for nine years. Lycurgus built the 2nd flour mill in Ashley Valley in 1885 which operated for over 20 years. After 7 years he finished building the ?Rock House? in 1888 from large stones cut from Ashley Canyon. The home stood on 19 acres complete with excellent irrigation and built close to the flour mill. The family then moved to Maeser and lived there for twenty years. He moved his store from Ashley Town to Vernal and sold general merchandise and furniture under the name L. Johnson & Sons as all his sons participated in his business ventures. Lycurgus represented Ashley Valley in the Territorial Assembly in 1890 and also in the Constitutional Convention in 1894 and became one of the 99 signers of the Utah constitution in 1895. In the late 1890?s Lycurgus won vast contracts including duty to supply the government with wood at $3.50 per cord and 80,000 pounds of bran at $1.30 per hundred. He was appointed the general contractor for the building of the Stake Tabernacle in Vernal in 1900 and completed that work in 1907. In 1905 Lycurgus was elected Mayor of Vernal and filled the office January 2, 1906. By the end of this life he had acquired considerable real estate and wealth through vast enterprises including commerce, stock, water interests, and mining. He died June 29, 1908 and is buried at the Rockpoint Cemetery in Vernal.

    Children:
    1. Willis Lycurgus Johnson was born 18 Mar 1869, St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, USA; died 14 Sep 1870.
    2. James Warren Johnson was born 25 Oct 1870, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 22 Jun 1905, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    3. Nathan Johnson was born 2 Apr 1872, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 15 Mar 1873, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA.
    4. Alfred Nathaniel Johnson was born 2 Apr 1872, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 19 Jun 1958, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    5. 2. Snellen Ichabod Johnson was born 3 Sep 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 28 May 1939, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    6. Allen Eugene Johnson was born 28 Feb 1876, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 15 Mar 1876, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA.
    7. LeRoy "Roy" Johnson was born 18 Sep 1877, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; died 20 Apr 1879; was buried , Rockpoint Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    8. Clarence Irwin Johnson was born 23 Mar 1879, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 8 Jan 1958, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    9. Nancy Pearl Johnson was born 16 Apr 1881, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 21 Jan 1946, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    10. Cora Myrtle Johnson was born 21 Apr 1883, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 13 Mar 1948, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.
    11. Hazel Johnson was born 23 Sep 1886, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 17 Nov 1918, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

  3. 6.  Baylus Earl SprouseBaylus Earl Sprouse was born 6 Aug 1837, Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; was christened , Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States (son of John Sprouse and Catherine Ann Hundley); died 29 May 1915, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA; was buried 30 Mar 1915, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Notes:

    BAYLISS SPROUSE OBITUARY, Vernal Express 2 Apr 1915

    Bayliss Sprouse was born in Texas August sixth, 1831;

    He came to Utah during the early fifties and engaged in the activities of pioneer life.

    Among other labors, he made several trips back across the plains to the Missouri after immigrants and was one of the rescuers of the ill-fated hand-cart companies.

    Under Captain Wm. Kimball, he served as a militia man during the Utah Black Hawk Indian War.

    He married Nancy Wilmouth Johnson, a sister of Lycurgus and Alfred Johnson, and this union was blessed with eight children whose names follow: Willis and Nancy Mitchell, dead; Bayliss ?Jake? Sprouse, Jas. Sprouse of Roosevelt, Mrs. Genevieve Johnson of Vernal, Mrs.Cora Mullins and Mrs, Burnetta Ross of Lapoint, living.

    His entire life was spent on the fringe of civilization. He was devoted to the labor of a pioneer. In youth he assisted in the settlement of Salt Lake City, Cedar City, Iron County and Rich County in Utah. San Luis valley in Colorado, and last of all, he established the first store in the Deep Creek district of the Reservation.

    Until about three years ago, he was actively engaged in business, though he lived to the ripe old age of seventy-nine years. As a citizen he was honorable, upright and progressive.

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    Death Notice: Vernal Express 2 Apr 1915

    One of our honored citizens, one of the Empire Builders of the West, passed to the Great Beyond in the demise of ?Grandpa? Bayliss Sprouse.

    His death occurred last Monday at Provo, Utah. The remains were brought to Lapoint Thursday. The funeral was held Friday, and interment was made in the family lot in the Maeser Cemetery.

    Because of the active and useful life of Mr. Sprouse, a brief biographical sketch of his career will appear in the columns later.

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    VERNAL EXPRESS - 2/1/1902 in Local and Personal Column

    B. E. Sprouse, of Buena Vista, was some better yesterday. He is very low yet. The cause of his sickness is uremic poisoning.

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    VERNAL EXPRESS - 3/8/1902

    Mr. Baylus Sprouse is still confined to his bed, and his wife also is dangerously ill.

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    Vernal Express - 3/22/1902

    Mrs. Nancy W. Sprouse, wife of Baylus Sprouse of Millward, died Thursday morning at 7:30 a,m, of inflammation of the bowels, after an illness of fourteen days. The deceased was sixty years of age, lacking a few days. The family have lived in the Valley since 1893, coming from Colorado, but had previously lived in Utah.

    The funeral services are to be at the Millward Hall today at 10:00.

    Baylus married Nancy Willmirth Johnson 2 Feb 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Nancy (daughter of Willis F. Johnson and Nancy Reddick Greer) was born 22 Nov 1841, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA; died 13 Mar 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 15 Mar 1902, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Nancy Willmirth JohnsonNancy Willmirth Johnson was born 22 Nov 1841, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA (daughter of Willis F. Johnson and Nancy Reddick Greer); died 13 Mar 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 15 Mar 1902, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Notes:

    The Sarah Allday suit listed Nancy name as Nancy A. Johnson.

    Children:
    1. 3. Genevieve Sprouse was born 9 Dec 1877, Montezuma, Summit City, Colorado, USA; died 6 Aug 1952, Montabello, Los Angeles, California, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Willis F. Johnson was born 1 May 1806, North Carolina, USA (son of Snellen Johnson and Mary Foreman); died 20 Dec 1853, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA; was buried 22 Dec 1853, DeWitt, Texas, USA.

    Notes:

    Lafayette was the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama from 1833 to present. Originally known as Chambersville, name changed to Lafayette in 1835. Incorporated in 1835. Post office established in 1875.

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    Cemetery notes and/or description:
    Description: An old cemetery - the later portion (German) is tended, the older Anglo-Saxon side is overgrown. About 2.5 miles ENE of Greenvine on a gravel road. There are 55 to 60 grave spaces indicated by brick or rock surrounds or rock markers with no legible information on them.

    The following article is excerpted from the Historical Marker application, written circa 1991:

    Bethlehem Cemetery in south Washington County, Texas, is a cemetery containing persons and their family members who were among the very first Anglo-American settlers to Stephen F. Austin's colony, the "old three hundred". The Allcorn (sometimes spelled Alcorn) family, who have family members in this cemetery, were the second Anglo family to arrive in present Washington County spending the last night of 1821 by a creek they subsequently named with dawn, "New Year's Creek".

    Bethlehem Cemetery is located on five and three-fourths acres of the original Josiah Lester League in Washington County, a headright league granted to Lester by the Mexican government and later conveyed by him to Erwin Brown. It was Erwin Brown, in turn, who conveyed the five and three-fourths acre parcel on August 13, 1851, to the trustees of the Bethlehem Academy for the purpose of a settlement school and house of worship for the Baptist and Methodist denominations. The first trustees receiving the deed were James C. Crenshaw, James Lane, Leander Burns, Willis Johnson, and I. M. Harris.

    The site soon also became a "burial place for the neighborhood", as cited in an officially recorded agreement signed April 14, 1873, between the Bethlehem trustees and one J. E. Gray for erecting a fence around the cemetery. The first burial for which there is an extant marker was that of Susan J. Burdett, age 39, who died in 1852 (though Henry Burdett, age about 65, may have died earlier; his tombstone gives only his age and not date of death).

    Little Rufus Mallets, one of the earliest burials with an extant headstone, appears on the 1860 mortality census (1859 deaths): he died of the "flux" in November, 1859, at the age of one. Also on that mortality census were members of the Armstrong, Crenshaw, Barnhill, Woods, Bowers and Sanders families--- most of them infants, who may have been buried without headstones in many cases. It is a sad commentary on the infant mortality rate of the day to read that census.

    Bethlehem Cemetery is now a beautiful, spacious, old (and new) cemetery, located on the very top of a high rolling hill that overlooks the Mill Creek valley, home to the earliest of the Anglo-Texans settlers. Some of these earliest of settlers belonged within one lifetime to the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America-and some a second time to the United States of America.

    Today the cemetery is in a remarkably attractive condition. Several plots are enclosed still by their original wrought iron fences, standing guard after all these years. The feeling of the cemetery is one of quiet, rural peace and endurance. The cemetery was restored by a group of citizens banded together at nearby Greenvine Lutheran Church March 6, 1988. Donations were taken at this first meeting and one man hired to rid the site of the major obstructions. Then citizens literally lined up shoulder to shoulder and cut their way into the jungle with chain saws. A couple of years prior to that some persons crawling through the brambles, briars, and brush, and snake holes, seeking an ancestor's tombstone, were trapped and got out only by tearing up clothes and skin-the older part of the cemetery had gotten to that state. After the chain saw crews' attack, men, women and children followed up against the brush, weeds, and trash, carefully working around the old tombstones and iron fences. Anyone viewing the cemetery today will have a hard time imagining what it was like three years ago.

    The Bethlehem Cemetery group makes this application to the state of Texas for a historical marker for following reasons: this is, no doubt one of the more historical cemeteries of the state, both for its location and for the pioneers buried in it; these pioneers gave so much to the Republic and to the state that they are deserving of respect and perpetual remembrance; and a historical marker will contribute toward protecting this site from future neglect and any future vandalism. Present day and future citizens need to know who built this state and where its origins lie; and they need occasionally to stop and visit these peoples graves in this lovely place. Bethlehem Cemetery is today part of what remains of colonial Texas.

    Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSln=Doerntge&GSiman=1&GScid=2383&CRid=2383&pt=Bethlehem%20Cemetery&

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    Wharton County, Texas (979) 532-2381
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    No records of Willis Johnson from 1845-1900. Researched 10/14/2013

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    Yorktown Public Library - 103 West Main, Yorktown, Texas 78164
    (361) 564-3232
    yplbeth@yahoo.com
    ***Nothing as far back as 1850s***

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    Yorktown Historical Museum
    144 West Main
    Yorktown, TX 78164
    (361) 564-9115

    Has old tax records that haven't been indexed

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    Milam County Courthouse and all county records were destroyed by fire in April 1874.

    Willis married Nancy Reddick Greer Abt 1825. Nancy (daughter of John D. Greer and Sarah "Sallie" Hunt) was born 9 Aug 1805, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; was buried 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Nancy Reddick GreerNancy Reddick Greer was born 9 Aug 1805, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA (daughter of John D. Greer and Sarah "Sallie" Hunt); died 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA; was buried 9 Oct 1878, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA.

    Notes:

    James McGaw was an early LDS missionary in Texas in 1848 to the Dallas area of Texas. In 1851 he may have been in Grimes County (borders Washington County) and may have converted the Sprouses. Washington Lafayette Jolley was the caption of the company that left Texas in 1854 to Utah.

    Edward W. East mentions Preston Thomas as a missionary in Port Sullivan, Texas and he KEEP A JOURNAL. Preston Thomas was a captain of a wagon train leaving Texas in 1856.

    An 1848 missionary companion of James McGaw was William Martindale.

    See: http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/19911/First-LDS-bishop-in-Idaho-a-pioneer-for-gospels-sake.html


    Preston Thomas's March 14, 1849 letter to Orson Hyde mentions that a number of interesting fact:
    - Preston Thomas and William Martindale meet James McGaw at Weston, Missouri (on the Mississippi River)
    - Preston Thomas visits is brother Daniel Claiborne Thomas at his home in Burton, Texas (8 miles from Brenham)
    - Martindale and McGaw baptized 5 persons east of Burton in the Brazos River (FIND NAMES).
    - Preston Thomas baptized a young man in Washington County before going to the settlements on the Guadalupe River to preach.


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    Seth M. Blair Journal Entry September 12, 1854 "Sept. 12th Br Me today baptized Jas. Johnson bro of Br S.M. Johnson who was converted by the Lord through my preaching -

    13th Today blessed 9 children and baptized 5 - Sarah East (RB) James Sharp, Nancy Johnson and Margarett and Adeline Jones - thus the Lord has blessed his servant and now raised up a church of 24 members with the 9 children blessed no 34 members of the church in this place some of whom are enjoying the gifts etc - for which I pray the Lord to accept the grattitude of his servants _____ to _____ increase the work." (pages 45-46)


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    Washington Lafayette Jolley and John Osler were probably the first Mormon missionaries that the Johnson family encountered in 1852(per "Reminiscences of E. W. East).

    Henry G. Moyle was probably another early missionary.

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    According to the Johnson-Greer-Davis Connection book "After John’s death Nancy was back with her clan ready to strike the trail when the call came from President Brigham Young to go to southern Idaho and northern Utah." John Sprouse died 27 Oct 1858 and on the 27th of June 1860 Nancy is still in the 6th Ward in SLC according to the 1860 census. We don't have record of Nancy north of SLC until the 1870 census.

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    1851 Missionary James McGaw arrives in Texas

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    1852 John Brown, Preston Thomas, Washington Jolley and William Camp are called to serve missions in Texas.

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    1854 William C. Martindale arrived in Texas.

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    "The Community of Laketown has always maintained a belief in the value of formal education. The first organized school was held in 1869, and conducted by Nancy Greer Johnson, three months out of the year. Later, around 1876, a bright, well educated young man, Robert Spence, came to Laketown and began teaching."

    Source: Laketown Master Plan December 2007, page 7,http://laketownutah.com/uploads/master_plan.pdf

    Children:
    1. Sarah Ann Johnson was born 9 Aug 1827, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 28 Apr 1916, Owensville, Robertson, Texas, USA; was buried , Owensville Cemetery, Owensville, Robertson, Texas, USA.
    2. Snellen Marion "Cub" Johnson was born 27 Oct 1827, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 10 Jun 1900, Lonetree, Uinta, Wyoming, USA; was buried 12 Jun 1900, Johnson Cemetery, Uinta County, Wyoming, USA.
    3. Mary Willmirth Johnson was born Abt 1832, Chambers County, Alabama, USA; died 21 Jun 1855, Kansas, USA; was buried Jun 1855, Mormon Grove, Kansas, United States.
    4. Alfred Summers Johnson, Sr. was born 14 Sep 1835, Chambers County, Alabama, USA; died 23 Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Aug 1891, Vernal, Uintah, Utah Territory, United States.
    5. James A Johnson was born 13 Oct 1837, Hillsboro, Jasper, Georgia, USA; died 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA; was buried 1874, Laketown, Rich, Utah, USA.
    6. Hanna Victoria Johnson was born 13 Oct 1839, Autauga County, Alabama, USA; died 13 Apr 1903, Manassa, Conejos, Colorado, USA; was buried Apr 1903, Manassa, Conejos, Colorado, USA.
    7. 7. Nancy Willmirth Johnson was born 22 Nov 1841, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA; died 13 Mar 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 15 Mar 1902, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    8. 4. John Lycurgus Johnson was born 25 Aug 1844, Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA; died 29 Jun 1908, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 1 Jul 1908, Rockpoint Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    9. Willis Leonidas Johnson was born 1846, San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas, USA; was buried 1856.

  3. 10.  Nathan Cutler DavisNathan Cutler Davis was born 29 Aug 1816, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA (son of Ichabod Johnson Davis and Lydia Cutler); died 7 Aug 1900, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Aug 1900, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

    Nathan married Isabella Wells 16 Nov 1840, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA. Isabella (daughter of Reverand George Benjamin Wells and Rebecca Greene) was born 19 Feb 1823, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 1 Feb 1896, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Feb 1896, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Isabella WellsIsabella Wells was born 19 Feb 1823, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA (daughter of Reverand George Benjamin Wells and Rebecca Greene); died 1 Feb 1896, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried Feb 1896, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    Children:
    1. Allen Wells Davis was born 10 Dec 1841, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 6 May 1923, Dutchess, Dutchess, New York, USA; was buried 10 May 1923, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    2. 5. Cora Isabella Davis was born 25 Oct 1847, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 10 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 13 Feb 1926, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    3. Lydia Rebecca Davis was born 15 Aug 1850, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 6 May 1932, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 9 May 1932, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
    4. Hulda Louisa Davis was born 11 Jul 1859, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; died 16 Dec 1859, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA; was buried Dec 1859, Bolton, Warren, New York, USA.
    5. Julia Ellen Davis was born 7 Feb 1862, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; died 28 Oct 1904, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 30 Oct 1904, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.

  5. 12.  John Sprouse was born 2 Apr 1802, Union, Union, South Carolina, USA (son of Vincent Sprouse Jr. and Elizabeth Earl); died 27 Oct 1858, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA.

    John married Catherine Ann Hundley 6 Jan 1835, Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States. Catherine (daughter of Living and Elizabeth Brown) was born 9 May 1820, Noxubee County, Mississippi, USA; died Abt. 1851, Montgomery, Grimes, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]


  6. 13.  Catherine Ann Hundley was born 9 May 1820, Noxubee County, Mississippi, USA (daughter of Living and Elizabeth Brown); died Abt. 1851, Montgomery, Grimes, Texas, USA.
    Children:
    1. 6. Baylus Earl Sprouse was born 6 Aug 1837, Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; was christened , Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; died 29 May 1915, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA; was buried 30 Mar 1915, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.