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THE JOHNSTONS 
 
 OF 
 
 SALISBURY. 
 
 WITH A BRIEF SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 CONCERNING THE 
 
 HANCOCK, STROTHER AND PRESTON FAMILIES. 
 
 1897. 
 
 Compiled by Wm. Preston Johnston. 
 
 PRESS OF 
 
 L,. Graham & Son, Ltd., New Orleans. 
 1S97. 
 
copyright, 1897. 
 Wm. Preston Johnston. 
 
THIS 
 
 FAMILY RECORD 
 
 IS 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 TO 
 
 COLONEL J, STODDARD JOHNSTON, 
 
 AN OLD AND HONORED SCION 
 
 OF THE FAMILY STOCK, 
 
 BY THE COMPILER, 
 
 WHO HAS KNOWN HIM FROM CHILDHOOD AS A FAITHFUL FRIEND, 
 
 A GENIAL COMPANION AND A LOYAL KINSMAN, 
 
 BRAVE IN BATTLE, SAGACIOUS IN COUNSEL, 
 
 AND UNFALTERING IN EVERY PUBLIC 
 
 AND PRIVATE DUTY. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The chief purpose of this little volume is to 
 bring into ties of closer amity the scattered 
 descendants of Captain Archibald Johnston of 
 Salisbury, Conn., and especially the younger mem- 
 bers of his family. The record is often imper- 
 fect, and in some cases the writer has been unable 
 to follow out the lines ; but it is hoped that, 
 this book serving as a basis, some kinsman of a 
 more enterprising antiquarian spirit may pursue 
 them to fuller and better results. But, such as it 
 is, it is a free will offering, in that inherited feeling 
 of clanship which is condensed into the pithy 
 saying, " Blood is thicker than water." 
 
 The larger space given to some branches and to 
 certain individuals of those branches is due not to 
 the partiality of the author, but to the simple fact 
 that he knew more about them. It was harder in 
 many cases to condense the information at com- 
 mand than it was in others to exhume from a 
 neglected past a few fossil facts of kinsmen that he 
 feels sure he would have been glad to know and to 
 acknowledge. Then some lives are more memor- 
 able, as filled with important events and incidents, 
 though possibly not happier or more useful to 
 humanity, than others that have glided tranquilly 
 away leaving little trace behind. The writer will 
 be excused then, he hopes, for the larger space 
 
4 Preface. 
 
 allotted to kinsmen who have stood nearest to 
 himself. But there is another reason for this. 
 The descendants of his grandfather, Dr. John John- 
 ston, are much more numerous than all the other 
 branches put together, and, as pioneers, have 
 lived more stirring lives. 
 
 This fact has led to a change in the original plan 
 of arrangement in the volume. In a genealogical 
 record the arrangement of branches and persons by 
 a strict rule of chronological priority would seem 
 the most natural and logical, and seniority might 
 well regulate the distribution. But where so little 
 has been ascertained of some branches and so much 
 of others, it was feared this might result in confu- 
 sion. The rule has, therefore, been in some meas- 
 ure departed from. Captain Archibald Johnston's 
 other sons and descendants have been placed in 
 conformity to the rule ; but, for convenience sake, 
 the family of his third son, Dr. John Johnston 
 of Kentucky, has been reserved for the last place, 
 and there grouped. 
 
 Again, for similar reasons, the families of Dr. 
 Johnston's children are not given in order of 
 seniority, as originally intended, but the male 
 branches first. and then the female. 
 
 An apology would be due for intruding into this 
 volume the Supplement, containing in rough out- 
 line some family records of the Prestons, Strothers 
 and Hancocks, were it not that they are in direct 
 line with one of the main objects of the work. 
 The book is written, not so much for the old, who 
 will soon pass away, as for those vigorous 
 
Preface. 5 
 
 offshoots who are now budding into the joys of 
 existence. The writer knows only too well, by 
 his own experience, that small heed will be given 
 by them now to the dry details of this little book, 
 but the time will come when they will turn to it 
 with a melancholy pleasure, seeking a vicarious 
 satisfaction in the combined results of other men's 
 virtues and toil to round out their own fragment- 
 ary and possibly futile labors and sufferings. This 
 book contains not only the pedigree of his descend- 
 ants, running back to Archibald Johnston, but all 
 such genealogical data as could be obtained that 
 would enable these novices to trace back their col- 
 lateral lines, which fortunately are nearly all of 
 the best. 
 
 But it should be said that the Supplement is not 
 meant for a sufficient history of the families con- 
 tained in it ; but only in so far as they touch upon 
 the genealogy of the Johnstons of Salisbury. Very 
 copious memoirs and memoranda exist illustrating 
 their position and services to the country, and 
 those sufficiently interested will refer to them. 
 
 In carrying out his purpose, the writer has 
 been greatly aided by the inquiries and personal 
 researches of Col. J. Stoddard Johnston of Louis- 
 ville, Ky., Mr. Anthony S. Byers of Atlanta, Ga., 
 and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Elsworth of Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., without whose urgency he probably 
 would never have attempted this work. He is 
 also indebted to the late ex-Gov. A. H. Holley of 
 Connecticut, and to his beloved preceptor, Presi- 
 dent Noah Porter of Yale College ; to Mr. W. D. 
 
6 Pkeface. 
 
 Hixson, of Maysville, Ky. , and Messrs. J. 
 Truesdale and J. K. I,owrie, of Canfield, Ohio ; 
 to Mr. Richard Bruff , and to Mr. Harrison Taylor 
 McClung, of St. Paul, and other members of the 
 Johnston family, for valuable information and 
 assistance. 
 
THE JOHNSTONS OF SALISBURY. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF 
 
 CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON. 
 
 EN A VANT. 
 
BEGINNINGS. 
 
 CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON. 
 1732-1789. 
 
 A Family Record may have any one of several 
 objects. If it be a mere tribute to the self-love of 
 the people in it, then it may as well be left un- 
 written. But better motives may inspire such a 
 volume. We can all remember the Family Bible, 
 with its brief annals of past generations — " here a 
 line, there a line" — and yet how significant 
 to the survivors and successors of the almost for- 
 gotten dead! The Family Record that puts into 
 permanent form what we see in the Family Bible 
 and what we wish to see there has accomplished 
 a good work. It has drawn closer the ties of 
 kindred, reminding one that sins of omission and 
 commission may well be forgiven in view of some 
 common inherited tendency, which, from circum- 
 stances, asserts itself in one and passes by another. 
 When the sainted Wesley saw a drunkard reeling 
 along the street, he exclaimed, " But for the grace 
 of God, there goes John Wesley." In looking 
 down the lines of a common descent may not the 
 favored few humbly remember how little they owe 
 to their own strength, how much to the self-control 
 of their ancestors, and often how much to the acci- 
 
10 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 dents of fortune, and, thus admonished, lend to 
 struggling kinsmen such help at least as sympathy 
 affords ? 
 
 Whatever reasons are strongest for printing the 
 Family Record of a great and powerful connection 
 hold good and are really more potent with a little 
 group like that in the present volume. We are so 
 few. The descendants of an old Revolutionary 
 patriot, who probably lived his life on the hard 
 and narrow, but lofty, lines and principles of a 
 pioneer, a patriot and a Christian, have, in obedi- 
 ence to what seems a primitive instinct with them, 
 scattered widely over this broad land. In this 
 little book they are drawn together, sit down at a 
 common board, and acknowledge the blood-tie that 
 binds them into a fellowship of friendly feeling at 
 least. Fortunately they have for the most part 
 preserved eminently respectable and useful posi- 
 tions in their several communities and sometimes 
 have won the distinction that attends public service. 
 But it is evident throughout how much is due to 
 an inheritance from honorable, educated and intel- 
 lectual ancestors ; and, though the differences are 
 sufficiently well marked between individuals, a 
 common strain of vigor, energy, high intelligence 
 and aspiration, together with public spirit, plainly 
 runs like sap through this entire family tree. 
 
 The descendants of Archibald (sometimes in- 
 correctly spelled " Archabell " in old documents) 
 Johnston, of Salisbury Township, Connecticut, are 
 not able to trace their ancestry beyond him. He 
 was a pioneer in that section, a large landholder 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston. 11 
 
 and a man of substance and an officer in the Revo- 
 lutionary army. In the old graveyard at Lake- 
 ville, within a stone's throw of the Hotchkiss 
 School — an adjunct of Yale — a large marble head- 
 stone marks his resting place. The inscription on 
 this tombstone : 
 
 IN MEMORY OF 
 
 CAPTAIN AKCHABELL JOHNSTON, 
 
 Who Died February 14, 1789. 
 
 Aged 57 Years. 
 
 Is nearly all that remains as a memorial of our pro- 
 genitor. By his side rest his wife and his second 
 son, "Captain Daniel Johnston;" and again by 
 the latter sleeps his only son, Herman, who died 
 unmarried. All around are the gravestones of the 
 Stoddards and others, kinsmen of the first wife of 
 Archibald's second son, Dr. John Johnston, among 
 whose progeny the old family names often reappear. 
 This quiet graveyard is set in one of the most 
 charming landscapes in the United States. It lies 
 high above the little lake and the village nestling 
 on its brink, and one looks over field and forest, 
 swelling hills and smiling intervales to the back- 
 ground of the near Taconic range, while the eye is 
 filled with the sense of rural peace and happiness. 
 It is easy to see why in this busy age the tired 
 dweller of cities should seek its shades for rest. 
 But when one perceives how sternly rugged are 
 the features of the country beneath its crown 
 of beauty, its attraction for early settlers must be 
 found in more practical causes. These were, 
 
12 The Johnstons op Salisbury. 
 
 doubtless, chiefly the rich deposits of iron ore, 
 which led to a small settlement in this town about 
 1720, and to the establishment there of a forge or 
 iron works in 1738. This was subsequently known 
 as "The Johnston Iron Works;" and, at the 
 time of his death, Captain Archibald Johnston was 
 owner of this property ; but when or where he 
 obtained his interest, whether by purchase or 
 inheritance, is not known. This iron industry was 
 long a very important one, and is yet carried on 
 there. In a topographical description of North 
 America, by Thomas Pownall, London, 1776, the 
 passage given below occurs. In speaking of the 
 iron mines in New England, he refers to the 
 " famous iron works at Incram, in the Manor of 
 Levington " (Livingston ?), and adds : "There are 
 two beds of ore which supply this furnace, the one 
 in the Tachonic mountains near it, and the other 
 by Salisbury Falls, in Connecticut, about twelve 
 miles off. The Tachonic ore is richer than that 
 from the New England bed." He then gives 
 details of the cost of smelting, etc. These observa- 
 tions were made in 1754. 
 
 But whatever the attraction, Archibald Johnston 
 did not have far to come. A deed recorded in 
 Salisbury shows that in 1771 he styles himself of 
 "Oblong and Providence, New York. " Provi- 
 dence is now forgotten in New York, but Oblong, 
 or "The Oblong," is remembered as a narrow 
 strip of land along the Connecticut border. It is 
 sufficiently near — only a few miles — for Archibald 
 Johnston to have carried on business in both States 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston. 13 
 
 — in Oblong and at the iron works and his Con- 
 necticut farm. A few years later, he was thor- 
 oughly identified with Connecticut and the revolu- 
 tionary movement there; but, nevertheless, with 
 his Connecticut company, he joined the New York 
 volunteers from Duchess county, as will more fully 
 appear elsewhere. This was partly due, doubtless, 
 to the necessities of the case. 
 
 At one time, in its history, a certain James 
 Johnston owned and managed the iron works, but 
 his relationship to Archibald is not ascertained, 
 whether that of father, relative or a stranger ; 
 most probably the mention refers to his son. 
 
 All the facts known to us seem to point to Cap- 
 tain Archibald Johnston's descent from a Scotch 
 family settled in Duchess county New York. Our 
 first knowledge of him is as a person of considera- 
 ble property and influence in the civic and military 
 life of the community in which he lived. The town 
 of Salisbury, first settled about 1720, had in 1740 
 only eleven English and five Dutch families. In 
 1756, it had increased to 1 100 inhabitants ; in 1774 
 to 1980, and in 1800 to 2216. In this primitive 
 community, the pattern of a pure Democracy, he 
 was one of the leaders. He was allied by the 
 marriage of his children with the best people. His 
 son John married Mary Stoddard, daughter of 
 Josiah Stoddard, a signer of the protest against the 
 Boston port bill in 1774 ; and I^uther Stoddard, 
 ancestor of the Poet Stoddard, and a Continental 
 major was her kinsman. Archibald Johnston was 
 a large landowner ; and among the records of the 
 
14 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Probate Court are many deeds and mortgages, the 
 cross index of which, as executed by the Johnston 
 family, occupies several pages, and extends from 
 1771 to 1825. In an address on the 100th anni- 
 versary of Salisbury, delivered by Samuel Clinch, 
 October 20, 1841, page 50, he says : Among the 
 original purchasers of the towns of Canfield and 
 Johnston, in Trumbull county, Ohio, were James 
 Johnston, Daniel Johnston and others of this town. " 
 Josiah Stoddard was a member of the Legislature 
 of Connecticut in 1760, 1761, 1762; James Johnston 
 in 1805, and Daniel Johnston in 1817, 1818, 1819. 
 Captain Archibald Johnston died in possession 
 of considerable property, which, by the terms of 
 his will, was distributed equally between his wife 
 and five sons. This will is an interesting docu- 
 ment, and by the courtesy of Mr. Robert Good- 
 win, Clerk of Probate Court, we are able to repro- 
 duce the same herewith. The original is on file in 
 the Clerk's office, Sharon, Conn. 
 
 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ARCHIBALD 
 JOHNSTON, OF SALISBURY, CONN. 
 
 In ye name of God, amen, this 14th day of Octo- 
 ber, A. D. 1788, I, Archibald Johnston, in ye 
 county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, 
 being weak in body, but of sound mind and mem- 
 ory, considering to mind my own mortality, and that 
 it is appointed for all men once to die, I make and 
 ordain this my last will and testament ; that is to 
 say, I first of all give and recommend my soul to 
 Almighty God who gave it, and my body to a 
 Christian burial, at ye direction of my executors. 
 And a dwelling and worldly estate which it hath 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston. 15 
 
 pleased God to bless me with, I will and dispose of 
 them in manner following : 
 
 Firstly. I will and order all my just debts and 
 funeral charges to be paid out of my personal 
 estate, by my executors hereinafter named. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my loving 
 wife, Sarah Johnston, the one-third part of my 
 personal estate forever. Also I give her one-third 
 part of my real estate during her natural life. Also, 
 I give and bequeath to my said wife the sum of 
 twenty pounds, lawful money, over and above 
 what is already expected to be given her by my 
 executors, within the term of one year after my 
 death. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my son 
 James Johnston, the sum of thirty pounds, lawful 
 money, which he hath already received of me, 
 for his being the eldest son. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my said son 
 James Johnston, his heirs and assigns forever, an 
 equal portion of my estate, both real and personal, 
 including said note of my son's, and including said 
 sum of one hundred and four pounds , lawful money, 
 which sum I have already advanced him as part of 
 his portion. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my son 
 Daniel Johnston, his heirs and assigns forever, one 
 equal portion of my estate, both real and personal, 
 with the rest of my sons, including the sum of 
 twenty-seven pounds, lawful money, which sum I 
 have already advanced him as part of his portion. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my son 
 John Johnston, his heirs and assigns forever, one 
 equal portion of my estate, both real and personal, 
 with ye rest of my sons, including said sum of 
 two hundred and four pounds, lawful money, 
 which sum I have already advanced him as part 
 of his portion. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my son 
 
16 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Archibald Johnston, his heirs and assigns forever, 
 one equal portion of my estate, both real and per- 
 sonal, with ye rest of my sons. 
 
 (Item) I will, give and bequeath to my son 
 Samuel B. Johnston, his heirs and assigns forever, 
 one equal portion of my estate, real and personal, 
 with ye rest of my sons. 
 
 (Finally) I do hereby constitute, ordain and 
 appoint my wife Sarah Johnston, my son James 
 Johnston, and my son Daniel Johnston, all of Sal- 
 isbury, executors of this, my last will and testa- 
 ment, declaring this and no other to be my last 
 will and testament. In witness whereof I have 
 hereunto set my hand and seal in Salisbury, the 
 day and date first above written. Signed, sealed, 
 published and declared by ye said Testator to be 
 his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, 
 who at his request have subscribed our names. 
 (Signed) Archibald Johnston. 
 
 Samuel Whitman. (Sealed) 
 
 John French. 
 
 H. Fitch. 
 
 Captain Johnston was a public-spirited man and 
 took an active part in the affairs of his time. He 
 took up arms against Great Britain early in the 
 struggle for American Independence. On October 
 x 9> J 775> ne was commissioned Captain of the 
 First Duchess County (New York) Regiment, and 
 served with his regiment all through the Revolu- 
 tionary War. The record of his appointment and 
 service is found in a manuscript volume of Mili- 
 tary Returns, in the possession of the New York 
 State Library, and we are indebted to Mr. Geo. R. 
 Howell, Archivist, for the accompanying certifi- 
 cate of Captain Johnston's military record : 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston. 17 
 
 This is to certify that on page 194 and page 195, 
 of a manuscript volume entitled ' ' Military Re- 
 turn, Vol. 26," in the custody of the Regents of 
 the University of the State of New York in the 
 State Library, are recorded the appointment of 
 Archibald Johnston as captain of a company in 
 the First Duchess regiment of the New York 
 State militia and a memorandum of his commis- 
 sion on October 19, 1775, which regiment was 
 under command of Col. Petrus Ten Broeck until 
 his death in 1778, and then from March 18, 
 1778, under command of Col. 
 Morris Graham ; and also that 
 (Seal of the this said regiment was em- 
 
 Un State Si of New 1 " 6 P loyed in active service in the 
 York.) Revolutionary war. 
 
 George Rogers Howell, 
 
 Archivist. 
 
 Witness the seal of the University of the State of 
 New York. 
 
 1776, Captain Johnston was named by "Town 
 Meeting " on a committtee to receive clothing for 
 the Continental soldiers, in pursuance of a " recent 
 act of the General Assembly." 
 
 In 1777, he took "oath of fidelity to this State 
 (Connecticut) before Joshua Porter, J. P." 
 
 On January n, 1781, by town meeting, a com- 
 mittee consisting of H. Fitch, Esq., Captain 
 Archibald Johnston and Timothy Chittenden was 
 named to investigate a former Committee on Par- 
 sonage and Schools. 
 
 In 1784, we find recorded a deed to Archibald 
 Johnston, the consideration being 540 pounds of 
 lawful money. It is worthy of note that while 
 
18 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 numerous deeds are found transferring property to 
 him, few if any can be found conveying it away 
 from him. 
 
 In 1787, Town Meeting, Archibald Johnston was 
 made Surveyor of Highways. 
 
 In 1789, the year of his death, he was elected 
 School Commissioner. 
 
 The frequent mention of his name on the public 
 records of that time indicates in some measure the 
 high esteem in which he was held by his fellow- , 
 citizens. 
 
 Captain Johnston left a wife and five sons, 
 James, Daniel, John, Archibald and Samuel B. 
 The names of all these sons appear frequently in 
 the State and county records, and mention of them 
 is made in another part of this work. 
 
 This evidence is conclusive that he was a Cap- 
 tain in the Continental army. There is some 
 probability that he was also at the capture of 
 Ticonderoga in 1759. But this is not certain. The 
 fact that " Captain Archibald Johnston's company 
 of Connecticut Volunteers ' ' was enrolled October 
 J 9> 1775, in the First Duchess County (New 
 York) Regiment is explained by their close prox- 
 imity to those troops, and their distance from the 
 seaboard of Connecticut. The Hudson river and 
 Canada were their frontier, and the need was 
 greater there. 
 
 It has been said that for all practical purposes 
 Captain Archibald Johnston was the first of his 
 family, and we are willing to accept him as the 
 progenitor. The tradition in the family has 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston, 19 
 
 been that he was of Scotch descent. General 
 Albert Sidney Johnston and his sister, Mrs. 
 Byers, were strongly of this opinion ; and 
 Samuel B. Johnston, of Poughkeepsie, son of 
 Archibald (2d), " always strenuously insisted 
 upon the ' t ' in his name, and that he was of 
 Scotch descent." Most of the Johnstons in 
 America, especially those in the Appalachian range,, 
 where they are very numerous from New York to 
 Georgia, with their offshoots in the West, are 
 Scotch- Irish and of a verj' vigorous type. Of 
 course, our direct Scotch descent is only probable, 
 not certain, and we distinctly repudiate all myths 
 and unverified data. We feel quite confident of 
 the fact, but have no verified data to connect us 
 with Ulster or Annandale, though we feel very 
 clannish with those moss-troopers, about the latest 
 tamed of the border raiders. Some silent confirm- 
 ation is added to the family tradition by the very 
 marked facial characteristics of many members of 
 the family, who might be mistaken for Scotch 
 people. To a close observer, differences seem 
 apparent between the Scotch of Scotland and 
 their descendants, the Scotch-Irish. However, 
 these matters are not to be determined here or 
 now. 
 
 These facts are few and simple, but from them 
 the sturdy form of old Captain Archibald John- 
 ston stands out as the hardy progenitor and 
 patriarch of a bold and honorable line of descend- 
 ants. His sons scattered westward and southward, 
 and their progeny extend to-day from the Hudson 
 
20 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 river to the Pacific ocean. In the hot race of life 
 their eyes have seldom looked back. 
 
 It seems strange to residents of old communities 
 that respectable families should lose the clue to 
 their descent in brief periods of time, but it is 
 easily enough understood if one will follow the 
 fortunes of this family, which is an excellent illus- 
 tration of the causes of the oblivion that buries 
 the past. Most of the details of family history, 
 many of them interesting to us of to-day, have 
 been forgotten. But in the strenuous contest for 
 survival and the success that attends a legitimate 
 ambition, the descendants of Archibald Johnston 
 have held their place. 
 
 The annexed "annals" have a significance to 
 those acquainted with the early institutions of the 
 United States, and exhibits a family vivid with the 
 energy of a young community, and entering into 
 all the details of its civic and military life with 
 intelligence and'ardor — examples of the organizing 
 faculty of their race. 
 
 In this little volume we have brought together 
 such fragments of family history and memorials of 
 the past as may serve to build a family altar on 
 which to keep alight the flame of private affection 
 and public duty. 
 
 The accounts of the families with which these 
 Johnstons have intermarried are introduced chiefly 
 for the sake of the younger generation, who are 
 thus assisted in tracing back their own lines of an- 
 cestry. If any lesson can be learned from a study 
 of these data, it is that respectable families pre- 
 
Captain Archibald Johnston. 21 
 
 serve their standing by not lowering themselves in 
 their marriages. Heredity is a Nemesis that avenges 
 unto the third and fourth generations and beyond. 
 
 It is a source of pride, too, that our family have 
 always been found standing up for their rights as 
 citizens and defending the cause of republican 
 liberty against lawless power. 
 
 If more prominence is given to some than to 
 others in the sketches included herein, it is be- 
 cause we know more of them. We lament that 
 the silence of oblivion buries so many that might 
 prove most interesting to us if we could rescue 
 them from the past. After all, however, the writ- 
 ten word is not fame, and if it were it would be 
 but empty sound. It is the right doing that abides. 
 
 The Scotch Johnstons — sons of the mist and the 
 morass — have left the modest opinion of their own 
 tenacity in a stanza of an old Scotch ballad, and we 
 are not unwilling to be accounted their far away 
 kinsmen. 
 
 " Within the bounds of Annandale, 
 The gentle Johnstons tide: 
 They have been here a thousand years. 
 And a thousand more they'll bide." 
 
 "The Gentle Johnstons, of Annandale," had for 
 their crest a winged spur, into which symbol 
 each era can read its own interpretation. And 
 with it they had the motto, Semper Paratus, and 
 sometimes its Scotch equivalent, "Ready, aye, 
 ready !" We will not borrow from them, but we 
 may not unworthily, or inaptly, adopt as a motto 
 
22 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 of our own, probably the last words written by Gen- 
 eral A. S. Johnston in the cover of his pocket map 
 before the battle of Shiloh, 
 
 ' ' En Avant ! ' ' 
 
ANNALS. 
 
 Extracts from the Records of the Town 
 of Salisbury, State of Connecticut. 
 
 1734. James Johnston, Collector (?). 
 
 March 29, 1771. Deed from J. Bickford, of Salis- 
 bury, to Archibald, Johnston, of 
 Oblong, Duchess county, New 
 York. 
 
 Dec. 1, 1772. Deed from John Benton, of Sal- 
 isbury, to Archibald Johnston, of 
 Oblong. 
 
 Dec. 21, 1774. Deed from Young Reriden, Ob- 
 long. 
 
 March 23, 1776. (70 or 78, date indistinct) Archi- 
 bald Johnston and others ap- 
 pointed in town meeting to be a 
 committee to receive clothing for 
 the Continental soldiers, as di- 
 rected by a late act of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 Nov. 11, 1777. Archibald Johnston took the oath 
 of fidelity to this State (Connecti- 
 cut) before Joshua Porter, Justice 
 of the Peace. 
 
24 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Jan. ii, 1 78 1. In Town Meeting : Voted that 
 we ' ' chuse ' ' a committee to call 
 to account the former and pres- 
 ent committee of Parsonage and 
 School interests in this town, so 
 far back as the last settlement 
 with said committee. Noted that 
 H. Fitch, Esq., Captain Archi- 
 bald Johnston and Timothy Chit- 
 tenden be a committee for the 
 above purpose, who are to make 
 report to this or a future meeting. 
 1782. James Johnston, Leister and School 
 Commissioner. 
 
 March 20, 1784. Deed to Archibald Johnston, of 
 Salisbury ; five hundred and forty 
 pounds consideration. 
 
 1786. Captain James Johnston elected 
 Constable. 
 
 1787. Town Meeting : Archibald John- 
 ston chosen Surveyor of High- 
 ways. 
 
 April 10, 1787. Execution served against H. 
 Fitch on house and lot. Sold at 
 auction, James Johnston, Consta- 
 ble, "doing the business for 
 Archibald." 
 1787-1794. Ziba Loveland, Grand Juror. 
 
 Dec. 1, 1788. Archibald Johnston bought a 
 piece of land sold for taxes. 
 1789. Archibald Johnston, School Com- 
 missioner. 
 
Annals. 25 
 
 Nov. 14, 1789. John Johnston, of Salisbury, deed 
 to James Johnston, " all my right 
 and title," etc. 
 April 11, 1 79 1. Ear-mark for Widow Sarah John- 
 ston's cattle recorded. 
 Dec. 5, 1 79 1. Town Meeting : Captain James 
 Johnston elected Selectman ; also 
 Lister, 1790. 
 
 1792. Deed from Samuel B. Johnston 
 
 to , "A portion of his 
 
 father's estate." 
 
 1792. John Wheelery, of Salisbury, 
 married to Abigail Johnston, of 
 New Milford, by Jeremiah Day, 
 Minister at New Preston. 
 Oct. 30, 1792. Deed from Daniel to James John- 
 ston, half of a forge or ironworks 
 in Salisbury, known as " John- 
 ston's Forge," and being half of 
 forge that Captain Archibald 
 Johnston died possessed of. 
 
 1792. Captain James Johnston selected 
 School Commissioner. 
 
 1795. Ensign James Johnston chosen 
 Constable. 
 
 1798. Captain James Johnston, School 
 Commissioner. 
 Dec. 20, 1798. Deed, Archibald, No. 2. 
 
 1800. Captain James Johnston suit with 
 Nathaniel Buell, Tax Collector. 
 Town meeting directs Selectman 
 to settle. 
 
 1803. Walter Johnston, married. 
 
26 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 1803. James Johnston, Surveyor of 
 Highways. 
 
 1803. James and Walter, Taxes, in 
 company. 
 
 1804. James Johnston, Commissioner of 
 Roads. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1804. Lydia, wife of Captain James 
 Johnston, died at Salisbury. 
 1804 to 1809. Sarah Johnston, Taxes. 
 
 1805. Herman Johnston, petition on 
 roads and river. 
 Herman Johnston, Selectman. 
 Walter Johnston, married. 
 Walter Johnston, Constable. 
 Herman Johnston, Commissioner 
 to sell old meeting house. 
 Herman Johnston, Commissioner. 
 Daniel Johnston, Selectman. 
 Walter Johnston, Constable. 
 Captain Johnston. Bridge called 
 " Johnston's Bridge." 
 Titus Johnston, Tax List. 
 Josiah Johnston, Taxes. 
 Marshall Johnston, Taxes. 
 Daniel Johnston appointed dele- 
 gate to form a Constitution of 
 Civil Government agreeable to 
 the Act of the General Assembly. 
 
 18 19. Herman Johnston, Grand Juror. 
 
 1822. Eliza Anne Loveland, married. 
 
 1828. David West, of , married 
 
 Harriette Loveland. 
 
 1828. Phoebe Berry and William Love- 
 land, married. 
 
 
 1806. 
 
 
 1806. 
 
 
 1808. 
 
 
 1809. 
 
 
 1810. 
 
 810 
 
 to 1824. 
 
 
 1810. 
 
 
 1812. 
 
 
 1812. 
 
 
 1 8 14. 
 
 
 1815. 
 
 
 1818. 
 
JAMES AND DANIEL JOHNSTON 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR FAMILIES. 
 
JAMES JOHNSTON. 
 
 James Johnston was the eldest son of Captain 
 Archibald Johnston, who in his will leaves him 
 thirty pounds on that account as a birthright. The 
 date of his birth we do not know. The "Annals " 
 printed herewith show him to have been an active 
 business man and a public-spirited citizen, accept- 
 ing the burdens of civic life as they were placed 
 upon him. James Johnston married a certain 
 Lydia, whose surname we know not, and who 
 died in Salisbury, February 28, 1804. In our 
 "Annals" we first find him mentioned as Lister 
 and School Commissioner in 1782 ; and in 1786 as 
 Constable; as Lister in 1790; as Selectman in 
 1 79 1 ; as School Commissioner in 1792, and again 
 in 1798, and as Commissioner of Roads in 1804. 
 In 1805, he was a member of the Legislature. In 
 1787, he was recognized by the Court as " doing 
 the business for Archibald. ' ' He came into pos- 
 session of the Iron Works, which had been his 
 father's,, by various conveyances of their shares 
 from his brothers, and seems to have made the 
 management of those works his business. 
 
 Some confusion exists as to the children of James 
 Johnston. He left two children certainly, and a 
 third, Herman, is mentioned in the History of 
 Trumbull County, Ohio. One of his sons seems to 
 have been known as Walter in Connecticut and as 
 
30 The Johnstoks of Salisbury. 
 
 Colonel Edward Walter in Ohio. It is not quite 
 certain that he is to be identified with the Walter 
 of the Annals, but it is the most probable supposi- 
 tion. Walter's marriage is recorded in Salisbury 
 in 1803 or 1806, or both. (We are not sure this is 
 an error or a second marriage. ) The Herman men- 
 tioned by the Ohio historian may have been the 
 Walter's son, Herman, or he may have been the 
 nephew of James Johnston and the son of Daniel, 
 who was also interested in the land purchase in 
 Ohio. But of this we have no certain knowledge. 
 Walter is mentioned as Constable in 1808 and 18 10. 
 The venerable Governor Holley in 1873 says that 
 he knew James and his son Walter very well, and 
 that his ' ' father purchased quite an estate from 
 those two gentlemen about forty years since. The 
 father died in Salisbury, the son in Ohio." Mr. 
 Truesdale, the local authority on Canfield history, 
 says he is buried in Canfield, and gives details that 
 assure his accuracy. These will be found at the 
 close of this sketch of James Johnston. James 
 Johnston had also a daughter, Sarah, who married 
 Captain Ebenezer Mix, of whom there remain 
 some fragments of tradition. 
 
 Mrs. A. Byers, writing in 1862 of this branch, 
 gives the opinion of Senator J. S. Johnston of them 
 as follows : ' ' Those of our family who were born 
 and educated in Kentucky never met with our 
 relatives of the North, but brother Stoddard who 
 was educated at Yale was acquainted with and 
 visited them and has frequently told me of them. 
 He said his cousin Mrs. Mix was a highly cultivated 
 
James Johnston. 31 
 
 and admirable^woman. She had no family. He 
 had quite as high an estimation of her brother, 
 Walter Johnston, who, I believe, has raised quite 
 a large family. ' ' She says in another letter : 
 " Brother said Walter was a man of business, of 
 high commendation, was wealthy and had six 
 children ; all seemed to be very promising. He 
 spoke very highly of his cousin Sally (Mrs. Sarah 
 Mix); that she was splendidly educated, and was 
 one of the most refined and elegant ladies he had 
 ever known. She married Captain Mix, a sea 
 captain, and lived in elegant style in New York. 
 Brother always visited her when he went to New 
 York." Mrs. Mix left no children, and we have 
 lost trace of Walter's family ; so that these frag- 
 mentary traditions, set down in the freedom of 
 family intercourse by an aged lady, give about all 
 we can find out about James Johnston and his 
 family. No one was more competent to judge on 
 questions of manners, or even of conve?iances , than 
 Senator Johnston, who was a leader in the best 
 social life in the Washington City of that day. He 
 made frequent visits to his early home, and found 
 there a primitive but pure environment congenial 
 to his best nature. 
 
 James Johnston seems to have engaged in large 
 land speculations in the West, and later on his 
 family removed to Ohio. The following abstracts 
 from local histories give all that can now be 
 learned of the fate of this branch of the family. 
 The slight discrepancies in the writers do not affect 
 the correctness of their general statements. 
 
32 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 After the Ordinance of 1787, in which Virginia 
 ceded to the United States the territory north of 
 the Ohio, the General Government, in settling the 
 competing claims of Massachusetts, New Jersey 
 and Connecticut, set apart for Connecticut some 
 3,800,000 acres, since known as the Western Re- 
 serve. Connecticut sold 3,200,000 acres of this 
 land to the Connecticut Land Company, composed 
 of about 320 of the wealthier citizens of the State, 
 for $1,200,000, which was converted into a State 
 school fund. (See American Commonwealth, 
 Ohio, by Rufus King, pages 225-6.) 
 
 It has already been mentioned that ' ' among the 
 original purchasers of the towns of Johnston and 
 Canfield in Trumbull county, Ohio, were James 
 Johnston, Daniel Johnston and others of -Salis- 
 bury township, Connecticut." On September 2, 
 1795, the Connecticut Land Company purchased 
 for $1,200,000 about 1,500,000 acres in what was 
 known as the Western Reserve, which in part 
 became Trumbull and Mahoning counties, Ohio. 
 These were surveyed in 1796 into thirty-five town- 
 ships. Among the forty-eight original subscribers 
 was James Johnston, who subscribed $30,000, and 
 his allotment was 15,914 acres in Johnston town- 
 ship, which was named for him, and 3502 acres in 
 Canfield township, which is now in Mahoning 
 county. (See Histo^ of Trumbull and Mahoning 
 Counties, H. Z. Williams & Bro., Cleveland, 1882, 
 Vol. II, page 400.) 
 
 On page 405, this history says: "Johnston 
 township. The name of this township was doubtless 
 
James Johnston. 33 
 
 from the original proprietor of the land, Capt. 
 James Johnston, of Salisbury, Conn., father of the 
 late Edward Walter Johnston. 
 
 " A son and daughter of Captain Johnston, from 
 whom the township was named, came in (about 
 1820). Col. Edward Walter Johnston, in 1828, set- 
 tled just where Dr. Moore Bradley afterward lived, 
 but subsequently left it for his brother-in-law, 
 Capt. Ebenezer Mix, who came in later, and 
 Colonel Johnston moved into the house of his son, 
 Herman Johnston. Captain Mix died November 
 21, 1839, aged sixty-three. Colonel Johnston died 
 December 2, 1849, aged sixty-eight." 
 
 Mr. J. Truesdale kindly gives me the following 
 information : 
 
 ' ' James Johnston was never a resident of this 
 place, but died here January 30, 1820, at about the 
 age of sixty-two. At the time of his death he was 
 visiting at the home of a relative (I think) by the 
 name of James Doud, who I suppose was related 
 to the captain's wife. His death occurred sud- 
 denly, being found dead in his bed. His remains 
 are buried in our village cemetery and marked by 
 a marble slab and in close proximity to that of his 
 brother Archibald and wife. James and Lydia, 
 his wife, had two children; Colonel Walter and 
 Sally Johnston. The latter married Ebenezer Mix 
 and the three died in Johnston, Trumbull county, 
 O. Johnston, as you may know, was named after 
 James Johnston. Sally, the daughter, was noted 
 for her 'personal appearance and elegance.' 
 This is all that my papers say of Captain James 
 
34 The Johnstons op Salisbury. 
 
 or of his descendants, and this taken largely from 
 information derived from Thaddeus Bradley, of 
 Johnston, probably a descendant or relative of the 
 family and made in 1858 or 1.859. Mr. Bradley is 
 now dead." 
 
 And beyond this we lose all trace of this branch 
 of the family. 
 
DANIEL JOHNSTON. 
 1764-1824. 
 
 Daniel Johnston, second son of Capt. Archibald 
 Johnston, lived the same manner of life as his elder 
 brother. We have but few facts concerning him. 
 He was one of the executors of his father's will. 
 In the annals printed herewith mention is made 
 of him in- the memorandum of a deed executed 
 October 30, 1792, to his brother James of one-half 
 the iron works, "known as Johnston's Forge," 
 inherited from his father two years before. Still 
 he was a man well known and long remembered 
 in his township. Governor Holley, who had busi- 
 ness transactions with him and his son Herman , 
 speaks kindly of them in his letters. He was 
 selectman from i8ro to 1824 ; was a member of the 
 Legislature in 1817- 18-19 ; and, in 1818, was " ap- 
 pointed a delegate to form a constitution of civil 
 government, agreeable to (act) of the General 
 Assembly. ' ' The word ' ' act ' ' is illegible in the 
 original. What was said of the sources of inform- 
 ation as to James also applies to Daniel. 
 
 Mrs. Byers wrote of him : " I had an intimate 
 friend who was educated at Yale that told me he 
 was well acquainted with my uncle Daniel, and 
 esteemed him very highly ; that he took great 
 
36 The Johnstons of Salisbuey. 
 
 pleasure in visiting his room for the purpose of 
 conversing with him, finding him very intelligent. 
 He said my uncle was then a member of the Leg- 
 islature, and had been for many years." In 
 another letter, Mrs. Byers says : " My brother 
 Stoddard represented Uncle Daniel as a man who 
 occupied a highly respectable position, was wealthy 
 and stood high in the estimation of the community, 
 as regards education, talents and integrity. He 
 was appreciated, and was frequently elected to the 
 Legislature. I have been told by gentlemen who 
 were educated at Yale that they frequently met 
 with him and sought his society, and were always 
 agreeably entertained by his intelligent conversa- 
 tion," and more to the same purport. I am not 
 aware that he was in the Legislature except in 
 1817-18-19 ; but it is not unlikely. 
 
 Daniel left but one child, Herman, who died 
 unmarried, December 22, 1839, and is buried by 
 his father's side. He is named as a Selectman in 
 1806, as Commissioner to sell meeting-house in 
 1809, as a Commissioner in 1810, and as a Grand 
 Juror in 18 19. His branch of the family seems to 
 have ended with him. 
 
ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON THE SECOND 
 
 AND 
 
 HIS FAMILY. 
 
 GAYLORD, KETCHAM, PLATT, ELSWORTH. 
 
ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON THE SECOND. 
 
 Archibald (2d), the fourth son of Captain 
 Archibald Johnston, had a less happy fate than his 
 elder brothers. James, by virtue of his birthright, 
 had succeeded to the name and influence of his 
 father, in the home of his nativity, and lived the life 
 of a Connecticut farmer of ample estate, and so 
 with Daniel ; John led an active professional life on 
 the frontier and lived to see his children honored 
 throughout the land. Archibald emigrated with 
 his wife and children to Canfield township, Ohio, 
 where he and his brothers James and Daniel 
 had acquired a large landed interest. He had 
 married (probably in 1790) Rebecca Eoveland. 
 In the " History of Trumbull and Mahoning 
 Counties," already mentioned, it is stated, Vol. II, 
 page 400, "Archibald Johnston settled in Canfield 
 township in 1804. ' ' The date of her birth was 1770 ; 
 and, as their eldest son Newton was born in 1791, 
 they were probably married at an early age. The 
 husband in 1790 was only twenty-three years old. 
 These young people spent their early married life 
 among the hills of Salisbury, where all their chil- 
 dren were born. Their venture in pioneer life was 
 short and disastrous. The journey was made all 
 the way on horseback to a country then subject to 
 severe malarial visitations. Father, mother and the 
 
40 The Johnstons of bALisBCRy. 
 
 eldest son Newton were all carried off by fever 
 within five weeks of each other in the autumn of 
 1806. 
 
 Mr. J. Truesdale, writing in the Mahoning Dis- 
 patch, April 9, 1897, gives the following account 
 of Archibald Johnston : 
 
 " Archibald Johnston came from Connecticut in 
 the fall of 1801 to Canfield on foot, in company 
 with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, Ziba and 
 John Loveland, referred to in the annals herein. 
 He returned soon after for his family. They set- 
 tled on North street, on what is now the Cramer 
 or Carver farm, in a comfortable log house. In 
 1806 he purchased the Nathan Moore farm one 
 and a quarter miles east of the centre, on which 
 was a large commodious log house located on high, 
 healthy ground. The families of Mr. Johnston 
 and Mr. Whittlesey were upon intimate terms. 
 The latter describes Mrs. Johnston as a noble and 
 fine specimen of womanhood, having three smart, 
 active boys. Archibald was a brother of James 
 Johnston, one of the proprietors of Canfield, 
 and after whom the township of Johnston was 
 named. 
 
 "At the election in the township of Canfield 
 (after the admission of Ohio into the Union of 
 States), including Boardman, Austintown, Jack- 
 son and Ellsworth, held June 21, 1803, Archibald 
 Johnston and William Chichester were elected 
 justices of the peace. Mr. Johnston died on the 
 13th of November ; Newton, a son, died Novem- 
 ber 20, and the wife died December 20, 1806. 
 
Archibald Johnston the Second. 41 
 
 The other two sons were very sick, but recovered. 
 The death register says they died of remittent 
 fever and typhus fever at the ages of thirty-nine, 
 fifteen and thirty-six years respectively." 
 
 The two little orphan boys, Charles and Samuel 
 Berry, after a distressing experience in their new 
 and strange home were taken back by their uncle 
 Daniel, who went out for them and who undertook 
 their nurture during their minority. So unhappy 
 were the days spent in Canfield that Samuel said he 
 never returned to it, even in thought, without a 
 feeling of pain. In their home at Salisbury the lads 
 grew to early manhood with the limited opportunities 
 of the time and place. But they had inherited, or 
 imbibed, a stout self-reliance and all the best quali- 
 ties of their ancestry and kindred. Most of their 
 father's means had doubtless vanished in the Can- 
 field venture, and they went forth literally to seek 
 their fortunes. Those Johnstons had had too bitter a 
 taste of the West to care to try again, and took 
 what was really the bolder step of settling in their 
 own neighborhood. It is probable that Pough- 
 keepsie had always been a little metropolis to 
 Salisbury, and to Poughkeepsie they went. The 
 story of the two brothers there is the common 
 American one of what obstacles can be overcome 
 by strong sense, integrity and manly qualities. 
 
 Charles became a lawyer, and was achieving 
 prominence in political life, when he died at the 
 age of fifty-two. He served as a member of the 
 United States House of Representatives in Con- 
 gress — 1839-41. He left but one child, a daugh- 
 
42 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 ter, and the family line is given in the tables so far 
 as known. The estimation in which he was held 
 by his legal brethren is shown in the resolutions of 
 the bar of Duchess county. It is but a slight 
 memorial of our kinsman ; but, where so little 
 remains, we will be pardoned for giving the reso- 
 lutions in full : 
 
 At a meeting of the bar of the county of 
 Duchess, held at the court house, on the second 
 day of September, 1845, Hon. James Emott was 
 called to the chair and Judge Barculo appointed 
 Secretary. 
 
 On motion, Messrs. Robert Elkinson, Willam J. 
 Street and E. I. Eldridge were appointed a com- 
 mittee to prepare resolutions expressive of the 
 sense of the meeting, touching the recent death of 
 Charles Johnston, Esq. 
 
 The committee, after retiring and consultation, 
 reported the following resolutions, which were 
 unanimously adopted, viz.: 
 
 Resolved, That we have heard with deep, heart- 
 felt regret, of the decease of Charles Johnston, a 
 member of the Duchess county bar. In him death 
 has deprived us of one whose learning and moral 
 worth have been conspicuous among us for many 
 years, of one whose excellent example as a lawyer 
 and a citizen is a rich legacy left us for our emula- 
 tion and improvement. We have cherished for 
 him while living the regard which his many vir- 
 tues and rare qualities were well calculated to 
 inspire ; and now that he is dead, as citizens and 
 as friends, we feel a mournful satisfaction in ex- 
 pressing our respect for his memory and sorrow 
 for his loss. 
 
 In particular, we sympathize with his surviving 
 relations, and beg them to accept a copy of these 
 
Archibald Johnston the Second. 43 
 
 proceedings as a slight testimonial of our respect- 
 ful consideration and sincere condolence. 
 
 Resolved, That this bar will, as a body, attend 
 the funeral of the deceased to-morrow, and that 
 the proceedings of this meeting be published. 
 
 James Emott, Chairman. 
 Seward Barctjlo, Secretary. 
 
 The younger brother, Samuel Berry Johnston, 
 lived to attain a highly honorable place in the 
 community and to die full of years and honors, 
 leaving descendants who cherish his memory with 
 the tenderest regrets. He came at quite an early 
 age to Poughkeepsie and engaged in the freighting 
 and forwarding business, in which he continued 
 until about 1850. Gradually, he became interested 
 in many of the industrial and financial enterprises 
 of the locality, and attained a handsome com- 
 petency. He was president of the village before 
 Poughkeepsie became a city, was treasurer of the 
 Poughkeepsie Gas Light Company, and for many 
 years was vice president of the Farmers and Man- 
 ufacturers Bank. L,ater in life he left this bank 
 and became vice president of the Fallkill National 
 Bank, of which his son-in-law, Mr. Elsworth, is 
 now president. He is faithfully characterized in 
 the brief extract from a notice of him at the time 
 his death. 
 
 ' ' In the death of Samuel Berry Johnston this 
 community has lost a prominent citizen. A man 
 of rare business attainments, of unquestionable 
 reputation and character, he represented a class of 
 old business men, now unfortunately almost ex- 
 
44 The Johnstons or Salisbury. 
 
 tinct. His genial and social manners won for him 
 many warm friends from the ranks of the rich and 
 poor, old and young; but particularly from the 
 younger classes, who will always gratefully re- 
 member his encauraging words, pleasant saluta- 
 tions, eccentric but jovial ways, and his uniform 
 kindness and hospitality." 
 
 Much of the tranquil happiness of Mr. Johnston's 
 later life is attributed to his fortunate marriage. 
 His wife, Rebecca Ketcham, was of a family which, 
 like most of those named in this memoir, was of 
 old colonial stock and strongly inspired with 
 republican sentiments of resistance to arbitrary 
 power. On the paternal side she was descended 
 from Solomon Ketcham, born in Huntington, Long 
 Island, 1723, died 1784, and his wife, Hannah, 
 born 1728, died 1781. His son, Solomon Piatt 
 Ketcham, born April 6, 1757, died February 19, 
 1 85 1, was a violent patriot and served both in the 
 Revolutionary War and the war of 181 2. Rebecca 
 Ketcham's maternal ancestor, Richard Piatt, 
 " landed in New Haven from Hertfordshire, Eng- 
 land, in 1638, and afterward joined with others in 
 founding the village of Milford, nine miles from 
 New Haven. Among the coping stones of the 
 beautiful memorial bridge over the Wapanung is a 
 stone with this description : 
 
 "BEACON RICHARD PL ATT. 
 
 Obit, 1684. 
 
 mary, his wife." 
 
Archibald Johnston the Second. 45 
 
 His sons, Isaac and Epenetus, removed to Hunt- 
 ington, Long Island, in ,1666, and are enrolled 
 among the fifty-seven land owners imprisoned in 
 New York in 1681 by Governor Andrews, for 
 joining in the protest against his arbitrary rule. 
 Isaac Piatt's son Jonas was the father of Jesse. 
 His son Zophar married Esther Piatt, and was 
 father of Anne Rogers Piatt, born November 26, 
 1793, died at Poughkeepsie October 31, 1881, who 
 married Amos Piatt Ketcham of Huntington, Sep- 
 tember 9, 181 1. Their daughter Rebecca, still sur- 
 viving, was the wife of Samuel Berry Johnston. 
 The family did active service in the Revolutionary 
 War. 
 
 Mr. Edward Elsworth, who married Samuel 
 Berry Johnston's only child, seems to have suc- 
 ceeded so naturally to his place, and so exclusively 
 to represent this stem of the family, that a some- 
 what more extended notice of him will be accepta- 
 ble to the readers of this memoir. Besides, we are 
 greatly indebted to him for his unselfish and intel- 
 ligent assistance in the discovery and elucidation 
 of facts in the early history of the family. 
 
 Edward Elsworth was born in New York City, 
 January 6, 1840, removed to Poughkeepsie with his 
 parents when a boy, graduated from the State and 
 National Eaw School there in 1858, has served 
 two terms as Mayor of the city of Poughkeepsie, is 
 now a member of the Holland Society and of the 
 Sons of the Revolution, Trustee and Treasurer of 
 Vassar Brothers Institute, Trustee of Vassar Col- 
 lege and a member of the Executive Commi,ttee, 
 
46 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 President of the Fallkill National Bank, and Vice 
 President of the Poughkeepsie Savings Bank. 
 Edward Elsworth's ancestors on both sides came 
 from Holland and settled in New York. His first 
 known ancestor on his father's side was Christoffel 
 Elswaerth, freeholder, in New York in 1655. His 
 son William married Anna Maria Englebert. Their 
 son, Theophilus, married Hanna Hardenbrook in 
 1716. Their son, John, born 17 19, married Hester 
 Roome in 1742. Their son, William J., born No- 
 vember 28, 1772, married February 15, 1795, 
 Sarah Hinton. Their son, John (Edward's father), 
 was born in New York, May 22, 1802, died at 
 Poughkeepsie, May 22, 1874. He married, June 
 14, 1832, Martha, daughter of Joseph Van Varick. 
 The Van Varicks were of an old family in Holland 
 and Antwerp, having belonged to the nobility 
 there. 
 
SAMUEL BERRY JOHNSTON. 
 
 Samuel Berry Johnston is named in his father's 
 will as his son, fifth in the order of naming, and 
 hence probably the youngest. Mr. Samuel Berry 
 Johnston, of Poughkeepsie, son of Archibald (2d), 
 always spoke of himself as named after an uncle. 
 This would indicate a special affection from that 
 brother, unless it was the name of their maternal 
 grandfather. This is all we know of this son. If 
 his descendants survive we have not discovered 
 them. 
 
DR. JOHN JOHNSTON 
 
 AND 
 
 HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 EDWARD HARRIS. 
 
DR. JOHN JOHNSTON 
 
 AND 
 
 EDWARD HARRIS. 
 
 John, the third son of Capt. Archibald Johnston, 
 was born July i, 1762, at Salisbury. He was sent 
 to school in New Haven, and afterward studied 
 medicine at Litchfield, Conn., and practised his 
 profession for several years in his native town. In 
 1783, he married Mary Stoddard, daughter of Dr. 
 Josiah Stoddard, and a member of one of the larg- 
 est and most prominent connections in that section. 
 He emigrated to Kentucky. The date of his re- 
 moval is uncertain. It may have been as late as 
 1790, though it is probable that it was at an earlier 
 date. His father's will, made October, 1788, 
 charged him with over ^200 advances against 
 small sums to his brothers. It is true these may 
 have been made for other reasons, but the most 
 probable one would be to give him his portion and 
 start in life. In 1793, he lost his wife, who left 
 him three living sons, Josiah Stoddard, Darius and 
 Orramel. Dr. Johnston settled at Washington, in 
 Mason county, a few miles back from what is now 
 Maysville. Here he made his home until his 
 death, in 1831. By an act approved December 
 i9> J 793> ne was named, with Edward Harris 
 
52 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 and others, as trustees of the town of Washing- 
 ton, to confirm titles and take other corporate action. 
 The town had been incorporated by the General 
 Assembly of Virginia in 1786. 
 
 In 1794 he married Abigail, daughter of this 
 Edward Harris, and his wife, Abigail Atkin. 
 There is an indentured deed existing from John 
 Johnston and Abigail Johnston, his wife, of Decem- 
 ber, 1794. She lived about twelve years after her 
 marriage. She was the mother of eight children. 
 Dr. Johnston married for a third time, Mrs. Byers, 
 widow of James Byers. They had two children. 
 
 Dr. Johnston's life was a hard one. The coun- 
 try doctor, on a frontier hardly free from Indian 
 incursions, called on to practise his profession over 
 a wide extent of country, with few of the appli- 
 ances of his craft, and obliged to rely upon his own 
 resources in the most trying emergencies, he 
 shared the experience of so many others who have 
 devoted themselves to this most benevolent of all 
 callings. He was universally trusted and beloved, 
 and famous through the country side for his skill. 
 He worked like a galley slave, but received his 
 reward chiefly in the gratitude of his patients. 
 That he was not a provident or thrifty man may 
 fairly be inferred from his last marriage, when he 
 brought home a widow with nine children of her 
 own, to take charge of his large family. To be 
 sure, she was used to children. His sanguine 
 temper and robust nature did not shrink from the 
 prospect of narrow means and added toil. He 
 was not anxious to accumulate money, but seems 
 
Br. John Johnston. 53 
 
 to have been very solicitous for the education of his 
 children. Late in life he became poor, through 
 the payment of security debts, and his home was 
 sold at public sale. But his eldest son, Hon. 
 Josiah S. Johnston, bought it and restored it to 
 him, and, doubtless, thereafter contributed to the 
 ease and comfort of his declining years. 
 
 Mr. J. S. Chambers, a schoolmate of General A. 
 S. Johnston, who remembered Dr. Johnston well, 
 wrote of him as follows : 
 
 " I always thought General Johnston inherited 
 his frank, manly nature from his father. His 
 mother was a gentle woman ; while the old doctor 
 was bold and blunt to a remarkable degree. He 
 had no concealments, and was physically ener- 
 getic, and mentally bold and independent. He 
 had a large practice, and was often called into 
 consultation in difficult, or rather in desperate 
 cases. ' ' 
 
 All the old citizens of Washington bear witness 
 to his industry, skill, talents and probity, and to 
 his kind and genial temper. General Johnston's 
 mother is spoken of by others as a woman of 
 handsome appearance, fine intellect and sterling 
 worth. 
 
 If Dr. Johnston differed materially in character 
 from his sons, it was in the possession of a more 
 positive and aggressive temper. As far as we can 
 now judge from the traditions of family and friends, 
 Dr. Johnston was of a large and affluent nature, 
 full of energy, courage and sunshine. He was 
 self-confident, generous, kindly, unselfish and 
 
54 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 able; and if he had less ot sweetness of temper and 
 grace of manner than was so conspicuously dis- 
 played in his children, a good deal may be attrib- 
 uted to the exacting professional demands upon 
 him, as well as to the qualities inherited from their 
 mothers. We have always looked back to him as 
 the worthy progenitor of a noble band of sons and 
 daughters. 
 
 Dr. Johnston's large family of fifteen children 
 must have taxed heavily his narrow resources, 
 especially as he sought to give them the benefit of 
 a good education. As they approached manhood, 
 the eldest son, Josiah Stoddard Johnston, found 
 himself able to assist in the good work. Sufficient 
 sketches are herein given of him, of John Harris 
 and of Albert Sidney. The other sons died unmar- 
 ried. Darius studied law under the Hon. Wm. J. 
 Barry, of Lexington, Ky. , and became associated 
 with his brother Josiah in the practice of the law 
 in Louisiana. Orramel studied medicine in New 
 Orleans under Dr. Flood, and attended lectures in 
 Philadelphia, but he and each of the boys, as they 
 grew up, joined the prosperous elder brother at 
 Alexandria, Louisiana. Darius and Orramel, 
 allured by the spirit of adventure and of republi- 
 can propagandism, joined the Mexican forces then 
 in revolt against Spain. They expiated their 
 mistake by long imprisonment in Spanish dun- 
 geons and cruel treatment, and came home wrecked 
 in health, Darius to die of a pulmonary disease in 
 1819, and Orramel to linger a few years as an in- 
 valid. He practised medicine in Maysville, but 
 
Edward Harms. 56 
 
 died at thirty-three years of age. Lucius was a 
 gifted youth, with a fine oratorical vein. He, too, 
 went to Louisiana to become a planter, but died in 
 the second year of his residence there of a preva- 
 lent malignant fever. He was only twenty-four 
 years of age, and is remembered as the favorite of 
 his brothers and sisters. The others died young 
 and undeveloped in character. Mention is made 
 of Dr. Johnston's daughters, Mrs. Byers and 
 Mrs. McClung, in the family sketches ; the other 
 sons and daughters dying unmarried. 
 
 This memoir would not be complete without 
 some mention of Edward Harris, the father of Dr. 
 Johnston's second wife Abigail, a picturesque figure 
 in the local annals of the time. 
 
 Edward Harris, the father of Dr. Johnston's 
 second wife, was remembered by the survivors of 
 the days of Kentucky as a typical Puritan, "the 
 old John Knox Presbyterian of the place," as he 
 was characterized by a venerable citizen. And he 
 added, "anecdotes are still told of the spirit and 
 courage with which he defended his Church." He 
 had been a Captain in the Revolutionary Army 
 and had emigrated from Newburyport, Massachu- 
 setts, at an early date. He is said to have come West 
 as agent of the New England Land Company and 
 settled on the Muskingum river, where Marietta 
 now stands. However that may be, he certainly 
 held considerable bodies of land in Ohio, as his 
 will shows. President Washington appointed him 
 the first postmaster and military store-keeper at 
 Washington, Kentucky, which office he filled from 
 
56 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 July i, 1797, to October 1, 1802. He died in 1825 
 at the age of eighty-four years. Some of his cor- 
 respondence still extant evinces a man of positive 
 religious convictions, strong will, practical intel- 
 ligence and fair education. Appended to this we 
 print a characteristic letter that illustrates the man. 
 Fortunately, his argument prevailed and did not 
 cost him his place. At one time he was the 
 owner of a large body of land in Ohio, but lost it 
 by the intrusion of squatters. A memorandum of 
 his children is also given, taken from his will. 
 
 In the City Hall at Newburyport, Mass., is 
 found the following : 
 
 "Edward Harris, of Newburyport hath in- 
 formed of his intention to marriage October 5, 1765, 
 with Miss Abigail Atkin, of said Newburyport." 
 
 Edward Harris was married October 29, 1765, 
 by the Rev. John Eowell, one of the first pastors of 
 Newburyport. 
 
 Edward Harris is said to have been born Sep- 
 tember 20, 1739 ; died April 6, 1820. 
 
 Abigail Atkin (said to be his second wife) was 
 born April 6, 1748 ; died December 14, 1798. 
 
 LETTER OF EDWARD HARRIS TO THE POST- 
 MASTER GENERAE- 
 
 Washington, Ky., June 4, 1800. 
 
 Sir — I received yours of the 8th ultimo, enclos- 
 ing your advertisement for several routes, by which 
 arrangement I am compelled to relinquish my 
 place in the department. 
 
 No doubt you recollect that in January, 1796, I 
 enclosed in my letter to you an insulting note 
 
Edward Harris. 57 
 
 wrote by D. Vertner, of this place, because I would 
 not attend the postoffice for him on the Sabbath. 
 March 16, 1798, is the date of Mr. Burrall's letter, 
 in answer in which he says that no postmasters 
 are obliged to make up mails or deliver letters on 
 Sunday, which gave me great satisfaction to find 
 that the head of the department paid a deference 
 to that day. 
 
 I was much pleased with a late advertisement of 
 Mr. Moore's, postmaster of Washington City, that 
 he would attend office every day, except Sunday. 
 By all which I expected, I was secure from inter- 
 ruption on that day which God has set apart for 
 his worship. 
 
 All the blame I am conscious of since I have 
 kept the office has arose from that quarter. 
 
 In all my transactions through life, thus far I 
 have endeavored to keep a conscience void of 
 offence toward God and man. And since I am 
 now to finish my official duties in this line, I make 
 my solemn appeal to you, whether during my con- 
 tinuance in office (which has been coeval with 
 your own) if I have not faithfully (the three first 
 years when there was next to no pecuniary induce- 
 ment) performed the duties you enjoined on me, as 
 I have done the last year, when the emoluments 
 were increased, and whether I have failed in any 
 part of my duty. 
 
 At the same time I confess that when I entered 
 upon the duties of my office, it was with the ex- 
 pectation that as the country populated the emolu- 
 ments would increase ; knowing at the same time 
 that I was in the hands of whosoever was Post- 
 master General, but believed that the man who 
 filled the office would havs respect to those who 
 were faithful, and had served the country more 
 for public than for private utility. 
 
 From my youth to the present moment I have 
 
&8 ^he Johnston? of Salisbury. 
 
 believed that the Sabbath is of divine appoint- 
 ment, and that it is a statute law of Grod that the 
 seventh part of the time shall be kept holy, and 
 that I am not at liberty to alienate any part of that 
 day to another purpose than what is expressed in 
 the divine commands. Under the influence of such 
 belief no pecuniary advantages will be an excuse 
 for me to deviate from what my conscience dic- 
 tates as duty. 
 
 I well know I am advocating a principle that 
 pretty generally meets the sneers of mankind, and 
 that conscientiousness is too puritanical for the 
 order of the day — as the word is — but, sir, I am 
 one of those '75 men so much talked of, and have 
 made my observations on the morals of the people, 
 before and since the Revolution, and find them 
 greatly altered, I wish I could say for the better. 
 
 By the present arrangement I am to receive the 
 mail on Sunday, 11 o'clock A. m., make it up and 
 dispatch it by 3 o'clock p. m., which will deprive 
 me of the best enjoyment of my life. Besides, I 
 have trained up a large family, who are now men 
 and women, to revere the commands of God, and 
 it is well known in this place and every place 
 where I have lived, that I have been careful not 
 to profane that holy day. What a reproach then 
 should I bring upon the cause of God, which 
 should be dearer than life, if I should now rise up 
 against the moral government of the Deity. 
 
 It is true that the temptation comes with more 
 energy than it could have had at any former 
 period. 
 
 It is at a time when through infirmity I am con- 
 fined to a sedentary life, and which, under those 
 circumstances make the present emoluments of 
 office an object, but yet it is too cheap to barter for 
 peace of conscience — you easily see my position. 
 I believe my case a moral one, and but few feel the 
 
Edward Harris. 59 
 
 difficulty as I do, and most men, I am persuaded, 
 will dub them silly. With you, sir, it remains to 
 remove the difficulty. If you will alter the days 
 of arrival and departure to any other day than 
 Sunday, or allow the mail to be lodged, but not 
 opened until Monday, early in the morning, I shall 
 esteem it a personal favor conferred on me. With 
 much esteem I am, sir, and shall ever remain, 
 Your obedient humble servant, 
 
 (Signed) Edward Harris. 
 
 This letter is characteristic of the man. At every 
 turn will be noticed his reluctance to give up the 
 position he had held through all the difficulties 
 necessarily surrounding a new office, and just at a 
 time when the revenues were increasing and the 
 office becoming really desirable. It does not seem 
 to have occurred to him that he could hold the 
 office indefinitely by a compliance with the new 
 regulations. To do so would have been in direct 
 conflict with his conscience, and to take such a 
 step did not even cross his mind. He was sorry 
 to give np his place, but could not open and dis- 
 tribute the mail on Sunday. 
 
 As this letter was written in June, 1800, and Mr. 
 Harris was not relieved from duty as postmaster 
 until October 1, 1802, more than two years later, 
 it is probable that the obnoxious law was not 
 enforced. 
 
 The will of Edward Harris, signed April 8, 1824, 
 and probated May 9, 1825, after reciting his relig- 
 ious beliefs and hopes, and providing for the pay- 
 ment of his debts and a comfortable maintenance 
 for his wife, devises the rest of his property among 
 
60 The Johnstons of Salisbubt. 
 
 his heirs at law; to his daughters, Elizabeth Wilson, 
 Nancy Greely and Sally Baldwin , and the children 
 of Abigail Johnston, deceased, and the children of 
 his sons, John Harris, deceased, and Edward 
 Harris, deceased. Among other real estate devised 
 are three tracts of land in Ohio of 540 acres, 280 
 acres and 100 acres respectively. He also men- 
 tions other tracts. Edward Harris, Jr., died before 
 middle age ; John Harris married a Miss Titcombe, 
 of Philadelphia, and was a merchant there ; Nancy 
 married the Rev. Mr. Greely, of Maine, said to 
 have been a brother of Horace Greely ; Elizabeth 
 married the Rev. Mr. Wilson, of the Presbyterian 
 Church ; Sarah married Mr. Baldwin. Two of her 
 sons, James and William, settled at Platte City, Mo. , 
 as lawyers. Mrs. Anna M. Byers wrote very affec- 
 tionate reminiscences of her aunts and their 
 children, of whom she spoke as good and well 
 educated people. 
 
SENATOR JOSIAH STODDARD JOHNSTON 
 
 AND 
 
 HIS FAMILY. 
 
SENATOR JOSIAH STODDARD JOHNSTON, 
 
 OF IyOUISIANA. 
 (1784-1833.) 
 
 As we grow older the illusions of youth vanish 
 and we all come to understand ' the vanity of 
 human wishes. But it would be hard to find a 
 more signal instance than in the eareer of Josiah 
 Stoddard Johnston. Born among the hills of Con- 
 necticut, and starting in life with no larger share 
 of this world's goods than a wholesome nature, a 
 good constitution and a fair education, he scarcely 
 ever met a rebuff from fortune in the thirty years 
 of public life, but ends all with the sigh of the 
 preacher — " Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." 
 
 This he realized at the crest of his prospsrity 
 and popularity when he was for the third time re- 
 elected to the United States Senate, all parties 
 uniting in his return; and it has been still more 
 pointedly emphasized in the oblivion that has 
 fallen upon his memory. Few, very few, of the 
 readers of Louisiana history recall the name even 
 of a man who in his own day was the favorite and 
 leader in this aristocratic little commonwealth as 
 long as he lived. He is forgotten. This would 
 seem less strange if his position had depended on 
 mere superficial qualities; but, while he was a man 
 
64 The Johnstons or Salisbury. 
 
 who combined every charm of manner with solid 
 qualities of head and heart, his work was chiefly 
 directed to the welfare of his constituents and to 
 large questions of national importance. Probably 
 his misfortune was that, living in an age when 
 brilliant oratory was the chief claim to distinction, 
 he lacked the upper flights of eloquence that 
 swayed the republic with the trumpet notes of Clay, 
 Webster, Benton and Calhoun. Nevertheless, he 
 was a trained and forcible speaker in his time, 
 and a commanding figure in the counsels of his 
 colleagues. The following incidents of his life 
 are, in the main, extracted from the Life of Gen- 
 eral Albert Sidney Johnston. The biographer, 
 following the careful and affectionate tribute to 
 him by the Hon. Henry D. Gilpin, in the National 
 Portrait Gallery, makes one mistake in saying he 
 studied law under George Nicholas, as that dis- 
 tinguished jurist died in 1799, when J. S. John- 
 ston was only fifteen years old. His sister, Mrs. 
 Byers, states that he studied law with Hon. 
 William T. Barry. 
 
 Josiah Stoddard Johnston was born at Salisbury, 
 Connecticut, November 24, 1784; he was taken to 
 Kentucky by his father at an early age. When 
 twelve years old his father carried him to New 
 Haven, Connecticut, to school, where he remained 
 some years ; but he completed his academic educa- 
 tion at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky. His acquirements were solid and his read- 
 ing choice and various. In 1805 he emigrated to 
 the Territory of Louisiana, lately acquired from. 
 
Senator Josiah Stoddard Johnston. 65 
 
 the French, and then sparsely settled b} r a rude 
 population. Locating at Alexandria, at that time 
 a frontier village, he devoted himself to the practice 
 of law, and rapidly gained wealth and distinction. 
 His firm yet gentle temper and strong sense of 
 justice kept him free from the personal collisions 
 that marked the period and region, and, indeed, 
 enabled him to maintain the honorable character 
 of an umpire in an unorganized society, so that he 
 was called " The Peacemaker ;" while his educa- 
 tion and talents placed him in the front rank of 
 the leaders of public opinion. He was elected to 
 the First Territorial Legislature, and continued a 
 member of that body until Louisiana became a 
 State in 1812. He held the position of district 
 judge from 1812 to 1821. Toward the close of the 
 war, when Louisiana was invaded by the British, 
 he was elected to the command of a regiment of 
 volunteers, which he had aided in raising and to 
 equip which he had from his own means bought a 
 large quantity of arms and ammunition ; but, 
 though they joined General Jackson, it was too 
 late to share in the decisive victory of January 8, 
 1815. In 1814 he married Miss Eliza Sibley, the 
 daughter of John Sibley of Natchitoches, a lady 
 of rare personal and intellectual attractions. After 
 his death she married the Hon. Henry D. Gilpin 
 and was long recognized as a leader of Philadel- 
 phia society. In 1821 he was elected to the Seven- 
 teenth Congress. He is said to have desired to be 
 Governor, but Henry Johnson was chosen, and 
 shortly after Josiah S. Johnston was elected in 
 
66 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 1823 to the Senate of the United States ; in 1825 
 he was re-elected ; and in 1831 he was chosen 
 again by a Legislature opposed to him in political 
 opinion. The successive trusts were justified by 
 the fidelity and success with which they were dis- 
 charged ; and his election was due to the convic- 
 tion that his continuance in the Senate was neces- 
 sary to the welfare of the State. As a member 
 of that body, though he did not decline to take 
 part in the exciting political contests then waged, 
 his chief attention was directed to the advance- 
 ment of the materia 1 interests of the country. 
 Although not a brilliant orator, he was a clear and 
 forcible speaker, and always commanded the ear 
 of the Senate. As Chairman of the Committee on 
 Commerce, and as a member of the Committee on 
 Finance, he brought to bear an untiring industry 
 that mastered the details, while it grasped the 
 principles, of whatever subjects came before him ; 
 and this not only by the study of books, but by 
 conference with practical men and by severe, inde- 
 pendent thought. Hence his reports and speeches, 
 which were marked by the directness of his mind 
 and the unselfishness of his political character, 
 were listened to with respect even by his oppo- 
 nents, while his amiability and forbearance secured 
 him a large personal influence. He enjoyed a very 
 close friendship with Mr. Clay, with whom he was 
 in political affiliation. He opposed the doctrine of 
 nullification, and was a leading advocate for a care- 
 fully-guarded protective tariff which, by a judicious 
 adjustment of duties, should advance American 
 
Senator Josiah Stoddaed Johnston. 67 
 
 industry. But while he was a close student of the 
 history and Constitution of the United States, and 
 a representative diligent in the protection of his 
 constituents, his position in reference to the com- 
 merce of the country called his attention to ques- 
 tions of even wider range. It is to his credit that, 
 with an enlightened benevolence and enlarged view 
 of international law, he strenuously pressed upon 
 the Government the duty of seeking a mitigation 
 of the laws of maritime war. To this end he 
 urged especially that neutral vessels should protect 
 the goods on board, to whomsoever they might 
 belong ; and that articles contraband of war should 
 be limited to the smallest possible number of such 
 as are of direct use and essential in their opera- 
 tions. 
 
 Mr. Johnston was somewhat below middle size, 
 of graceful person, handsome countenance and 
 most winning manners. The testimony of his con- 
 temporaries represent him as a firm and yet mod- 
 erate partisan; a statesman of singularly disinter- 
 ested views; a most steadfast and loyal friend, and 
 a man of warm and pure affections, cheerful, gen- 
 erous and honorable. The happy influence of such 
 a character and career upon a band of younger 
 brothers can not be overestimated, especially when 
 they saw virtue crowned with a success which 
 met neither check nor reverse from its beginning 
 in 1805 to the close of an honored life in 1833. He 
 was a man well beloved, and well deserving the 
 love of his fellow-men. His conduct toward his 
 brothers not only illustrates the warmth of his 
 
68 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 affections, but exerted a powerful influence over 
 the destinies of his family. As they approached 
 man's estate he directed and aided in their educa- 
 tion, invited them to his home and advanced them 
 in their professions. His filial care of his father in 
 his old age has already been mentioned. Alto- 
 gether, he was a very noble character. 
 
 Below is reproduced a letter from Josiah S. 
 Johnston, to his half brother, Albert Sidney John- 
 ston, then a lieutenant in the United States arnry, 
 stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. In this can 
 be traced his tender regard for his young friend 
 and brother. It is a sad fact that this letter was 
 written so short a time before his tragic death on 
 the ill-fated Lioness: 
 
 My Dear Sir — I am now on board the Homer 
 on my way to Louisiana, with my son William. 
 The indisposition of my wife detained me until the 
 13th, when she was so far recovered as to permit 
 me to leave her. 
 
 We called at Washington and saw all our old 
 friends there, who are all well. I saw Mrs. Pres- 
 ton at Louisville, who informed me of the health of 
 your wife and children. 
 
 I shall reach New Orleans by the 1st of May, 
 and remain during that month and a part of June. 
 
 Since the pacification all parties seem reunited 
 to the terms of the compromise. The South is 
 content and the manufacturers are perfectly satis- 
 fied. The country enjoys at this moment an un- 
 exampled degree of prosperity, and we can see 
 nothing likely to interrupt it for many years. 
 Everything is appreciating in value ; stocks of all 
 kinds, lands, lots, houses, manufactures, rents, 
 etc! Property in cities and towns is rising rapidly. 
 
Senator Josiah Stoddard Johnston. 69 
 
 I was glad to see L,ouisville partaking of the gen- 
 eral prosperity. It gives indications of considera- 
 ble improvement, and will doubtless become a 
 flourishing place. Property will increase in value 
 to a considerable extent, if no untoward event 
 occurs. If the Bank of the United States is re- 
 chartered, or another instituted in its place, it will 
 give. an impulse to business and speculation. At 
 present I see nothing better than the lots in that 
 city. They promise, I think, considerable increase 
 of value in a short period. 
 
 It is impossible for one party to advise another 
 with regard to his location and pursuits of life. 
 We can not enter into each other's beings and feel- 
 ings. If money was your chief object, you would 
 accomplish the purpose more rapidly in Louisiana, 
 but the climate and low property are objections. 
 A good estate near L,ouisville, where there are fer- 
 tile lands, a healthy climate, and good society, 
 promises as much independence and happiness as 
 any other section or mode of life. If you chose to 
 engage in any active pursuit, many avenues to 
 fortune are open. New Orleans is a fine theatre 
 for talents and enterprises of all kinds, and so is 
 Louisville, Cincinnati, etc. 
 
 I duly received the account of Gen. Atkinson's 
 expedition. He pursued a wise and prudent policy. 
 If he had hurried on, and been defeated, the 
 whole frontier would been exposed, while the 
 timid and wavering Indians would have joined the 
 Black Hawks and gained possession of the country, 
 which would have required another year and a more 
 formidable force and a great expenditure of money 
 to conquer them. I had a conversation with the 
 President at the meeting of Congress. He was, I 
 believe, satisfied with the final result. He thought 
 the General might in the first instance have felt 
 the force of the Indians, and, having done so, he 
 
70 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 would have proved himself able to defeat them. 
 Caution is no part of his policy. The General was 
 placed in a situation either to suffer defeat by a 
 prompt movement or censure by a prudent one. 
 The country is entirely satisfied. It must have 
 been a very arduous service in which you have 
 had your share of labor and responsibility. 
 
 You will please make my affectionate regards to 
 your wife. 
 
 Affectionately, 
 
 J. S. Johnston. 
 April 25, 1833. 
 
 The sad story of this strong man's death is 
 touchingly told by the Hon. John Harris Johnston 
 in a letter to Lieutenant Johnston. It was indeed 
 deplorable that such a man should have been cut 
 down at such a time. The great love entertained 
 for each other by these able men is very touching. 
 The letter of John Harris Johnston is brimming 
 over with heartfelt sorrow at the loss ot his brother, 
 and tender solicitude for the surviving widow and 
 son. The letter is printed in full and can not be 
 read, even now, without emotion. 
 
 New Orleans, June 18, 1833. 
 
 My Dear Brother — Detailed accounts of the 
 dreadful disaster on board the Lioness in Red river 
 will have reached you before this time, confirming 
 the sad and melancholy loss of life on board. 
 Among those who perished was our much esteemed 
 and beloved brother, who, with William, had taken 
 passage the evening before for Natchitoches. In 
 an instant, when all on board were unsuspecting, 
 the boat was, by some unaccountable accident, 
 blown to atoms by powder, and between fifteen and 
 
Senator Josiah Htoddard Johnston. 71 
 
 twenty-five persons were destroyed. Our brother 
 was instantly killed, and his body was not found 
 for some days. William, who occupied the upper 
 berth in the same state room, was thrown to the 
 middle of the river and saved himself on a plank 
 or door. He was severely injured and confined to 
 bed for fourteen or fifteen days. He is restored 
 and able to walk out. I had left them here the 
 8th ultimo in good health (after spending several 
 days with them) for Opelousas, whither I went to 
 hold the courts in that circuit. They went to 
 Rapides the next day after I left, and after remain- 
 ing a few days in Alexandria they embarked for 
 Natchitoches. The news of this awful calamity 
 did not reach me for some days after. The busi- 
 ness of the court did not justify my absence from 
 it, and I have but just returned from the circuit 
 to my family here, without having been to Rapides. 
 I had heard of the prevalence of the cholera here 
 to a great extent, and I hastened to my wife and 
 little boys. I have found them all well and the 
 disease subsided, and -as soon as it will be entirely 
 safe to leave in the boats, I will go home for the 
 summer. 
 
 In my absence the cholera has raged with great 
 violence in Rapides on the plantations. It appeared 
 first on mine and with great malignity. All my 
 negroes were sick and I lost seven with about two- 
 thirds of my crop. The disease had abated there, 
 but was spreading through the parish. The loss 
 on the plantations has already been great. Many 
 abandoned their crops and removed their negroes 
 to the woods. By' last accounts no cases had 
 occurred on the plantation of my brother, though 
 very near to mine. 
 
 These misfortunes, all occurring simultaneously, 
 have been almost insupportable, and I have not, 
 until now, had resolution to write to you. Being 
 
72 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 convinced of the sad realities of the horrible scene 
 on the river, which it was almost impossible to 
 credit, we are left to the contemplation of the 
 heavy bereavement which that catastrophe has 
 occasioned, and to lament and mourn the loss of our 
 best friend and brother, a loss so irreparable, so 
 affecting, that to indulge in the recollection of it 
 would almost drive to madness. I fear to think of 
 the effect which this shock will have on poor 
 sister. Her reluctant parting with her husband 
 and son — the latter almost for the first time — and 
 her frequent letters since seem to confirm the 
 existence of some terrible presentiment of the fate 
 which awaited them. I have written to her, and 
 without at that time knowing many of the particu- 
 lars, have endeavored to console her in her heavy 
 afflictions. She will derive much consolation from 
 the safety of her son, who is in every way worthy 
 of her love, and who will live, I hope, to imitate 
 the example and emulate the virtue of his good 
 father, and will make himself useful in every situ- 
 ation. It is very uncertain what course she will 
 pursue. It is probable she will act on the first 
 impulse and will come to this country immediately. 
 We will know in a few days. 
 
 I write you under circumstances so unpleasant, 
 feeling so harrowed and painful, that I must beg 
 leave to close. Present my affectionate regards to 
 sister, to whom and to yourself, Mrs. Johnston 
 asks to be kindly remembered. 
 
 Very sincerely and affectionately, 
 
 John H. Johnston. 
 
 Senator Johnston had only one child, William 
 Stoddard Johnston, who is mentioned in the fore- 
 going letter. He was educated in Connecticut, 
 
Senator Josiah Stoddard Johnston. 73 
 
 and graduated at Yale College. He studied law 
 and began the practice at Alexandria, L,a. , and, 
 on the death of his uncle, Hon. John Harris 
 Johnston, was selected for the responsible and 
 honorable office of Parish Judge, at the early age 
 of twenty-two years. He married Miss Maria 
 Williams, daughter of Archibald Pierce Williams, 
 a rich planter of Rapides parish, L,a., and life 
 seemed opening brightly to him when he died of a 
 fever, only two years later. 
 
 Mr. Johnston left only one child, William Stod- 
 dard Johnston (2d), who having been brought up 
 and adopted by his grandmother, Mrs. Henry D. 
 Gilpin of Philadelphia, has since continued his 
 residence in that city. Wm. Stoddard Johnston 
 (2d) was educated chiefly near New Haven. He 
 served in Co. A, Corse's Regiment of Virginia In- 
 fantry, in the Confederate Army. Subsequently he 
 engaged in business in Philadelphia, but has now 
 retired. He is a gentleman of the highest integrity 
 and purest Christian character. 
 
 In Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, opposite Alex- 
 andria, a plain marble shaft, eight feet high, 
 marks the last resting place of this promising 
 young man. With him the last of the Johnstons, 
 who had numbered eight or ten in the parish a few 
 years before, disappeared from Louisiana for forty 
 years. 
 
 The following is the inscription upon the tomb : 
 
74 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Sacked 
 to the memory of 
 
 WILLIAM STODDARD JOHNSTON", 
 
 who departed this life on the 
 
 xx september mdcccxxx 
 
 aged xxiv tears 
 
 Parish Judge of the Parish of Rapides 
 
 and only son of 
 
 Josiah Stoddard Johnston 
 
 " II genius, goodness, piety and truth, 
 The brightest promise of ingenuous youth, 
 A wisdom reaching far beyond his years 
 Could check the current of affection's tears; 
 Then might the hearts that swell with anguish still 
 In calm composure this last act fulfil. 
 But, ah! Remembrance has no soothing power, 
 Hope only cheers the melancholy hour ; 
 Hope, that if worthy, at the eternal day, 
 Each cloud and earthly suffering swept away, 
 Those parted here, united shall enjoy 
 That bliss which death nor sorrow can destroy." 
 
FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN HARRIS JOHNSTON. 
 
 JOHNSTON, DAVIDSON, PINTARD, 
 JOHNSON. 
 
JOHN HARRIS JOHNSTON. 
 
 John Harris Johnston, after attending school 
 in his native county, was taken while a youth to 
 Rapides parish, L,a., by his half brother, Hon. 
 Josiah S. Johnston, and given the advantages of a 
 thorough education by the best private tutors. 
 When still in his teens he joined the company of 
 his brother, and with it went to the defence of New 
 Orleans, but it did not arrive until a day or two 
 after the battle. He studied law and was success- 
 ful in its practice. He was several times elected 
 to the Legislature from the parish of Rapides, and 
 in 1830 was chosen Speaker of the House. At 
 that time there were both French and Spanish 
 members, and his proficiency in both languages 
 served him well as a presiding officer. He de- 
 clined re-election to the legislature and a proposed 
 candidacy for Congress, but shortly after was ap- 
 pointed Judge of the Sixth Judicial District and 
 filled that office until 1834, when he became Parish 
 Judge, which office he filled until his death. He 
 was also a successful planter. His death at the 
 early age of forty was greatly deplored by his fel- 
 low-citizens, by whom he was admired and be- 
 loved for many estimable qualities. He was a very 
 handsome man, with pleasing manners and a most 
 winning address. 
 
JOSIAH STODDARD JOHNSTON 
 THE SECOND. 
 
 Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, of Eouisville, Ky. , 
 was the second son of Judge John Harris Johnston, 
 and is a descendant on the maternal side from a long 
 line of educated, intellectual and patriotic ancestry. 
 His mother, Eliza Ellen Davidson, was the eldest 
 child of a family of eleven, the children of Dr. 
 Richard Davidson, of New Orleans, Ea. Dr. 
 Davidson, son of John and Eleanor Ewing David- 
 son, was born in Prince Edward county, Va. , 
 December 25, 1783. His ancestors came from 
 Scotland in 1680. Dr. Davidson was educated at 
 Transylvania University, Ky. , where he graduated 
 in 1803. He became an assistant surgeon in the 
 United States Army, and afterward practised medi- 
 cine in Mississippi, finally settling in New Orleans, 
 where he was Port physician and a leading mem- 
 ber of the profession until his death, February 8, 
 1839. His wife, Eliza Noel Pintard, was the 
 daughter of John Pintard, a noted citizen of New 
 York City. John Pintard, the great-grandfather 
 of Col. J. S. Johnston, was the great-grandson of 
 Antoine Pintard, a native of Ea Rochelle, France, 
 a Huguenot refugee, who emigrated to New York 
 in 1686, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 
 John Pintard was at one time one of the most lead- 
 
Josiah Stoddabu Johnston the Second. 79 
 
 ing figures in the commercial world of New York, 
 and always esteemed as a notable exemplar of all 
 the civic and domestic virtues. He was, after the 
 loss of his fortune, by endorsing for a friend, edi- 
 tor of the Public Advertiser in 1802, clerk of the 
 corporation and city inspector until 1809; secre- 
 tary of the Mutual Insurance Company, the oldest 
 in New York; founder of Tammany in 1790 and 
 its first sagamore; founder of the New York His- 
 torical Society; a promoter of the first savings 
 bank, and an officer of many charities, including 
 the American Bible Society. He was a vestryman of 
 the French Church of St. Esprit, and translated into 
 French the version of the Book of Common Prayer 
 still in use. He died August, 1845. Among 
 Colonel Johnston's other ancestors was Colonel 
 Abram Brasher, a member of the first, second and 
 third Provincial Congresses of New York, a revolu- 
 tionary officer and a member of the Committee of 
 One Hundred, when Washington occupied New 
 York. 
 
 Colonel Johnston himself was born in New 
 Orleans, Louisiana, February 10, 1833. On the 
 death of his mother, March 23, 1837, his father, 
 Judge Johnston, entrusted his three little sons to 
 the care of their mother's sister, Mrs. Mary David- 
 son Hancock, wife of Colonel George Hancock, of 
 Jefferson county, Kentucky. Under their tender 
 care and judicious tutelage they grew to man's 
 estate. The eldest son, John Pintard Johnston, 
 died in his nineteenth year from the sequelce of an 
 attack of cholera in the epidemic of 1849. He was 
 
80 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 a very handsome, attractive and gifted youth, with 
 high aspirations and a rare promise of usefulness 
 and distinction. The youngest brother, Harris 
 Hancock Johnston, who was an infant a few months 
 old when his mother died, was reared by his mater- 
 nal aunt, Mrs. Mary D. Hancock, and became the 
 adopted son of herself and her husband, Colonel 
 Hancock. He received his education in that State 
 and at the University of Virginia and for several 
 years prior to the war was a cotton planter in 
 Desha county, Arkansas. He married Miss Anna 
 Brooks, of Bullitt county, Kentucky, June 8, 1859. 
 Upon the breaking out of hostilities he entered the 
 Confederate Army and served with distinction 
 upon the staff of General William Preston. In 
 1864 he was appointed Captain of an independent 
 company of cavalry assigned to special service in 
 the river counties of upper Mississippi until the 
 close of the war. He was distinguished as a 
 gallant and useful officer. With the exception of 
 a short interval he was engaged in farming from the 
 close of the war until his death, Ma3~ 19, 1877. 
 He was a man of intrepid courage, of fine business 
 capacity, much beloved by his friends and of 
 incorruptible integrity. His widow survived him. 
 He left no children. 
 
 To resume the narrative of Col. J. S. Johnston's 
 career: he was a pupil of Samuel V. Womack, of 
 Shelbyville, Ky. , a noted teacher of the classics, 
 and afterward he became a student in the Western 
 Military Institute at Georgetown, Ky., where he 
 remained several years. Stoddard Johnston, as he 
 
Josiah Stoddard Johnston the Second. 81 
 
 was generally called, went to Yale College, where 
 he was graduated in 1853. He studied law at the 
 Louisville L,aw School and took his diploma in 
 1854. In the same year, July 13, 1854, he married 
 Miss Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, and became a 
 planter near Helena, Ark. After an experience as 
 a cotton planter from 1854 to 1859, he exchanged 
 his occupation for that of a farmer in Scott county, 
 Ky. Here he remained until Morgan's first raid 
 into Kentucky, July, 1862, when he entered the 
 Confederate Army and served until the end of the 
 war in many positions of great importance in the 
 Adjutant General's department, and was present in 
 twenty- two engagements. He served with high 
 commendation on the staff of General Bragg, with 
 the rank of lieutenant colonel, and afterward with 
 General Buckner until after the battle of Chicka- 
 mauga, and from then as chief of staff to Gen. 
 John C. Breckinridge until March, 1865, when the 
 latter was made Secretary of War. He remained 
 with General Echols, who succeeded to the com- 
 mand, till the close of the war. Among the battles 
 in which he took part were Perry ville, Murfrees- 
 boro, Chickamauga, New Market, Cold Harbor 
 and Winchester, in all of which he received special 
 mention for gallantry. Colonel Johnston was noted 
 for equanimity, sagacity and devotion to duty, and 
 his counsel was valued by the most distinguished 
 officers in the army. He was often thanked in 
 orders. After the warand a residence for a year 
 in Helena, Ark., where he practised law, in 1867 
 he became the editor of the Frankfort (Kentucky) 
 
82 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Yeoman, the official organ of the Democratic party in 
 the State. He assisted in organizing the Kentucky 
 Press Association in 1869, and was its president 
 from 1870 to 1886 by annual election. He was 
 Adjutant General of Kentucky in 1871, and served 
 as Secretary of State from 1875 to 1879. In 1875 
 he was a candidate for Governor, but failed to 
 receive the nomination. He was able, however, to 
 name the candidate. He was secretary and chair- 
 man of the Democratic Central Committee for many 
 years. As long as he held this position, which gave 
 commanding influence in the party management, 
 his associates scored an unvarying success. A good 
 deal of the subsequent rapid disintegration of the 
 party was attributed by his friends to his absence 
 from their counsels. In 1886 he gave up his 
 place on the Yeoman, and in 1889 abandoned 
 political life and removed to Louisville, Ky., 
 where his private business demanded his attention. 
 Colonel Johnston's energy and business ability 
 were illustrated in the foundation and development 
 of the town of Abilene, Tex. , which were princi- 
 pally due to him. This episode in his life would 
 read almost like a romance. But for his bound- 
 less hospitality he would now be accounted among 
 the rich men of his generation. Having devoted 
 a good deal of attention to local history, in con- 
 nection with the Filson Club and other literary 
 organizations, he was finally enlisted as the editor 
 of the " History of Louisville," published in two 
 large quartos, a work demanding an enormous 
 amount of labor and research, which he accom- 
 
Josiah Stoddard Johnston the Second. 83 
 
 plished with a skill, fidelity and taste rarely found 
 in similar productions. Colonel Johnston was at 
 times engaged in various enterprises, developing 
 ' the industrial resources of Kentucky and of Texas, 
 and with a strong native bent for scientific research 
 and very accurate habits of thought, he made him- 
 self, next after his intimate friend, Prof. John R. 
 Proctor, the best practical geologist in Kentucky. 
 It is probable also that he has no superior in the 
 knowledge of the flora of Kentucky, and espe- 
 cially in arboriculture, in which he has always 
 taken the liveliest interest. Education had no bet- 
 ter friend in the State, and his addresses have been 
 marked by a strong advocacy both of high culture 
 and a popular diffusion of knowledge. As a polit- 
 ical writer, while wielding a trenchant pen when 
 occasion required, yet the overflow of a genial and 
 kindly humor generally robbed his most effective 
 writing of its sting. Indeed, he is a signal 
 example of a capacious nature bathing itself in the 
 sunshine of existence and diffusing to others" its 
 own happiness till the shadows fall. Few men 
 have done more for others than Stoddard Johnston. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Woolfolk Johnston, the wife of 
 Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, was the daughter of 
 George W. Johnson, of Scott county, Ken- 
 tucky, a man who presents a heroic figure in the 
 annals of Kentucky. His father, William John- 
 son, was an officer in the War of 1812; and his 
 grandfather, Robert Johnson, of Orange county, 
 Virginia, was an early pioneer in Kentucky, dele 
 
84 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 gate to the Virginia Legislature and member of the 
 convention which framed the first Constitution of 
 Kentucky. George W. Johnson was born in 
 Scott county, Kentucky, May 27, 181 1. He was 
 educated at Transylvania University and studied 
 law, but early relinquished its practice and became 
 a farmer. He served as member of the Legisla- 
 ture in 1838-39, and was nominated as Democratic 
 candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1851, but 
 declined. He was prominent in the councils of his 
 party, and was several times offered the nomination 
 for Congress, but early announced his purpose to 
 accept no office of profit. In 1852 and in 1856 he 
 was the Democratic elector for the Ashland dis- 
 trict. In 1 86 1, when the neutrality of Kentucky 
 was violated by the Federal government, he went 
 South and entered the Confederate service. When 
 the Provisional Government of Kentucky was 
 organizedat Russellville, Ky. , in November, 1861, 
 he was chosen Governor. Upon the evacuation of 
 Kentucky he accompanied the Confederate army, 
 and at the battle of Shiloh served the first day 
 upon the staff of Gen. John C. Breckinridge. His 
 horse having been killed in battle, although he 
 bore the nominal rank of brigadier general, he 
 joined a company of Kentucky infantry as a pri- 
 vate, and next day carried a musket in the battle, 
 where he fell mortally wounded. He was a man 
 of great force of character, of strong intellect 
 and moral worth. He married Anne E. Viley, 
 daughter of Capt. William Viley, of Scott county, 
 Kentucky, and left seven children. 
 
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON 
 
 AND 
 
 HIS FAMILY. 
 
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON. 
 
 Albert Sidney Johnston was one of the most 
 conspicuous figures of his times in the United 
 States, and, as his life has been written carefully 
 and in detail, and all the respectable biographical 
 dictionaries contain more or less accurate notices 
 of his life, no extended account of him will be 
 necessary in this little volume. Sufficient biblio- 
 graphical data will, however, be appended to 
 enable any who desire to know more fully the 
 features of his eventful and noble career to do so 
 intelligently. His high personal qualities, the 
 vicissitudes of his fortunes and his heroic death at 
 the head of the Confederate Army in the moment 
 of victory have won for him the respect of the 
 victors in a fratricidal contest, and the lamenta- 
 tions of the vanquished, who are convinced that on 
 his arm rested the final issue of the contest. His 
 memory has received honorable and generous 
 treatment, for the most part, by the Federal writers 
 and soldiers, while the Southern people have 
 invested it with all the sacred emblems that a 
 tender and sorrowful retrospect could suggest. 
 
 Albert Sidney Johnston was the youngest son of 
 Dr. John Johnston and his wife Abigail Harris, 
 and was born in the village of Washington, Ky. , 
 February 3, 1803. His early life was passed 
 among people who were intellectually well culti- 
 
88 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 vated and of an elevated moral tone and yet passed 
 their lives in the primitive simplicity of a frontier 
 settlement. His father's sturdy, robust nature and 
 life of unwearying toil as a country physician set 
 a fine example of manly traits for his many sons; 
 and Albert Sidney, like the others, grew up with 
 strong convictions of duty, honor and aspiration. 
 I have not mentioned in my biography of General 
 Johnston how he came to have a name unique in 
 combination so far as we know. His father was a 
 very pronounced republican, and one of his favor- 
 ite heroes was Algernon Sidney, the Whig martyr; 
 so that when his youngest son was born he deter- 
 mined to name him for that illustrious patriot. 
 Fortunately, his eldest son, who had just reached 
 manhood, was at home, and with much difficulty 
 persuaded him that so famous an appellation was 
 too heavy a load to start a boy with in life. The 
 father gave up the Algernon, on condition that 
 Sidney might form part of the name. Josiah S. 
 Johnston, with what we think singular good taste, 
 framed the name that has since passed into his- 
 tory. 
 
 Albert Sidney Johnston got fair teaching at the 
 country schools, and was sent to Transylvania Uni- 
 versity at Lexington, Kentucky, then the most 
 famous institution of learning in the West. Here 
 he did well ; but his brother Josiah, by this time 
 prominent in political life in Louisiana, took him 
 in charge, and in due time had him appointed a 
 cadet from Rapides parish to the United States 
 Military Academy at West Point. General Johnston 
 
Albekt Sidney Johnston. 89 
 
 more than once said to the writer : "I am more 
 indebted to my brother Josiah Stoddard for what- 
 ever I am than to any other man." Senator John- 
 ston was an excellent example of manhood for his 
 younger brothers to look up to. Albert Sidney 
 Johnston won a high reputation at West Point 
 among the cadets as well as with the faculty. He 
 was graduated eighth in his class, though his 
 standing in mathematics was much higher, and he 
 became Adjutant of the Corps, then regarded as 
 the first military distinction. His first appoint- 
 ment was to the Second Infantry, but after a short 
 interval he was transferred to the Sixth Infantry, 
 of which he was made Adjutant. On the 20th 
 January, 1829, he married Henrietta Preston, of 
 whom a short account is given in connection here- 
 with, and a fuller one in the Iyife of General Albert 
 Sidney Johnston. lieutenant Johnston's married 
 life was passed principally at Jefferson Barracks, 
 below St. L,ouis, and the only episode that stirred 
 its almost Arcadian tranquillity was the Black 
 Hawk War, in which he took an important part as 
 Adjutant General. An authentic account of this 
 is given in his life, and, indeed, all the official 
 reports must be finally traced to his own. In the 
 simple performance of his duty he won a good deal 
 of prestige and the confidence of his fellow-officers, 
 but missed the rewards that spring from political 
 patronage. This was greatly due, however, to an 
 independence of spirit that stood, perhaps, too 
 much aloof from the ordinary paths to place and 
 power. Mrs. Johnston's illness led to Lieutenant 
 
30 The Johnstons or Salisbury. 
 
 Johnston's resignation from the United States 
 Army, April 24, 1834, and her death in August, 
 1835, to an entire change in his career. 
 
 In August, 1836, Albert Sidney Johnston went 
 to Texas and offered himself as a mounted volun- 
 teer in the army. He had strong letters and testi- 
 monials, but did not choose to avail himself of 
 them. General Rusk's eye singled him out in the 
 ranks as one in a thousand, which perhaps was 
 not difficult to do ; and, having discovered his 
 identity, at once made him Adjutant General of 
 the army, with the rank of colonel. Captain 
 Price (History of Fifth Cavalry) doubts this fact 
 as not a priori probable. Not probable from 
 his point of view, perhaps ; but true, nevertheless, 
 as it came from General Rusk himself, and was 
 entirely in accordance with the spirit of the time, 
 the man and the occasion. The victory of San 
 Jacinto in the previous April had, owing to the 
 anarchy in Mexican counsels, virtually settled the 
 independence of Texas ; but this was not apparent 
 to the foresight of any human being. The pre- 
 ponderance of power and resources was so tremen- 
 dous that it was felt that any really energetic dis- 
 play of force by Mexico could sweep the feeble 
 infant republic and its inhabitants from the earth. 
 Its fate trembled in the balance. President Hous- 
 ton believed in and acted upon an opportunist 
 policy ; and, as it prevailed at the time and event- 
 uated in annexation, it is not to be condemned, 
 though it was maintained at a great expenditure of 
 blood and suffering on the frontier. General John- 
 
Albebt Sidney Johnston. 91 
 
 ston, who became the Senior Brigadier General of 
 the army, December 22, 1 836, held a different view, 
 and felt that, in a trial of arms, he could in a single 
 campaign conquer a peace that would ensure a 
 rapid and secure development of the republic. 
 Those who knew him then and since had faith in 
 his plans, but the policy of inertia controlled the 
 Texan government. This led to an estrangement 
 that had important consequences in his career. 
 General Johnston never had the opportunity to 
 fight a battle with the Mexicans, and first met 
 them in iorce, as a subordinate, at the Battle of 
 Monterey, after the annexation of Texas. 
 
 When Mirabeau B. Lamar became President in 
 1839, he appointed General Johnston Secretary of 
 War. The most important act of Johnston's 
 administration of this office was the removal of the 
 Cherokees from the disputed territory in North- 
 western Texas, to which they laid claim. This 
 was only effected after two severe battles on the 
 River Neches, in which he had the actual, though 
 not the nominal, command. The result was the 
 redemption of two-thirds of the territory of Texas 
 from savagery to civilization. Vigorous and 
 aggressive measures against the merciless Coman- 
 ches opened the northwestern frontier to settlers, 
 and foiled the machinations of Mexico, which had 
 used this weapon to harass and check the immi- 
 grants to Texas. 
 
 General Johnston, though abstemious in his 
 habits and indifferent to the accidents of fortune, 
 always displayed a generous profusion in helping 
 
92 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 a friend in need, or anybody, indeed, in distress, 
 and thus had greatly impaired the somewhat ample 
 estate he had derived from his wife. He had 
 spent, too, his money freely for the benefit of the 
 Republic, wherever it was necessary, and now he 
 was greatly straitened for means. The opposition to 
 General Houston's election to the Presidency used 
 his name as a rallying cry; but he had no taste for 
 politics, and longed for the tranquillity of a domestic 
 life. He retired absolutely from public affairs, and 
 October 3, 1843, married Miss Eliza Griffin, a brief 
 sketch of whom accompanies this memoir. The 
 Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston contains 
 many interesting details of this estimable lady, who 
 shared General Johnston's wayward fortunes for 
 the rest of his life, and nobly sustained her part as 
 wife and widow. 
 
 General Johnston now prepared to settle on the 
 China Grove plantation in Brazoria county, Texas, 
 with the intention of planting sugar. But before 
 he entered on this work he was called to the Rio 
 Grande by General Zachary Taylor in the war 
 against Mexico, and served a campaign as Colonel 
 of the First Texas Rifles, and, at the battle of Mon- 
 terey, as Inspector General of Butler's Division. 
 Generals Butler and Taylor recommended him for 
 Brigadier General, but political considerations pre- 
 vented his appointment, and he retired to his plan- 
 tation. Here he remained till 1849, laboring in ob- 
 scurity and ill health and getting deeper into debt. 
 President Taylor then made him a Paymaster in the 
 United States Army, and he thus re-entered military 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 93 
 
 life. He extricated himself from debt, and making 
 his home at Austin, for six years passed a laborious 
 and exacting existence, paying the troops on the 
 Texas frontier. But there is no doubt that this was 
 a period of great self- development to him; though, 
 indeed, his whole life was passed in strenuous 
 thought, when not engaged in actual work. 
 
 In 1855, he was appointed Colonel of the Second 
 Cavalry, a newly created regiment, by President 
 Pierce, at the instance of General Jefferson Davis, 
 Secretary of War. He organized this regiment and 
 took command of the Department of Texas. In 
 1856, General Winfield Scott said he regarded 
 General Johnston's appointment " as a godsend to 
 the country." 
 
 In the spring of 1857, tne trouble that had been 
 brewing with the Mormons in Utah culminated in 
 virtual revolt from the paramount authority of the 
 United States over the Territories, and the govern- 
 ment at Washington took steps to enforce the laws 
 by the aid of the military, if necessary. An expe- 
 dition was organized under General Harney and 
 set in motion, and no apprehensions were enter- 
 tained of real resistance until late in the season, 
 when the country was startled by the intelligence 
 that an army of 2500 United States soldiers was in 
 danger of destruction from the approaching snows 
 of winter, starvation, and the hostile arms of the 
 rebellious Mormons. The whole country was 
 alarmed; and, looking around for a man to save it 
 from a signal disaster, the administration fixed on 
 General Johnston. He was hastily sent to the 
 
94 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 front, and by forced marches and a wonderful dis- 
 play of energy and military ability succeeded in 
 extricating the troops from a most perilous situa- 
 tion, and in carrying them through a winter of 
 great hardships, with improved discipline and 
 enthusiasm. This is not the place to give the 
 details of the campaign, which resulted in the 
 quiet submission of the Mormons, nor of General 
 Johnston's subsequent administration of that mili- 
 tary department. Sufficient that he was brevetted 
 as a brigadier general, and established a military 
 reputation second to that of no man in the army 
 except General Scott. 
 
 When secession began in 1861, General John- 
 ston was in command of the Department of the 
 Pacific, with his headquarters at San Francisco. 
 He deplored the events that were taking place, and 
 doubted the wisdom of the action taken by the 
 South, in general and in detail, but his heart was 
 with his own people, and his allegiance was due to 
 the State of Texas, of which he had been a citizen 
 for a quarter of a century. He resigned his com- 
 mission iu the United States Army, April, 1861; 
 but so conducted the affairs of the department that 
 he might deliver his trust intact, as he had 
 received it, to such successor as might be sent by 
 the government of the United States. This he did 
 loyally, as General Sumner, to whom he turned 
 over the command, testified. All statements to the 
 contrary are false, and also malignant, as they 
 were disproven in his Biography, and by much 
 subsequent cumulative testimony. In resigning his 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 95 
 
 command, General Johnston performed an act of 
 self-sacrifice that any one can recognize. His was 
 almost the highest rank and prestige in the army, 
 and he gave up all the assured splendid rewards of 
 a mighty government to take part with a section, 
 whose relative feebleness none knew better than 
 himself. 
 
 His movements were jealously watched, but 
 with a small company of faithful friends he skil- 
 fully evaded the snares set for him, and made a 
 rapid journey of fifteen hundred miles through 
 the deserts of California and Arizona, from Los 
 Angeles to San Antonio. The hardships of this 
 fatiguing and perilous enterprise, undertaken at 
 the hottest time of the year, might well have tested 
 the most robust constitution, but be bore it well. 
 His arrival in the Confederate States was hailed 
 with the utmost enthusiasm, and President Davis 
 received him with the affection of early friendship 
 and a confidence in his warlike genius that re- 
 mained unshaken to the end. He gave him a com- 
 mand, imperial in extent and unparalleled in its 
 responsibilities. He was expected to protect Ten- 
 nessee, North Mississippi and the whole Western 
 frontier. If adequate means to defend this line had 
 been granted him, or adequate power to bring out 
 the resources of the country, he might have solved 
 the question differently. But, on taking command, 
 from Cumberland Gap to the Mississippi river he h ad 
 only 4000 troops to ward off an attack from many 
 times their number. There never came a time when 
 he was supplied with arms and men to meet the over- 
 
96 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 whelming forces on his front. With his headquar- 
 ters at Bowling Green, Kentucky, he exhausted 
 the devices of strategy to delay the final advance 
 of the enemy ; and when it came made a success- 
 ful retreat. The disasters of Fishing Creek, Fort 
 Henry and FortDonelson followed ; the evacuation 
 of Nashville, the retreat through Middle Tennes- 
 see, the widespread panic and furious outbursts of 
 popular rage, and the concentration at Corinth, 
 Mississippi. Thence he delivered that tremendous 
 blow at Shiloh, which shattered the armies of 
 Grant and Sherman to fragments, but culminated 
 in his own death at the head of his troops in the 
 moment of victory. 
 
 This is not the place to discuss the details of that 
 campaign or battle. They have been the subject 
 of much controversy ; and the present writer has 
 given his views fully, and as he thinks fairly, in 
 the life of Gen. A. S. Johnston, and in an article 
 in the Century Magazine , February, 1885. Adverse 
 and contradictory opinions, representing the opin- 
 ions of Generals Beauregard, Grant and Sherman, 
 are fully developed in many volumes and articles. 
 The principal of these are cited in the incomplete 
 bibliography appended to this sketch. Many other 
 independent opinions, Federal and Confederate, 
 are also embraced in this list. 
 
 Nowhere have the issues of that great battle and 
 the character and conduct of the commander been 
 better summed up than by Gen. Richard Taylor, 
 in his little volume, " Destruction and Reconstruc- 
 tion." A few brief extracts from this must here 
 suffice: 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 97 
 
 ' ' Shiloh was a great misfortune. At the 
 moment of his fall, Sidney Johnston, with all the 
 energy of his nature, was pressing on the routed 
 foe. Crouching under the bank of the Tennessee 
 river, Grant was helpless. One short hour more 
 of life to Johnston would have completed his 
 destruction." 
 
 He laments the final loss of the battle by Beaure- 
 gard, " as nothing compared with the calamity of 
 Johnston's death. * * * General Zachary 
 Taylor, with whom the early years of his service 
 had been passed, declared him to be the best 
 soldier he ever commanded. More than once I 
 have heard General Taylor express this opinion. 
 * * * With him at the helm, there would have 
 been no Vicksburg, no Missionary Ridge, no 
 Atlanta. His character was lofty and pure, his 
 presence and demeanor dignified and courteous, 
 with the simplicity of a child; and he at once 
 inspired the respect and gained the confidence of 
 cultivated gentlemen and rugged frontiersmen. 
 
 "As pure gold he came forth from the furnace 
 above the reach of slander, the foremost man of all 
 the South ; and had it been possible for one heart, 
 one mind, and one arm, to save her cause, she lost 
 them when Albert Sidney Johnston fell on the 
 field of Shiloh. As soon after the war as she was 
 permitted the Commonwealth of Texas removed 
 his remains from New Orleans, to inter them in a 
 land he had long and faithfully served. I was 
 honored by a request to accompany the coffin from 
 the cemetery to the steamer, and as I gazed upon 
 
98 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 it there arose the feeling of the Theban who, after 
 the downfall of the glory and independence of his 
 country, stood by the tomb of Epaminondas. " 
 
 Many have been the words of praise, the phrases 
 of eulogy, the tributes of unmeasured admiration 
 to the memory of Albert Sidney Johnston. One or 
 another aspect of his character has commended 
 itself to those who knew and loved him. His gen- 
 tleness to women and children, his consideration 
 for the weak and lowly, his simple, pure and tender 
 family life, his magnetic influence over those about 
 him, his serene and philosophical view of all ques- 
 tions that agitate the mind, his absolute self-renun- 
 ciation in all matters of citizenship or public duty, 
 his fortitude and magnanimity in misfortune, and 
 the scope and splendor of his warlike genius, each 
 and every one of these traits enshrine his memory 
 for his friends, his kinsmen, and his country. To 
 them he stands, in the self-contained, consistent, 
 and rounded fullness of his life and character, as 
 the pattern of a true republican, of an American 
 citizen. 
 
 In the words of Gen. Randall L- Gibson, " Gen- 
 eral Johnston's death was a tremendous catas- 
 trophe. There are no words adequate to express 
 my own conception of the immensity of the loss to 
 our country. Sometimes the hopes of millions of 
 people depend upon one head and one arm. The 
 West perished with Albert Sidney Johnston, and 
 the Southern country soon followed." 
 
 General Johnston's body was carr.ed to New 
 Orleans, but was subsequently removed to Austin, 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 99 
 
 Tex., at the request of the Legislature. A bronze 
 equestrian statue of him erected by the Association 
 of the Army of Tennessee surmounts their tomb 
 at New Orleans, ha.. 
 
 Henrietta Preston Johnston. — Henrietta 
 Preston, first wife of Albert Sidney Johnston, was 
 the daughter of Major William Preston and his 
 wife, Caroline Hancock. A sketch of Major Pres- 
 ton and his family is given in the supplement to 
 this volume. And likewise, in the brief memoir 
 of the Strother and Hancock families, some account 
 is given of ancestors who were those also of Gen. 
 Albert Sidney Johnston's second wife, Eliza Grif- 
 fin. But any memoir of Henrietta Preston would 
 be inadequate that did not include some mention 
 of her mother, Mrs. Caroline Hancock Preston. 
 
 This lady, who had a shrewd habit of observa- 
 tion, often remarked that filial gratitude was he- 
 reditary, and that filial ingratitude carried with it 
 its own retribution — always. She reinforced her 
 aphorism with pertinent illustrations that still cling 
 to the writer. Her own family was a very remark- 
 able instance of the devotion of mother and daughter 
 through successive generations. Circumstances 
 separated mother and daughter in the childhood of 
 her mother, Margaret Strother ; but from the time 
 she was restored to her arms, as a girl of seventeen, 
 this impetuous and loyal daughter never allowed 
 herself to be separated from her mother till she 
 saw her laid away in the family vault more than a 
 half a century later. Mrs. Hancock died at an 
 
100 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 advanced age in the house of her daughter, Mrs. 
 Caroline H. Preston ; but her death was a blow to 
 her daughter, who never recovered from it, though 
 she survived for a quarter of a century. So Mrs. 
 Preston, though she received from all her children 
 the admiration to which she was entitled, was the 
 object of profound devotion from her eldest 
 daughter, Henrietta, and of an almost idolatrous 
 affection from her youngest child, Susan. They, 
 in turn, enlisted the warmest affections of 
 a younger generation. The writer will be pardoned 
 if he has been drawn aside into this illustration of 
 a phenomenon, the reverse of which he has seen 
 exemplified in quite as strong colors. 
 
 But to return to Mrs. Caroline Hancock Preston 
 and her personality. She was a woman born 
 to be a power in any society to which destiny 
 called her. Of noble presence and a high order 
 of personal beauty, she possessed still more com- 
 manding qualities in a remarkable clearness and 
 vigor of intellect, great business ability and 
 energy, a high courage and powerful will, and 
 most charming manners. She combined great 
 vivacity with dignity, but above all her name is 
 still murmured on grateful lips, by the poor of 
 Louisville, after a half century, for her gracious 
 and unbounded benevolence. Left a widow in 
 embarrassed circumstances at thirty-six years of 
 age, she remained unmarried, extricated her 
 estate from debt, and brought up a large fam- 
 ily, many of whose descendants still remain in 
 Louisville. 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 101 
 
 Henrietta was the eldest child, the friend and 
 confidante of her mother, and her coadjutor in the 
 care and nurture of the family. She had the good 
 fortune to obtain an education very much beyond 
 the standard of the times, and being- endowed by 
 nature with taste and imagination, and a rare gift 
 for composition in both verse and prose, she was 
 able to impart to the household the charm and 
 refinement that springs from love of literature and 
 the intellectual life. She was a woman whose 
 virtue, sweetness, strength and poise have left 
 their fragrant tradition, through the fading years 
 among her kindred and friends. " She was above 
 middle size — five feet six inches in height — and of 
 agreeable person, with a full form, a brilliant color, 
 hazel eyes, dark hair, and somewhat irregular but 
 pleasing features. Her voice had wonderful har- 
 mony in its modulations. Her manner was full of 
 dignity and ease, but vivacious and engaging, and 
 her conversation has been variously characterized 
 as piquant, graceful and eloquent. She was a 
 woman of firm yet gentle temper and eminently 
 benevolent and forbearing. General Johnston told 
 me that ' it was impossible to have felt her in- 
 fluence, and afterward to cherish low views ; that 
 to her he owed the wish to be truly great. ' " This 
 portraiture, taken from the life of General John- 
 ston, will show that she was a worthy helpmate to 
 her husband. General Johnston said of her to the 
 writer, "If I am anything, I owe it to your 
 mother. ' ' 
 
102 The Johnstons or Salisbury. 
 
 Eliza Griffin Johnston. —Eliza Griffin ; mar- 
 ried October 3, 1843, second wife of General 
 Albert Sidney Johnston, was the only daughter 
 of Colonel George Hancock's eldest daughter, 
 Mary, who was born February 14, 1783, married 
 John Caswell Griffin, of Fincastle, Virginia, and 
 died April 26, 1826. Hence, Mrs. Eliza Griffin 
 Johnston was cousin-german to General'Johnston's 
 first wife, Henrietta Preston, they being daughters 
 of sisters ; so that the Hancocks and Strothers 
 were likewise her ancestors. Her descendants are 
 given in detail in the tables. Mrs. Eliza Johnston 
 was a woman of great beauty, high courage, and 
 fine talents, and was gifted with remarkable skill 
 in both music and painting. The " Eife of General 
 Albert Sidney Johnston , ' ' to which reference is made, 
 contains a full account of their married life. After 
 his death she remained in California under the 
 protection of her brother, Dr. John Strother Griffin, 
 and brought up her family there. She preserved 
 her striking personality to the last, and died Sep- 
 tember 25, 1896, at Eos Angeles, California. Her 
 children inherited much of her artistic talent ; 
 Hancock in painting, and all in music. 
 
 It is not the intention of the present writer to 
 offer a complete bibliography of works concerning 
 the life and career of General Johnston ; but as it is 
 not desirable or proper to give here more than a 
 mere bald sketch of him, a list of books, pamphlets 
 and magazine articles is appended for reference 
 for those persons who are interested in him as a 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 103 
 
 man and a general, and this list comprises many 
 comments bearing on General Johnston's campaign 
 in 1861-62 and the battle of Shiloh. It includes 
 material both friendly and adverse, and from both 
 the Federal and the Confederate point of view ; 
 but though by no means exhaustive, it will assist 
 the reader who wishes to consider the various 
 aspects of the discussion of those events. 
 
 Iyist of books referring to the life and career of 
 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: 
 
 1. Life of Gen. A. S. Johnston, by Wm. Preston 
 Johnston. 8vo., 1878. D. Appleton & Co. 
 
 2. Short History of the Confederate States of 
 America, by Jefferson Davis. 8vo. Belford 
 Company, New York. 
 
 3. Jefferson Davis. A memoir by his wife. 8vo. , 
 2 vols. Belford Company, New York. 
 
 4. Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 
 by Jefferson Davis. 8vo. D. Appleton & Co., 
 1881. 
 
 5. Marmont's Military Institutions. Edited by 
 Col. Frank Schaller. i2mo. Columbia, S. C, 
 1864. 
 
 6. Destruction and Reconstruction, by Lieutenant 
 General Richard Taylor, C. S. A. D. Apple- 
 ton &Co. , 1879. 
 
 7. History of Morgan's Cavalry, by Gen. Basil W. 
 Duke, C. S. A. Cincinnati, 1867. 
 
 8. History of the First Kentucky Brigade, by Ed. 
 Porter Thompson. Cincinnati, 1868. 
 
 9. Eeonidas Polk, by Dr. William M. Polk, Long- 
 mans, Green & Co., New York. 1895. 
 
 10. The Southern Historical Society Papers con- 
 tains various articles reflecting the views of 
 their authors. 
 
104 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 The following books and pamphlets give Gen- 
 eral Beauregard's view of mooted questions : 
 
 General Beauregard. A Memoir by Col. Alfred 
 Roman. Harper & Brothers. 
 
 The First Year of the War, by Edward A. Pollard. 
 West & Johnston, 1862. 
 
 The Lost Cause. Same. N. Y. , 1866. 
 
 The Campaigns of General N. B. Forrest, by 
 Thomas Jordan. Blelock & Co., 1868. 
 
 Notes on Pollard's Lost Cause, by General Beau- 
 regard, 1867. 
 
 The Shiloh Campaign. Criticism of General 
 Johnston by General Beauregard. Southern 
 Historical Papers, 1886. 
 
 Jordan's Recollections. Southern Historical 
 Papers, 1874. 
 
 Roman's Beauregard, by Charles Ga} r arre. South- 
 ern Historical Papers. 
 
 The following books reflect the views of Federal 
 writers : 
 
 1. The Memoirs of Gen. U. S. Grant and various 
 lives of him, as by Badeau, Greeley, et al. 
 
 2. Memoirs of General Sherman, by himself, and 
 other lives of him. 
 
 3. Sherman's Historical Raid, by Boynton. Cin- 
 cinnati, 1875. 
 
 4. C. W. Moulton's Reviews of General Sherman's 
 Memoirs. Robert Clarke, 1875. 
 
 5. Life of Gen. George H. Thomas, by Yan Home. 
 
 6. History of the Army of the Cumberland, by Van 
 Home. Robert Clarke & Co. , 1875. 
 
 7. Army of the Cumberland, by Gen. Henry M. 
 Cist. Charles Scribner, 1882. 
 
 8. Swinton's Twelve Decisive Battles of the War. 
 1867. 
 
Albekt Sidney Johnston. 105 
 
 9. From Fort Henry to Corinth, by Gen. M. F. 
 Force. i2mo. Scribner, 1882. 
 
 10. From Everglade to Canon with the 3econd 
 Dragoons, by General Rodenbaugh. Van Nos- 
 trand, 1875. 
 
 11. Across the Continent with the Fifth Cavalry, 
 by Capt. George F. Price. Van Nostrand, 
 1883. 
 
 12. History of the United States Cavalry, by Col. 
 A. G. Brackett. Harper & Bros., 1865. 
 
 13. Iyife of Admiral Foote, by J. M. Hoppin. 
 
 1875- 
 
 14. History of the Civil War, by the Comte de 
 Paris. Vol. 1. Translated. Jos. H. Coates, 
 Philadelphia, 1875. 
 
 The following is a list of pamphlets and 
 magazines articles giving the most diverse aspects 
 of facts and opinions : 
 
 Sketch of the First Kentucky Brigade, by General 
 George B. Hodge. Frankfort, Kentucky, 1874. 
 (Also in "The Land we Love." Vol. 4, No. 
 4, February, 1868.) 
 
 Battle of Shiloh, by Colonel E. M. Drake. Annals 
 of the Army of Tennessee. Vol. 1, page 117. 
 
 General A. S. Johnston. (Ibid.) Vol. 1, page 298. 
 
 Tables of Battles. (Ibid.) Supplement. 
 
 The Spirit of Military Institutions, by Professor 
 Albert T. Bledsoe. Southern Magazine, Jan- 
 uary, 1872. 
 
 General Albert Sidney Johnston, by Colonel Ed- 
 ward W. Mumford. Pamphlet. (Also in Annals 
 of Army of Tennessee.) 
 
 Llddell's Records of the Civil War. Part 2d. 
 
 Death of Albert Sidney Johnston. Southern 
 Bivouac. 
 
106 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 The Blunders of the Rebellion, by Colonel Thomas 
 Worthington. Washington, 1869. 
 
 Shiloh. (Ibid.) 1872. 
 
 A correct History of Shiloh. (Ibid.) 1880. 
 
 Proceedings of Seventh Annual Reunion of the 
 Cincinnati Society of ex-Army and Navy Offi- 
 cers. January 12, 1882. Cincinnati, 1883. 
 
 The Romance of Shiloh, by General Henry M. 
 Cist, U. S. A. 
 
 Shiloh, by General Wm. Farrar Smith, U. S. A. 
 
 The Genius of Battle. (Ibid.) 
 
 Century Magazine, February, 1885. Shiloh, by 
 Grant, Beauregard and Wm. Preston Johnston. 
 
 Offer of a Union command to General A. S. John- 
 ston. Fitzjohn Porter. (Ibid.) 
 
 The Battle of Shiloh, by Warren Olney. Overland 
 Monthly, June, 1885. 
 
 Address on same. (Ibid.) May 31, 1889. 
 
 Sherman on Grant. North American Review, 
 Vol. 141, page in. 
 
 Sherman's Opinion of Grant. (Ibid.) 1886, page 
 120. 
 
 General Grant on Lew Wallace and McCook at 
 Shiloh. Century Magazine, 1885. 
 
 Battle of Shiloh, by Colonel L. B. Crocker, 55th 
 Illinois Infantry. Chicago. 
 
 A Section of a Battle. (Ibid.) 
 
 An English View of the Civil War, by Lord 
 Wolseley. North American Review. 
 
 Lord Wolseley on the Battle of Shiloh, by General 
 M. M. Trumbull, U. S. A. 
 
 Records of the Rebellion, Vols. IV, VI and X. 
 
FAMILY OF ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON. 
 
 General Johnston left seven children — four sons 
 and three daughters. All his children are descend- 
 ants of Col. George Hancock (3d), of Fotherin- 
 gay and Margaret Strother, his wife ; both of his 
 wives being their granddaughters. An ample 
 sketch is given of his eldest son herewith. His 
 second son, Sidney, a noble and stalwart youth, 
 only survived him a year. He was but seventeen 
 years old when General Johnston left California, 
 and barely a year afterward he perished in the 
 terrible explosion of the steamboat Ada Hancock 
 in the port of San Pedro, California. He had 
 evinced the finest purpose in head and heart dur- 
 ing his brief life. 
 
 Hancock McClung Johnston, the next son, was 
 a boy under fifteen years of age when his father 
 left. He at once joined his brother in the effort to 
 aid in their mother's support. He endured much 
 during the war ; but, with a slender education, he 
 fitted himself for a man of business, and before he 
 was of age had filled positions of profit and trust 
 that gave him the necessary start in life. Unfor- 
 tunately, this was achieved at a severe price. 
 Employed in the Almaden Quicksilver Mines, he 
 probably there undermined a most robust consti- 
 tution and a frame of phenomenal strength and 
 
108 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 vigor. During a very eventful life, he amassed a 
 large fortune — nearly a million — in great agricult- 
 ural and industrial enterprises ; but, among the not 
 unusual fluctuations of the Pacific Coast, this has 
 not been secured to his latter years. He has been 
 for many years a citizen of L,os Angeles. Debarred 
 from active life by ill health, he has in recent 
 years devoted himself to art, especially china dec- 
 oration, a gift inherited from his mother. On June 
 28, 1870, Mr. Johnston married Mary Alice Eaton. 
 They have three sons. 
 
 Mary Eaton Johnston is the daughter of Benja- 
 min S. Eaton. Mr. Eaton was a lawyer by pro- 
 fession, a California pioneer, and one of the found- 
 ers of the Colony of Passadena. He was an editor 
 in early days, and afterward, in 1854, District 
 Attorney. His father, Elkanah C. Eaton, was a 
 descendant of Jonas Eaton, who settled at Fratn- 
 ingham, Mass., in 1630. E. C. Eaton was a 
 soldier of the war of 18 12, and, after peace was 
 restored, was for forty years engaged with Isaac 
 Fish in large contracts for carrying the mail 
 between New York and Boston. Mrs. Johnston's 
 mother was Helen Hayes. Her eldest brother, 
 Benjamin Hayes, was District Judge of Southern 
 California from 1853 to 1863. He was a man of 
 integrity and fine intellect, and was considered an 
 authority on Spanish grants. 
 
 Among her ancestors Mrs. Johnston numbers 
 the same Col. George Denisou, of Massachusetts, 
 named as the ancestor of Mrs. Margaret Avery 
 Johnston and Richard Sharpe, Jr. 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. 109 
 
 Griffin Johnston, the youngest son of General 
 Johnston, was educated at Washington and I^ee 
 University, Lexington, Va. , under the eye of his 
 brother, Wm. Preston Johnston. He studied for 
 the bar and became a learned and successful law- 
 yer at I,os Angeles, Cal. He prospered and mar- 
 ried Maud Walton, August 30, 1886, and died 
 November 25, 1895. Griffin Johnston was a man 
 of most powerful grasp of intellect. His ease in 
 acquiring knowledge, as a student, was phenome- 
 nal, and he had a sweetness of disposition and 
 kindness of heart that endeared him to his friends. 
 But he was singularly unambitious and indifferent 
 to worldly success. He was generous and sym- 
 pathetic, and that he left a considerable estate was 
 due rather to an intelligent desire for independence 
 and to simple habits of life than to any wish for 
 wealth. His untimely death alone prevented a 
 distinction which would have sought him out, 
 though he would never have sought it. 
 
 General Johnston's eldest daughter, Henrietta 
 Preston Johnston, has devoted a great part of her 
 life and fortune to benevolent purposes and the 
 education of the young. She inherited from her 
 mother a talent for prose and poetic composition of 
 a high order, but with a critical self-depreciation 
 that has prevented her from seeking literary repu- 
 tation. L,ater in life she has taken up miniature 
 painting on china with the most satisfactory 
 results. 
 
 Margaret Strother Johnston, second daughter of 
 Albert Sidney and Eliza Griffin Johnston, married 
 
110 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Capt. William B. Prichard, a native of Virginia. 
 Captain Prichard served with distinction in the 
 Confederate Army as captain of Company B, 
 Thirty-eighth Virginia Infantry, Armistead's Bri- 
 gade, and was one of the few survivors of Pickett's 
 famous and fatal charge at Gettysburg. After the 
 war he remained some time as an assistant profes- 
 sor of the Virginia Military Institute. Finally he 
 adopted the profession of civil engineer and 
 removed to California, where he has passed his life 
 in that profession and the pursuits of agriculture. 
 He is now a resident of San Francisco. Captain 
 Prichard is a gentleman of the highest character. 
 They have one child, Eliza Griffin (Elsie), born 
 March 15, 1878. Unmarried. 
 
 Eliza Alberta Johnston, youngest child of Gen- 
 eral Johnston, born August 30, 1861 ; married 
 George Jules Denis, a native of New Orleans and 
 a member of the old families of Denis and Cenas 
 of that city. Mr. Denis was born June 20, 1859, 
 and was educated at Washington and Lee Univer- 
 sity, Virginia. He removed to Eos Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia and engaged in the practice of law. Under 
 the appointment of President Cleveland, he has 
 twice held the difficult position of United States 
 Attorney for the Southern District of California, 
 and has acquitted himself with remarkable suc- 
 cess. They have one child, Alberta, born April 
 16, 1889. 
 
 George J. Denis is a grandson of the late Judge 
 Henry Raphael Denis, who married the daughter 
 of Pierre d'Herbigny, a distinguished citizen of 
 
Albert Sidney Johnston. Ill 
 
 Louisiana. The latter early in life came to the 
 State from Laon, France, where his family was one 
 of ancient and eminent lineage. This one married 
 the daughter of Chevalier Pierre DeHault De 
 Lassus de Luzieres, a soldier of renown in the 
 Louisiana armies of Spain, and at one time in com- 
 mand at Fort Duquesne, the site of the present city 
 of Pittsburgh. M. d'Herbigny filled the most 
 important public positions in the State. He was 
 one of the framers of the Code, a justice of the 
 Supreme Court, and Governor of the State, in 
 which office he died in 1829. 
 
 Mr. Denis' mother was Georgine Cenas, daugh- 
 ter of A. H. and Minerva Carmick. Her grand- 
 father Cenas was the Mayor of Philadelphia in 
 1774, and her mother's father was the celebrated 
 Major Daniel Carmick, of the United States Marine 
 Corps, who was twice voted thanks by Congress 
 and the French Chamber of Deputies for bravery, 
 in the latter case for saving the lives of Frenchmen 
 at Port Platte, in San Domingo. 
 
FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON. 
 
WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON. 
 
 William Preston Johnston, eldest son of 
 Albert Sidney and Henrietta Preston Johnston, 
 was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 5, 
 1 83 1. He lost his mother when he was four 
 years of age, and his father shortly afterward cast 
 his fortunes with the young Republic of Texas. He 
 was reared by maternal relations in Louisville, by 
 Mrs. Josephine Rogers, and, after her death, by 
 General William Preston and wife, and he received 
 his earlier education in the schools of that city. 
 Later he attended the Academy of S. V. Womack 
 at Shelbyville, Center College, Danville, and the 
 Western Military Institute at Georgetown, Ken- 
 tucky. He had always been of a studious disposi- 
 tion, so that at a period when boys are devoted 
 chiefly to play and light study he was en- 
 grossed in reading standard works of ancient and 
 modern history. As a consequence, at Yale he 
 almost immediately took a leading position in his 
 class in scholarship, and was especially prominent 
 for his literary taste and excellence in composition, 
 taking a Townsend prize for English composition ; 
 and among many candidates in the final competi- 
 tion, he was assigned the second place ; Homer B. 
 Sprague receiving the De Forest, and Johnston 
 the Clark prize for an essay on "Political Abstrac- 
 tionists " — i. e., Doctrinaires. 
 
116 The Johnstons or Salisbury. 
 
 After graduation he studied law and received 
 his diploma from the Law School of the Univer- 
 sity of Louisville, in March, 1853. On the 6th 
 of July, 1853, he was married in New Haven 
 to Rosa Elizabeth Duncan, daughter of John N. 
 Duncan, of New Orleans, La. He then settled in 
 Louisville in the practice of law; and, except for a 
 short interval, during which he resided in New 
 York, he continued there until the war. 
 
 Though not allowing himself to be diverted from 
 his profession by engaging actively in politics, he 
 was always a strong advocate of the principles 
 espoused by the South, and he took an active 
 interest in their maintenance during the period 
 preceding actual hostilities. When the issue, 
 however, culminated in war, he was among- the 
 first in his State to cast his fortunes with the South, 
 and to raise troops for the Confederate Army. 
 Having aided in recruiting and equipping several 
 companies in the summer of 1861, he was appointed 
 major of the Second Kentucky Regiment, but was 
 soon transferred to the First Kentucky Regiment 
 as major. He was subsequently promoted to be its 
 lieutenant colonel. This regiment saw its only 
 service in the Army of Northern Virginia, and par- 
 ticipated in the early operations on the line of 
 Fairfax Court House and the Acotink. Colonel 
 Johnston's health having broken down from 
 typhoid pneumonia and camp fever resulting from 
 the exposure of the field, and his regiment having 
 been disbanded during his illness, he accepted in 
 May, 1862, the invitation of President Davis to 
 
William Preston Johnston. 117 
 
 become a member of his official family as aide-de- 
 camp, with the rank of colonel. He continued to 
 fill this position until the close of the war, his chief 
 duties being those of an inspector general and a 
 confidential staff officer of Mr. Davis for communi- 
 cation with generals commanding in the field. He 
 was present in the battles of Seven Pines, Cold 
 Harbor, Sheridan's Raid, Drewry's Bluff and in 
 the lines at Petersburg, and many other important 
 combats. He contributed essentially to the 
 strength of the administration by the high qualifi- 
 cations he brought to his responsible trust and the 
 general confidence reposed in him by his chief and 
 by all who knew him. He adhered with unswerv- 
 ing fidelity to the fortunes of Mr. Davis, and was 
 captured with him in Georgia after the surrender 
 of General Joseph E. Johnston. After several 
 months of solitary confinement in Fort Dela- 
 ware, he was released ; and after nearly a year's 
 residence in exile in Canada, returning to Douisville, 
 he resumed the practice of law. 
 
 In 1867, while thus engaged, he was invited by 
 Gen. R. E- Dee to the Chair of History and Eng- 
 lish Diterature in Washington and Dee University, 
 Dexington, Va. , and removed to that place. This 
 was a position for which he was peculiarly well 
 fitted by the trend of his mind, as well as his schol- 
 arly acquirements ; and his success in drawing to 
 the institution a class of superior youth from the 
 West and South, and in inspiring them with his 
 own high standard of morality, learning and ambi- 
 tion, has been best evidenced in the honorable 
 
118 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 positions in life attained by those who came under 
 his personal and professional influence. Colonel 
 Johnston remained at Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity until 1877, and while there wrote the " Life 
 of Albert Sidney Johnston," published by the 
 Appletons in 1878. This work is an admirably 
 written biography of the great Confederate Chief- 
 tain who lost his life on the memorable battle field 
 of Shiloh, and whose character is one of the grand- 
 est and noblest in American annals. Colonel John- 
 ston's Life of his father ranked him as one of the 
 best writers in the country, and his style is noted 
 for its vigor and elegance. The judicial character 
 of his work has been attested by many of the most 
 distinguished generals and fairest critics on both 
 sides, North and South. 
 
 A high degree of literary excellence is found in 
 his other works, which consist of a number of 
 poems, essays on literary, historical, and pedagog- 
 ical subjects, and addresses. In 1890 he printed 
 "The Prototype of Hamlet," a series of lectures 
 delivered at the Tulane University, which have 
 been very favorably received by Shakespearian 
 scholars. Owing to the bankruptcy of the pub- 
 lisher at the moment of its issue, this volume was 
 never offered for sale, and only a small number of 
 copies were printed. Its thesis is a paradox which 
 has found favor with many lawyers, but it is not 
 cheerfully accepted by the worshippers of the 
 great bard. Colonel Johnston, however, ranks 
 Shakespeare as the greatest of all writers, and re- 
 gards the Baconian theory as absurd. 
 
William Preston Johnston. 119 
 
 Colonel Johnston has delivered a large number 
 of addresses before various universities and other 
 educational assemblies. These addresses have 
 been widely noticed as giving a correct and vivid 
 picture of what is called the Old South, and also 
 of the conditions in the New South. The manly 
 and earnest tone of the speaker, and his profound 
 philosophical observation, with his estimate of 
 what should be done for Southern civilization, have 
 been much appreciated by political economists in 
 America and in Europe. 
 
 During all Colonel Johnston's varied career as 
 lawyer, soldier, professor, public speaker and uni- 
 versity president he has indulged a strong bent for 
 writing verse, the impulse of a genuine poetic 
 gift. But a certain diffidence and fear of mere 
 mediocrity, with a knowledge of the estimate 
 placed on such productions by practical men, pre- 
 vented him for a long time from printing his 
 verses, except on rare occasions. In 1894 he 
 printed a collection of his poems, entitled " My 
 Garden Walk. ' ' It was intended chiefly for private 
 distribution and as memorial for his family and 
 friends. But it has reached a wide circle of readers, 
 and has its circle of admirers who regard with 
 favor the versatility of the author and his clearness, 
 force, and melody of expression. 
 
 Colonel Johnston published in 1896, what might 
 be considered a supplement to this volume, under 
 the title of ' ' Pictures of the Patriarchs and other 
 Poems." This little book of verse contains in 
 addition to the titular portion a second part of 
 
120 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 devotional verse and new versions and paraphrases 
 of some of the psalms. It is deservedly very pop- 
 ular with the many who respond to its spiritual 
 melody. 
 
 But although Colonel Johnston is a distinguished 
 literateur, his chief work has been done as an edu- 
 cator. In 1880 he accepted the presidency of the 
 Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, and 
 thoroughly reorganized and re-established that 
 institution, which had been for some time in a 
 chaotic state, and had only thirty-nine students 
 when he took charge of it. When, in 1883, Paul 
 Tulane, the great philanthropist, made to Louisi- 
 ana his princely gift, Colonel Johnston was 
 requested by the Administrators of the Tulane 
 Educational Fund to organize and take charge of 
 the institution to be founded. The result was the 
 merging, in 1884, of the University of Louisiana 
 into the Tulane University, which in all its 
 branches stands as the greatest university in the 
 Southwest. Colonel Johnston's administration as 
 president is broad and conservative. He has 
 endeavored to build up an institution in which the 
 theory of an ideal university should be adapted to 
 actual existing conditions. He has encouraged all 
 literary, scientific and artistic societies, and his 
 enlightened course in that direction has been of 
 immense advantage to New Orleans. The univer- 
 sity is now doing a great work. It embraces Law 
 and Medical Departments, a Woman's College, a 
 College of Arts and Sciences, and one of Tech- 
 nology, a worthy monument indeed to the munifi- 
 cent founder and the efficient organizer. 
 
William Preston Johnston. 121 
 
 Washington and Lee University in 1877 con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of LL- D. , and he has 
 for a number of years been one of the Regents of 
 the Smithsonian Institution. 
 
 In character he is all that the record of his life 
 bespeaks — simple, direct, gentle yet firm, sincere, 
 conscientious and unswerving in the discharge of 
 every duty, and unwavering in friendship, brave 
 and serene in misfortune and bereavement. He is 
 a communicant of the Kpiscopal Church and a 
 God-fearing man without cant. 
 
 Colonel Johston's first wife died on October 19, 
 1885. She was one of the rarest and noblest of 
 women. In April, 1888, Colonel Johnston married 
 Miss Margaret Avery, a lady of culture and refine- 
 ment, and belonging to one of the best Louisiana 
 families. Colonel Johnston's only son, Albert 
 Sidney Johnston, died in 1885, aged twenty-four. 
 He has had five daughters. Three survive. Hen- 
 rietta Preston, wife of Hon. Henry St. George 
 Tucker, of Staunton, Virginia, for four sessions 
 the member of Congress from that district ; Rosa 
 Duncan, married to George A. Robinson, of Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky ; and Margaret Wickliffe, married 
 to Richard Sharpe, Jr., of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl- 
 vania. His eldest daughter, Mary Duncan John- 
 ston, died unmarried, November 25, 1893. His 
 youngest daughter, Caroline Hancock Johnston, 
 married Thomas C. Kinney, of Staunton, Vir- 
 ginia, and died July 26, 1895. Mr. Kinney is, 
 through his mother, a direct descendant of Benja- 
 min Harrison, one of the signers of the Declaration 
 of Independence. J. S. J. 
 
122 The Johnstons of Salisbuey. 
 
 Rosa Elizabeth Duncan was born in New 
 Orleans December 3, 1831. On July 7, 1853, she 
 became the wife of William Preston Johnston. 
 She died October 19, 1885. She was the daughter 
 of Judge John Nicholson Duncan, of New 
 Orleans, Ea., and Mary Jones, his wife. Her 
 father, a gifted and much admired man, died 
 young. He was the son of Abner L. Duncan, a 
 man eminent for wealth, learning and unbounded 
 benevolence, the trusted friend of Andrew Jackson, 
 and his Aide de Camp at the Battle of New Or- 
 leans ; and, during the early part of the century, 
 the acknowledged leader of the New Orleans bar. 
 Abner L,. Duncan came from an old Quaker family 
 of Philadelphia. Mrs. Johnston's mother, Mrs. 
 Mary Duncan, was connected by blood with the 
 Shipman and Edwards families in New Haven, 
 Conn., and also with the children of Bishop 
 Moore. She was a woman of saintly character, 
 and in her youth of great personal beauty. She 
 died at Richmond, Va., in 1864. Mrs. Johnston 
 was a communicant of the Episcopal Church, and 
 lived according to its standards, as taught her at 
 her mother's knee, but devotion, not theology, was 
 her special grace, and her clear-sighted charity 
 saw beyond the pale of creeds or sects. Never 
 was there a nature more affluent in love to 
 all, a more tender and pitiful heart, a freer or more 
 liberal hand in giving, a nobler, purer or more 
 gracious soul. 
 
 She had a stroug'mind, sober judgment and very 
 quick perceptions, including that ready insight into 
 
William Preston Johnston. 123 
 
 human motives and character, which requires to 
 be softened and chastened by the sweet charity, 
 with which she was so abundantly gifted. She 
 had also a very high courage and self-respect, that 
 prevented undue familiarity. Her manners and 
 language were refined, simple and free from any 
 affectation. 
 
 Her temper was pleasant and cheerful, and with 
 great nervous energy she combined vivacity of 
 intellect and animal spirits. She had a wonderful 
 gift of humor, and with it a genuine and keen wit. 
 This never displayed itself in mere play on words, 
 or in imaginative flights, but was the rapid and 
 unconscious movement of a very vivid intellectu- 
 ality. Its expression was often in quaint forms, to 
 which her animated .countenance and significant 
 gesture lent an additional interest. She had the 
 power of picturing a situation with a word. 
 
 Those who remember Rosa Duncan as a girl will 
 recall the perfect symmetry of her dainty figure, 
 her little hands and feet, her nearly regular features, 
 her brown hair an d quiet eyes , her simple beauty un- 
 aided by any artifice, her chaste and elegant attire 
 and rather demure manners, her easy grace in every 
 movement, and the wonderful melody of her voice. 
 As a young mother surrounded by her little chil- 
 dren, no more beautiful picture could be drawn of 
 maternal love and care. Age, care, toil and suf- 
 fering could not rob her of her greatest charms, 
 but they matured and heightened the beauty which 
 shone out from her saintly soul. Her eyes, sad- 
 dened by suffering, retained their softness, her 
 
124 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 voice its sweetness, with an added pathos, and her 
 expressive face and manner were of the sort to 
 which time adds dignity and repose. Her life was 
 a religion. Her memory will be one to those who 
 have loved her. 
 
 Margaret Henshaw Avery, third daughter of 
 Judge Daniel Dudley Avery and Sarah Craig Marsh, 
 his wife, was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 
 October 16, 1848, and married William Preston 
 Johnston, April 25, 1888. Judge Avery was the 
 sou of Doctor Dudley Avery, of Baton Rouge, and 
 his wife, Mary Eliza Browne, of Bath, England. 
 Doctor Avery assisted in the Revolution of the 
 East Florida parishes and served as a surgeon at 
 the Battle of New Orleans. The Averys seem to 
 have been a family of very martial spirit. Doctor 
 Avery's father, Daniel, was a lad in the fight at 
 Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut, where the 
 head of the family, his father, Dudley Avery, was 
 killed. He lies under the Groton monument with 
 sixteen of his kinsmen, also killed there. The 
 family are descendants of James Avery, a com- 
 panion of Governor Winthrop and one of the early 
 settlers of Massachusetts. Mrs. Johnston is also a 
 descendant of Colonel George Denison, mentioned 
 as the ancestor of Mrs. Mary Eaton Johnston and 
 of Richard Sharpe. Mrs. Johnston's mother was 
 the daughter of John Craig Marsh and Eliza Ann 
 Baldwin. Mr. Marsh was a native of Cherry Bank, 
 New Jersey, near the mouth of the Rah way river, 
 where his family had lived from the earliest set- 
 
William Preston Johnston. 125 
 
 tlement of the colony. Eliza Ann Baldwin was a 
 
 descendant of Rapelje, the first white child 
 
 born on Long Island. John Craig Marsh removed 
 (in the earliest years of this century) from New 
 York City, where he had also a residence, to what 
 is now known as Avery's Island, where the family 
 have since maintained their home. 
 
 Mrs. Johnston passed through the trials of 
 the war as a young, but observant, girl ; and 
 later on the care and nurture of her brother's 
 four children fell to her, owing to the death 
 of their mother. She did not marry until this 
 duty was fully and faithfully discharged. Since 
 her marriage she has been an active member 
 of the most important literary, benevolent and 
 social movements in New Orleans ; she was Presi- 
 dent of the Women's Anti-lottery League, which 
 exerted so powerful an influence on that memor- 
 able contest ; for two years President of the Quar- 
 ante Club, the leading literary society among the 
 ladies of New Orleans ; and is now one of the 
 Executive Committee of the Christian Women's 
 Exchange, and a member of many other charitable 
 organizations. This is not the place to speak of 
 her high qualities and personal attractions. But 
 a sketch of her husband would be incomplete 
 without some account of a lady who has done so 
 much to sustain him in his educational and liter- 
 ary work, and to add to the dignity and comfort 
 of his declining years by her poise of character 
 and the sweetness of her disposition. 
 
HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER. 
 
 Henry St. George Tucker, husband of Hen- 
 rietta Preston Johnston (3d), comes of a dis- 
 tinguished family. He was born April 5, 1853, 
 and is the son of Hon. John Randolph Tucker and 
 Eaura Powell, his wife. Henry St. George Tucker 
 represented the Staunton, Virginia (Tenth) Dis- 
 trict in the United States House of Representatives 
 for four sessions, from March 4, 1889, to March 4, 
 1897. He withdrew voluntarily from politics in 
 1896, owing to a difference of opinion with his 
 party on the financial question. His father, John 
 Randolph Tucker, born December 24, 1823, rep- 
 resented the same district from 1876-7 to 1885-7 — 
 ten years. He was thrice Attorney General of 
 Virginia, and after the close of his congressional 
 career, was Professor of Daw at Washington and 
 Dee University. He died February 13, 1897, one 
 of the most beloved of public men in the South. 
 The line of descent in this family presents one of 
 the most remarkable in this country of a persist- 
 ence of type. 
 
 J. R. Tucker's father, Henry St. George Tucker, 
 Sr., was a member of Congress (1815-19), was Presi- 
 dent of the Virginia Court of Appeals, Professor 
 of Eaw at the University of Virginia, and Chair- 
 man of its Faculty, and wrote a Commentary on 
 the Constitution of the United States. His wife, 
 
Henry St. George Tucker. 127 
 
 Evelina Hunter, was a granddaughter of Adam 
 Stephens, a General officer in the Revolutionary 
 Army. Judge Tucker was the son of St. George 
 Tucker, a young Bermudan, who emigrated to 
 Virginia about 1770, and was an officer of the 
 Revolutionary Army. He was wounded at Guil- 
 ford Court House and present at the surrender of 
 Cornwallis as the Lieutenant Colonel of a troop of 
 horse. He was Judge of the Court of Appeals of 
 Virginia, and afterward Judge of the District 
 Court of the United States. He was the first com- 
 mentator on the Constitution of the United States. 
 He published an edition of Blackstone with anno- 
 tations. His book has always been considered of 
 the highest authority. He married the Widow 
 Randolph, mother of John Randolph, of Roanoke, 
 Virginia, who was the daughter of that Richard 
 Bland, pronounced by Hugh Grigsby as the man in 
 the Colonial House of Burgesses best acquainted 
 with the legal and political relations between the 
 colonies and the mother country. St. George 
 Tucker's attention may have been turned toward 
 constitutional questions by Richard Bland's in- 
 fluence, but his kinsmen in Great Britain have 
 been writers on similar topics in regard to India. 
 Iv'aura Powell, the mother of H. St. George Tucker, 
 is the descendant of Revolutionary ancestors in IyOU- 
 don county, Virginia, of large wealth, influence 
 and patriotic zeal. But the record of these families 
 is matter of public history. 
 
GEORGE ANDERSON ROBINSON. 
 
 George Anderson Robinson, born January 
 5, 1858, son of Richard A. and Eliza Denne Rob- 
 inson. Married September 30, 1880, Rosa Duncan 
 Johnston, born December 9, 1858, third daughter 
 of Colonel William Preston Johnston and Rosa 
 Duncan Johnston. 
 
 Alexander Robinson was the first of the fam- 
 ily in America. He was born in 1750, in the 
 County of Armagh, near the city of Londonderry, 
 Ireland, and died in Baltimore, Md., August 9, 
 1845, aged 95 years. He married Priscilla Booth 
 (nee Lyles), widow of Robert Booth (who was 
 lost at sea). Priscilla Booth was born in 1760 
 and died July 7, 1 790 . 1809. 
 
 Lyles Robert Robinson, born June 4, 1790, 
 died September 21, 1834, eldest son of Alexander 
 and Priscilla Robinson, of Baltimore, Maryland. 
 Married November 9, 1813, Catherine Worthing- 
 ton Goldsborough, born June 10, 1894 >' died 
 December 10, 1828 (daughter of Dr. Richard and 
 Achsah Goldsborough, of Cambridge, Maryland). 
 
 Richard Alexander Robinson, born October 
 23, 1814, near Winchester, Virginia, son of 
 Lyles Robert and Catherine Worthington Robin- 
 
George Anderson Robinson. 129 
 
 son. Married June i, 1842, Eliza Denne Pettet, 
 born November 30, 1822 ; died December 15, 
 1 891. Daughter of William F. and Mary S. 
 Pettet, of Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. R. A. Rob- 
 inson has been recognized as one of the best citi- 
 zens Louisville every had. His deep and sincere 
 piety, his profuse, but unostentatious benevolence, 
 his kindness of heart and amiability of temper 
 have thrown a halo around his character, while 
 his sound business judgment and excellent social 
 qualities have given him and his seven sons a 
 leading position in the commercial world. No one 
 has done more for Louisville, and claimed less 
 credit for it, than R. A. Robinson. 
 
RICHARD SHARPE, Jr. 
 
 Richard Sharpe, Jr., son of Richard Sharpe and 
 his wife Sally Patterson, was born June 3, 1852, at 
 Summit Hill, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, and 
 was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, 
 Yale University, in 1875. Mr. Sharpe inherited 
 large interests from his father in the anthracite 
 coal fields and is a director and the treasurer of the 
 Alden Coal Company. He is also one of the 
 trustees of the Wyoming Historical and Geologi- 
 cal Society of Pennsylvania, and a member of the 
 Executive Committee of the Wilkesbarre City 
 Hospital. Richard Sharpe, the father, son of 
 Richard and Mary A. Sharpe, was born at Lang- 
 ham, Rutlandshire, England, April 10, 1813, and 
 died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 21, 1895. He 
 came to America with his father in 1826, when he 
 was thirteen years old. His mother had died in 
 England and is buried in the burying-ground of the 
 ancient church of the village of Eangham. He 
 was one of the earlier pioneers in the mining of 
 anthracite coal and this business he pursued with 
 credit and success up to the time of his death. He 
 was a man of broad views and philanthropic spirit 
 and munificent in his charities. Sally Patterson, 
 the mother, was a daughter of Thomas Patterson, 
 formerly of Londonderry, Ireland, and his wife 
 Mary Denison, who was a daughter of Col. Nathan 
 
Richard Sharpe, Jr. 181 
 
 Denison, one of the " forty settlers " of Wyoming 
 Valley from Connecticut, who rendered distin- 
 guished service in the Wyoming Valley during the 
 American Revolution . He was second in command 
 at Forty Fort, and at the battle with the British 
 and Indians, which was followed by the " Mas- 
 sacre of Wyoming," he negotiated the articles of 
 capitulation. Colonel Denison was a member of 
 the Committee of Correspondence, an Associate 
 Judge and a member of the General Assemblies of 
 Connecticut and afterward of Pennsylvania. He 
 was of a very old Connecticut family. Mrs. Sharpe 
 is seventh in the descent from Col. George Deni- 
 son, born 1618, died 1694, who attained distinction 
 in the colonial wars in Connecticut and Rhode 
 Island. He was a representative for fifteen ses- 
 sions at the General Court at Hartford, 1671-1694. 
 His descendants still live on some of the land 
 granted him for military service. 
 
FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 JAMES AND ANNA MARIA BYERS. 
 
 MARY GRAHAM JOHNSTON, ANNA 
 MARIA BYERS 
 
 AND 
 
 J. STODDARD BYERS. 
 
THE BYERS FAMILY. 
 
 Dr. John Johnston's third wife was the widow 
 of John Byers. Her maiden name was Mary 
 Graham, and she was of the Scotch-Irish family 
 of Graham, so prominent in the annals of the 
 Valley of Virginia. She is mentioned by some 
 acquaintances as the mother of nine children ; by 
 others, of eleven. Among the children of her 
 first husband were Mary Ann Byers, who mar- 
 ried a Mr. Henderson ; David Edmond Byers, 
 and James Byers. The children of Dr. Johnston 
 and Mary Graham Johnston were Wm. Graham 
 Johnston, who died April 18, 1810, aged eight 
 months and one day, and Louisa Matilda John- 
 ston, who died February 25, 1826, aged nine- 
 teen years. Mrs. Johnston died August 2, 1832, 
 and her husband survived her only a few months, 
 till October 25, 1832. Mrs. Johnston was of a 
 somewhat delicate constitution, and lacked her 
 husband's buoyancy of temper, but she was a most 
 estimable lady. 
 
 One of Mrs. Byers' sons, James Byers, married 
 his step-sister, Anna Maria Johnston, eldest 
 daughter of Dr. Johnston's second wife. They 
 had a numerous family, the surviving branches of 
 which will be given herein. Mr. James Byers was 
 a considerable farmer and man of business. He was 
 member of the State Legislature, aud was also an 
 
136 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 officer in the war of 1812. He was much esteemed 
 by his brothers-in-law, and at one time visited 
 Louisiana with the intention of settling near Josiah 
 S. Johnston, but was turned aside from his purpose 
 by the death of that gentleman. Later he went to 
 Texas by the invitation of General A. S. Johnston, 
 with the view of making that State his home, but 
 on his return home he had a fever which termi- 
 nated his life. His family remained in Maysville, 
 Kentucky, and were brought up under the care of 
 their mother. 
 
 Anna Maria Johnston, wife of James Byers, was 
 in her youth a woman of great personal attractions. 
 Tall and with a stately presence, her dark hair, 
 blue eyes, pure complexion and regular features 
 rendered her a striking figure. Her manner was 
 gentle, her temper vivacious but amiable, and her 
 character exalted in tone. She preserved her fine 
 qualities to a great age and was throughout her 
 long life the object of love and solicitude from her 
 brothers and sisters and her children. 
 
 Her fourth child and eldest son, Josiah Stoddard 
 Byers, was a man of marked individuality. He 
 was born in Mason county, Kentuck}', October 3, 
 1824, and died a man of wide experience and a 
 veteran of two wars, at the comparatively early 
 age of 54. Entering the United States Navy in 
 1841, being then in his seventeenth year, he served 
 successively on the steamer Mississippi, the Vin- 
 cennes, the Somers, the Vandalia and the United 
 States Frigate "Congress." His warrant as mid- 
 shipman bears date of January 14, 1843, and his 
 
The Byers Family. 137 
 
 resignation as passed midshipman is dated August 
 13, 1849. His service in the Navy covers a period 
 of eight years, embracing the Mexican war. In 
 1846, Commodore Stockton, having sailed for the 
 Pacific Coast, because of the prospect of war with 
 Mexico, reached Monterey in California about the 
 same time that John C. Fremont, who had been 
 sent to survey the country, reached the same 
 place, the hostility of the Governor and Mexican 
 inhabitants compelling him to return to the 
 coast for supplies. With the assistance of Com- 
 modore Stockton, Fremont succeeded in forcing the 
 Mexicans into the southern part of the country. Mr. 
 Byers' ship belonging to the squadron, he was 
 actively engaged in these enterprises. In his official 
 report General Fremont mentioned the efficiency of 
 Midshipman Byers, who was sent in command of 
 the United States boat furnished by the Commodore 
 for river service and exploration. The squadron 
 was ordered to the Gulf of Mexico during hos- 
 tilities between the two countries and at the 
 bombardment of Vera Cruz, as well as in the naval 
 combats, in which his ship, the Congress, cap- 
 tured several prizes, Mr. Byers bore a gallant part, 
 helping to win the great Western country. These 
 repeated hardships and exposures resulted in an 
 almost fatal attack of fever during a cruise on the 
 Pacific Coast. Mr. Byers was so ill that Commo- 
 dore Shubrick sent him to Honolulu, hoping that 
 the climate would benefit him. His convalescence 
 was slow; and, fearing that his health was perma- 
 nently impaired, Mr. Byers deemed it his duty to 
 retire from the service, and forwarded his resigna- 
 
188 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 tion to the department from Honolulu, August 13, 
 1849. He left the island, when after a stay of sev- 
 eral months his health was sufficiently restored for 
 him to do so, and sailed for San Francisco, where 
 he found the gold fever at its height, and tried 
 with indifferent success to find his fortune there. 
 But in 1852, when he heard that his younger 
 brother, James Byers, had met an untimely death 
 in Maysville, Ky., Mr. Byers hastened homeward 
 to assume the care of his mother and sisters. 
 Arrived at Paducah, whither the family had 
 removed from the old home in Mason county, Mr. 
 Byers was enabled to establish himself in business, 
 by means of his share of prize money which 
 awaited him in Washington, and he entered upon 
 a prosperous career, which continued until the war 
 of 1 86 1. On July 19 of that year Mr. Byers 
 enlisted in the service of the Confederacy as cap- 
 tain in the Third Kentucky Regiment. He 
 became a prominent officer in the commissary 
 department, in which he displayed such energy, 
 adminisrative ability and unswerving integrity, 
 that toward the close of the war he was selected for 
 the most difficult and important spheres of duty. 
 L,ike the rest of us, the sun went down with him 
 at the close of the war. Struggling vainly with 
 broken health and fortune, amid the wreck of all 
 interests, he died near Atlanta, Ga., December 9, 
 1878. L,oyal and tender in nature, he could be a 
 stern foe if necessary, while he was as true to his 
 friends as the needle to the pole. Of his children 
 only one survived, Anthony Stoddard Byers, now 
 of Atlanta, Ga. 
 
The Btbbs Pamilt. 188 
 
 On November 15, 1854, Mr. Byers was married 
 to Jane I,eeper Johnson, granddaughter of Dr. 
 John Milton Johnson, who was a man of note and 
 influence in the pioneer days of Southwestern 
 Kentucky. His sons became distinguished in both 
 civil and military life. Of these Judge James Iy. 
 Johnson, of Owensboro, may be mentioned. Also 
 General Richard W. Johnson, graduate of West 
 Point, who won enviable reputation during the war 
 as an officer in the Union army, while he evinced 
 a magnanimous temper in his treatment of his 
 opponents. Mr. Byers' father-in-law, Dr. John M. 
 Johnson, a man of great personal popularity, well 
 and favorably known throughout Kentucky, was 
 State Senator before the war, and became a mem- 
 ber of the Confederate Provisional State govern- 
 ment of Kentucky, and though his political career 
 was cut short by the part he took in the war, he 
 commanded a high place in public esteem in 
 Georgia, where he spent the remainder of his days. 
 Dr. Johnson's first wife, the mother of Mrs. Josiah 
 Stoddard Byers, was Miss Elizabeth Prince Earle, 
 of South Carolina, whose ancestors came from 
 England to Virginia in 1654, and successively held 
 positions of high trust and honor during both the 
 Colonial and Revolutionary periods. Judge Baylis 
 Earle, an officer in the War of the Revolution, and 
 the first judge commissioned in South Carolina 
 after the war, was the maternal great-grandfather 
 of Mrs. Josiah Stoddard Byers. 
 
 The only surviving child of Josiah Stoddard 
 Byers and Jane I,eeper Byers is Anthony Stoddard 
 Byers, manufacturer, of Atlanta, Ga. 
 
FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN ALEXANDER McCLUNG 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZA JOHNSTON McCLUNG. 
 
 McCLUNG, BIEGLER, BROWNING, 
 COLEMAN. 
 
THE McCIvUNG FAMILY. 
 
 Eliza, seventh child of Dr. John Johnston and 
 Abigail Harris Johnston, was born February 9, 
 1806, married John Alexander McClung, October 
 8, 1825, and died at St. Paul, Minn., December 
 28, i860. Though her life was taken up with 
 the duties of wife and mother, she was highly 
 esteemed and loved for the same high qualities 
 that marked her brothers. Her personal re- 
 semblance to her brother, Albert Sidney John- 
 ston, was very striking. Married in her youth 
 to the son of a friend and neighbor, she became 
 at once the strong support to one of the most 
 intellectual men of his day in Kentucky. John 
 A. McClung was the son of Judge William 
 McClung, a native of Augusta county, Va., and a 
 scion of that sturdy Scotch-Irish breed that has 
 done so much for religion and law in the United 
 States. He was eminent in his profession and 
 married a sister of Chief Justice Marshall, so that 
 his descendants had a hereditary title to virtue and 
 talents. John A. McClung won distinction at the 
 bar as an orator and jurist, and was also esteemed 
 as a writer. He wrote a historical novel on a 
 revolutionary theme, " Camden," which had con- 
 siderable repute in its day; also a book, " Sketches 
 of Western Adventure," of which there were many 
 editions and which is widely read at the present 
 
144 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 time. Three copies, well worn with much hand- 
 ling, can be found in the St. Paul Library to-day. 
 But he was essentially an idealist and philan- 
 thropist, and to this may be attributed his leaving 
 the law in middle life and becoming a minister of 
 the Presbyterian Church. He at once took a lead- 
 ing position as a preacher of its doctrines and 
 readily commanded important charges in its minis- 
 try. His altruistic temper was easily rated as 
 eccentricity by the practical men of his day. 
 
 His only son, John William McClung, exhibited 
 in a very remarkable way his likeness to his father 
 in character, modified by tremendous energy for the 
 application of his ideas to actually existing things 
 and conditions. Both men were too positive to be 
 universally popular ; both were too public-spirited, 
 too earnest ior the welfare of their fellow-men, not 
 to command esteem and admiration. Neither of 
 them brooked opposition readily, and there were 
 few compromises in their convictions or conduct. 
 
 John William McClung, born November 21, 
 1826, near Maysville, Kentucky, educated at Cen- 
 ter andTransylvania Colleges in Kentucky, married 
 Mary Roberts Allen, June 5, 1851, and moved to 
 St. Paul in 1855, where he engaged in law and 
 real estate business. He became involved in debt 
 through fire losses and struggled twenty years in 
 order to pay a hundred cents on the dollar, which 
 he finally did He shared his father's views 
 respecting emancipation and gave their freedom to 
 a family of slaves in which he was interested. He 
 
The McClung Family. 145 
 
 organized the first Building Association west 
 of Chicago in September, 1869, and managed it 
 till his death. He was known as the " father " of 
 these associations in the Northwest, and frequently 
 aided by his pen and by lectures new associations 
 to get a start. Over 10,000 homes in St. Paul 
 alone have been built in whole or in part through 
 the aid of these associations. 
 
 From 1868 to 1870 he was editor of the old 
 Pioneer, one of the principal newspapers of 
 the State, now the Pioneer- Press, and gained a 
 wide reputation as a bright, pungent and witty 
 writer, under the nom de plume of " Merrimac." 
 He was always a liberal contributor to the local 
 press and was author of a book entitled ' ' Minne- 
 sota as it is in 1870," which had a good sale, and 
 was of great advantage to Minnesota in advertising 
 its resources. He was a firm believer in immi- 
 gration (of the right sort) as a means of building 
 up and developing the Northwest, and did as 
 much, probably, as any other one man in carrying 
 out this idea. 
 
 From 1 87 1 to his death he was a member of the 
 St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, the most impor- 
 tant unofficial body in the city for many years, and 
 was prominent in affairs of public interest. The 
 matter of public parks, the annexation of West 
 St. Paul, the extension of the city limits, the West 
 St. Paul harbor, and the securing of the State fair 
 grounds in St. Paul, counted him among their 
 most enthusiastic originators, and these are only a 
 few of the measures he inaugurated for the benefit 
 
146 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 of St. Paul. Como Park especially was the result 
 of his park agitation. He introduced the first 
 resolution in the Chamber of Commerce, which 
 resulted in securing the Fort Snelling bridge and 
 the first and subsequent Mississippi River Conven- 
 tions. 
 
 He was largely instrumental in securing the 
 appropriation for the bridge and the improvement 
 of the upper Mississippi. He attended several of 
 the river conventions as a delegate from Minne- 
 sota ; was county commissioner in i860, assessor 
 for three terms of two years each, clerk of the 
 Board of Public Works in 1872, and was originally 
 interested in establishing the St. Paul Library 
 Association, now the Public Library. 
 
 He was ever active in inaugurating and carrying 
 out measures for the good of the city, even neg- 
 lecting his own business to do so. His assess- 
 ments for taxes are noted to this day (1896) as the 
 fairest in Ramsey county for thirty years. He 
 nearly doubled the personal property assessment, 
 and made very many pay who had before been 
 escaping altogether. He was noted for his deter- 
 mination, honesty, independence, originality, wit 
 and fearlessness in the expression of his opinions. 
 The following quotation is from the pen of John D. 
 O'Brien, in an editorial in N. W. Chronicle com- 
 menting on the real estate men's banquet (1896), 
 eight years after McClung's death: " He did 
 much to shape the city's destiny, a man of most 
 interesting personality, with those whimsical odd- 
 ities of manner and speech that almost always 
 
The McClung Family. 147 
 
 mark the man of originality or genius. He was a 
 many sided man and had qualities that would make 
 up a half dozen ' prominent citizens,' as we rate 
 them in these times. His kindly esteem, buoyant 
 disposition and broad intelligence made a delight- 
 fully compound character — dreamer, philanthro- 
 pist and man of business. He, more than any 
 one else, was instrumental in encouraging the 
 movement to advertise our advantages to the out- 
 side world that induced the immigration to which 
 General Bishop said : ' We owe all our present and 
 past prosperity. ' ' ' 
 
 A list of his contributions to the press evinces 
 the peculiar bent of his mind. They consist of 
 memorials of heroism in lowly life, pleas for muni- 
 cipal or individual aid to benevolent enterprises, 
 orphan asylums, serving girls' home, and cheap 
 fuel; arguments and statistics for plans of immi- 
 gration, building associations and other civic 
 needs and numerous and pointed articles on poli- 
 tics. Whatever concerned the public concerned 
 him, and found in him a very decided advocate. 
 In politics, he was usually on the unpopular side, 
 , a gradual emancipationist in Kentucky and a 
 Democrat in Minnesota. While unwilling to hold 
 slaves himself, the magnanimity of his nature led 
 him to protest against ungenerous attacks on the 
 South and its people, and sometimes led him into 
 personal complications. He was a great loss to the 
 active, enterprising community whose early destiny 
 he had a large share in shaping. His family look 
 back with pride and reverence to him as one not 
 unworthy of his ancestry. 
 
148 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Mr. McClung was peculiarly fortunate in his 
 choice of a wife. On June 5, 1 851, he married 
 Mary Roberts Allen. This lady, born July 16, 
 1830, at Natchez, Mississippi, was the daughter of 
 William Sanford Allen and Mary Roberts, his 
 wife. Mr. Allen was the son of William Allen and 
 his wife Fanny Pepper, early settlers of Kentucky, 
 who had their home two miles from Maysville, 
 Mason county, Kentucky. Mrs. McClung's father 
 was a large farmer, owning three fine farms near 
 Maysville, Kentucky. He was born about 1800 
 and died at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1865. 
 
 Mrs. McClung was during her husband's life 
 his strong stay and support. Her common sense, 
 high principles, sweetness of disposition and patient 
 readiness to take up all the duties that fall to a 
 wife and mother served as supplement to her hus- 
 band's original, vehement and expansive genius. 
 Her Christian influence has radiated beyond the 
 immediate circle of her family and is felt by a 
 large circle of friends. 
 
 Elizabeth, the second child of the Reverend 
 John A. McClung and his wife, was a very intel- 
 lectual woman, of the most amiable and estimable 
 character. She was born in Mason county, Ken- 
 tucky, November 15, 1829. On November 2, 1852, 
 she was married to Major George Thomas Brown- 
 ing in Indianapolis, Indiana, and died at St. Paul, 
 Minnesota, July 19, 1882. Major Browning was 
 a native of West Union, Ohio, where he was born 
 December 5, 1820. 
 
The McClung Family. 149 
 
 Of Mrs. Browning, it was said by her pastor : 
 " Mrs. Browning shared largely in the gifts ol her 
 distinguished father, as those who have had the 
 privilege of listening by the hour to her charm- 
 ing conversation will gladly bear testimony. But 
 this was not all. As daughter, wife, mother, and 
 friend, she was simply admirable. Genius she 
 had, but it was associated with strong, broad, 
 good sense, and with a warm, loving and true 
 heart. The education of her son and daughter 
 was wholly in her own hands till they passed to 
 the higher grades of the public schools. It was 
 her joy and pride to make home the pleasantest 
 spot in the world to her children and her husband. 
 At this home fireside, music, literature, science, 
 the world's progress, social life around her, all 
 were freely taught or discussed. Her religion per- 
 vaded all she said and did, not as a thing to be 
 much talked about, but to be seen and felt in her 
 habitual daily life." 
 
 Major and Mrs. Browning left two children. 
 Their eldest child, Eliza McClung, was born Jan- 
 uary 9, 1854; died October 29, 1886. She was 
 much admired in St. Paul when a girl for beauty 
 and talents. She was married to Nicholas D. Cole- 
 man, of New Orleans, I,a., October 6, 1875. Their 
 children, are I,loyd Ruffin, son, born November 26, 
 1876, and Browning, daughter, born October 3, 1883. 
 
 Nicholas D. Coleman is the son of L,loyd R. 
 Coleman, of New Orleans, the grandson of James 
 Coleman of Kentucky, and the great-grandson of 
 Col. Daniel Coleman, of Caroline county, Va. 
 
150 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 James Coleman married Elizabeth Warfield, 
 August 3, 1797, of the wealthy and powerful family 
 of that name in Fayette county, Ky. By the 
 maternal side Lloyd R. Coleman was closely con- 
 nected with Chief Justice Marshall. The family 
 has always been one of high standing and respect- 
 ability. 
 
 Granville Williams, second child of Major 
 Browning and wife, was born at Indianapolis, 
 Indiana, March 14, 1856, grew to manhood in 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, graduated at the University 
 of Michigan, and is now practising law in 
 Chicago. He was formerly a partner of the late 
 Judge Samuel Moore, of Chicago, and is now a 
 member of the well-known firm of Woolfolk & 
 Browning. Mr. Browning ran on the Democratic 
 ticket for District Judge of Cook County Court. 
 The Democrats were defeated, owing in a great 
 measure to the panic caused by the murder of the 
 leader of their party, Major Carter Harrison. He 
 is unmarried. 
 
 Susan, seventh child of John A. and Eliza 
 McClung, was born November 25, 1838, and died 
 at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14, 1892. She was 
 a woman of brilliant attainments, inheriting in a 
 marked degree her father's gifts. She was a fine 
 writer, with a remarkable memory, most attractive 
 in conversation, and with strict religious convic- 
 tions, and but for the misfortune of a complete loss 
 of health in early life, would have made her mark 
 in the literary world. 
 
PART SECOND. 
 
 GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 
 
 THE JOHNSTONS OF SALISBURY. 
 
GENERATION I. 
 
 Archibald Johnston, bora 1732, died February 
 14,1789; married Sarah , who was born 
 
 1736, died April 10, 1810. 
 
 Children : 
 
 A. James Johnston. 
 
 B. Daniel Johnston. 
 
 C. John Johnston. 
 
 D. Archibald Johnston the Second. 
 
 E. Samuel Berry Johnston. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 A. James Johnston, married Eydia , 
 who died February 25, 1804, at Salisbury, Conn. 
 
 Children : 
 
 1. Walter, or Edward Walter; married 1803 or 1806, 
 at Salisbury, Conn. ; died at Canfield, Ohio, Decem- 
 ber 2, 1849. Names of children unknown. 
 
 2. Sarah, married Capt. Ebenezer Mis, who died at 
 Canfield. Ohio, November 21, 1839, aged 63 years. 
 N"o children. 
 
 3. Herman (?) son, grandson or nephew of James 
 Johnston. 
 
 B. Daniel Johnston, married Polly , 
 who was born 1764, and died January 22, 1824. 
 
 Only child: 
 
 4. Herman, born , died December 22, 1839. 
 
 C. John Johnston, born July i, 1762; died 
 October 25, 1832; married: 
 
 1st. Mary Stoddard, born August 5, 1762; mar- 
 ried in September, 1783; died April 8, 1794. 
 
154 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Children : 
 
 5. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, "born November 25, 1784; 
 married Eliza Sibley, 1814; died May 19, 1833. 
 
 6. Electra Maria Johnston, born March 8,1788; died 
 in infancy in Salisbury. 
 
 7. Darius Stoddard Johnston, born July 24, 1789; died 
 
 , 1819; unmarried. 
 
 8. Horace Johnston, born August 10, 1792 ; died ; 
 unmarried. 
 
 9. Orramel Johnston, born March 4,1793; died about 
 1826; unmarried. 
 
 2d. Dr. John Johnston's second wife was Abi- 
 gail Harris, born April 20, 1770; married in July, 
 1794; died November 29, 1806. 
 
 Children: 
 
 10. John Harris Johnston, born May, 1795; married 
 3Eliza Ellen Davidson, April 12; 1830 ; died August 2, 
 1838. 
 
 11. Alfred Johnston, born November 27, 1796; died 
 1819; unmarried. 
 
 12. Lucius Johnston, born October 13, 1797 ; died 1819 ; 
 unmarried. 
 
 13. Anna Maria Johnston, born May 21, 1799; married 
 James Byers December 19, 1815 ; died September 19, 
 1883. 
 
 14. Clarissa Johnston, born April 2, 1801; died ; 
 unmarried. 
 
 15. Albert Sidney Johnston, born February 2, 1803; 
 married : 1st. Henrietta Preston, January 20, 1829. 
 2d. Eliza Griffin, October 3, 1843; died April 6, 
 1862. 
 
 16. Eliza Johnston, born February 9, 1805; married 
 John A. McClung, October, 1825; died December 
 28, 1860. 
 
 17. Abigail Johnston, born November 19, 1806; died 
 December 31, 1806. 
 
Genealogical Tables. 155 
 
 3d. Dr. John Johnston's third wife was Mary 
 Graham Byers (widow of James Byers), who died 
 August 2, 1832. 
 
 Children : 
 
 18. Louisa Johnston, born October 9, 1807 ; died Feb- 
 ruary 26, 1826 ; unmarried. 
 
 19. William Graham Johnston, born August 1, 1809; 
 died April 18, 1810. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 5. Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1st) U. S. 
 Senator from Louisiana, eldest son of Dr. John 
 Johnston and Mary Stoddard Johnston, born No- 
 vember 25, 1784; married in 1814, Eliza Sibley, 
 daughter of Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, 
 Louisiana ; died May 19, 1833. 
 
 After the death of Senator Johnston Mrs. John- 
 ston married ex- Attorney General H. D. Gilpin, 
 of Philadelphia, and died February 12, 1874. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 20. William Stoddard Johnston ( 1st) was the only 
 child of Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1st) and Eliza 
 Sibley Johnston. He was born about 1816, and died 
 September 23, 1839 ; He married Maria Williams, 
 daughter of Archibald Pierce Williams and Eliza- 
 beth Routh Williams, of Rapides parish, Louis- 
 iana, who died January 21, 1883. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 21. William Stoddard Johnston (2d) was the 
 only son of William Stoddard Johnston (1st) and 
 
156 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Maria Williams Johnston. He was born December 
 7, 1839, and educated by Mr. and Mrs. Gilpin, of 
 Philadelphia. He served during the Sectional 
 War in Company A, Seventeenth Virginia Infan- 
 try, Col. Corse. He retired from business and 
 resides in Philadelphia. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 10. John Harris Johnston, eldest son of Dr. John 
 Johnston and Abigail Harris, his second wife ; 
 married Eliza Ellen Davidson, April 12, 1830 ; 
 died August 2, 1838. 
 
 Children : 
 
 22. John Pintard Johnston. 
 
 23. .Tosiah Stoddard Johnston (2d). 
 
 24. Harris Hancock Johnston. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 22. John Pintard Johnston, born May 31, 1831 ; 
 died July 12, 1849 ; unmarried. 
 
 23. Josiah Stoddard Johnston (2d), born Feb- 
 ruary 10, 1833 ; married Eliza Woolfolk Johnson 
 July 13, 1854. 
 
 Their children were : 
 
 25. George Washington Johnston. 
 
 26. Mary Hancock Johnston. 
 
 27. Eliza Ellen Johnston. 
 
 28. Harris Hancock Johnston. 
 
 29. Josiah Stoddard Johnston (3d). 
 
 24. Harris Hancock Johnston, born near Alex- 
 andria, La. , November 5, 1836; married Anna 
 
Genealogical Tables. 157 
 
 Brooks, June 8, 1859; died May 9, 1877. Left no 
 children. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 Children of Col. J. Stoddard Johnston (2d) and 
 Eliza Woolfolk Johnson : 
 
 25. G-eorge Washington Johnston, born in Scott county, 
 Kentucky, April 24, 1862 ; married Martha Taylor 
 Darling, of Cincinnati, O., October 11, 1893. They 
 have one son, Stoddard Pintard, born in Cincinnati, 
 O., December 8, 1S95. 
 
 26. Mary Hancock Johnston, born in Scott county, 
 Kentucky, August 31, 1866; married in Louisville, 
 Ky., to William B. Wisdom, of New Orleans, La., 
 October 8, 1890. They have one daughter, Eliza 
 Johnston Wisdom, born August 24, 1892. 
 
 28. Eliza Ellen Johnston, born in Frankfort, Ky., Octo- 
 ber 10, 1868; died in Frankfort, Ky., July 28, 1888; 
 unmarried. 
 
 29. Harris Hancock Johnston, of Louisville, Ky., born 
 in Frankfort, Ky., August 19, 1870; unmarried. 
 
 30. Josiah Stoddard Johnston (3d), of Louisville, Ky., 
 born in Frankfort, Ky., August 10, 1872; unmarried. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 13. Albert Sidney Johnston, youngest son of 
 Dr. John Johnston and Abigail Harris, his wife, 
 was born February 2, 1803, at Washington, Mason 
 county, Ky., and was twice married; first to Hen- 
 rietta Preston, January 20, 1829, and second to 
 Eliza Griffin, October 3 , 1 843 . Killed at the battle 
 of Shiloh in command of the Confederate Army, 
 April 6, 1862. 
 
 The children of Albert Sidney Johnston and 
 Henrietta Preston Johnston were: 
 
158 The Johnstons of Salisbubit. 
 
 31. William Preston Johnston. 
 
 32. Henrietta Preston Johnston. 
 
 33. Maria Pope Johnston. 
 
 The children of Albert Sidney Johnston and 
 Eliza Griffin Johnston were: 
 
 34. Albert Sidney Johnston. 
 
 35. Hancock McClung Johnston. 
 
 36. Mary Hancock Johnston. 
 
 37. Margaret Strother Johnston. 
 
 38. Griffin Johnston. 
 
 39. Eliza Alberta Johnston. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 31. William Preston Johnston, eldest son of 
 Albert Sidney Johnston and Henrietta Preston 
 Johnston, his wife, was born January 5, 1831, at 
 Eouisville, Ky. ; married (first) Rosa Elizabeth 
 Duncan, July 7, 1853, and (second) Margaret 
 Henshaw Avery, April 25, 1888. 
 
 The children of William Preston Johnston and 
 Rosa Duncan Johnston were : 
 
 40. Mary Duncan Johnston. 
 
 41. Henrietta Preston Johnston. 
 
 42. Kosa Duncan Johnston. 
 
 43. Albert Sidney Johnston. 
 
 44. Margaret Wickliffe Johnston. 
 
 45. Caroline Hancock Johnston. 
 
 There are no children of the second marriage. 
 
 32. Henrietta Preston Johnston, eldest 
 daughter of Albert Sidney Johnston and Henrietta 
 Preston Johnston, was born April 18, 1832, at Jef- 
 son Barracks, Missonri ; unmarried. 
 
 33. Maria Pope Johnston, youngest child of 
 Albert Sidney Johnston and Henrietta Preston 
 
Genealogical Tables. 159 
 
 Johnston, was born October 28, 1833, at Jefferson 
 Barracks, Missouri; died at Hay field, Jefferson 
 county, Kentucky, August 10, 1834. 
 
 34. Albert Sidney Johnston, eldest son of 
 Albert Sidney Johnston and Eliza Griffin Johnston, 
 was born April 8, 1845, near Shelbyville, Ken- 
 tucky, and was killed April 27, 1863, in the explo- 
 sion of the steamboat Ada Hancock, in the port of 
 San Pedro, California. 
 
 35. Hancock McClung Johnston, second son 
 of Albert Sidney Johnston and Eliza Griffin John- 
 ston, was born December 28, 1845, at China Grove 
 Plantation, Brazoria county, Texas ; married Mary 
 Alice Eaton June 28, 1870. 
 
 Children : 
 
 46. Helen Johnston, born August 17, 1871 ; died Novem- 
 ber 26, 1871. 
 
 47. Mary Hancock Johnston, born November 11, 1872; 
 died October, 1893. 
 
 48. Albert Sidney Johnston, born October 26, 1894. 
 
 49. John Griffin Johnston, born October 26, 1877. 
 
 50. Hancock McClung Johnston, born August 26, 1879. 
 
 36. Mary Hancock Johnston, eldest daughter 
 of Albert Sidney Johnston and Eliza Griffin John- 
 ston, was born January 29, 1850, at Galveston, 
 Texas; died November 29, 1850, near Eouisville, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 37. Margaret Strother Johnston, second 
 daughter of Albert Sidney Johnston and Eliza 
 Griffin Johnston, was born December 11, 1851, 
 at Austin, Texas ; married June 6, 1876, William 
 Bond Prichard. They have one child: 
 
 51. Eliza Griffin Prichard, born March 15, 1878; 
 unmarried. 
 
160 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 38. Griffin Johnston, third son of Albert 
 Sidney Johnston and Eliza Griffin Johnston, was 
 born March 21, 1857; died November 25, 1895; 
 married Maud Walton, August 30, 1886. 
 
 Children : 
 
 52. Aileen Johnston, born October 3, 1887. 
 
 53. Grace Margaret Johnston, born April 5, 1890. 
 
 54. Maud Johnston, born 1891; died, 1891. 
 
 39. Eliza Alberta Johnston, youngest child 
 of Albert Sidney Johnston and Eliza Griffin John- 
 ston, was born August 30, 1861 ; married George 
 Jules Denis, November 30, 1885. They have one 
 child: 
 
 55. Alberta Denis, born April 16, 1889. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 40. Mary Duncan Johnston, eldest daughter 
 of William Preston Johnston and Rosa Duncan 
 Johnston, was born January 10, 1855, at Douisville, 
 Ky.; died November 25, 1894; unmarried. 
 
 41. Henrietta Preston Johnston, second 
 daughter of William Preston Johnston and Rosa 
 Duncan Johnston, was born April rg, 1856; mar- 
 ried to Henry St. George Tucker, lawyer of Staun- 
 ton, Va., October 25, 1877. 
 
 Children: 
 
 56. Preston Johnston Tucker, born September 15, 
 1878; died July 2, 1879. 
 
 57. John Randolph Tucker, born October 29, 1879. 
 
 58. Rosa Johnston Tucker, born December 1, 1880. 
 
 59. Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker, born November 12, 
 1885. 
 
 60. Laura Powell Tucker, born December 3, 1892. 
 
 61. Henry St. George Tucker"! (twins), born June 27, 
 
 62. Henrietta Tucker J 1895. 
 
Genealogical Tables. 161 
 
 42. Rosa Duncan Johnston, third daughter of 
 William Preston Johnston and Rosa Duncan John- 
 ston, born December 9, 1858; married to George 
 Anderson Robinson, of Louisville, Ky., September 
 30, 1880. 
 
 Children: 
 
 63. Rosa Johnston Robinson, born June 24, 1881. 
 
 64. Preston Johnston Robinson, born August 29, 1884. 
 
 65. George Anderson Robinson, born July 26, 1887. 
 
 66. Alberta Sidney Robinson, born June 16, 1889. 
 
 43. Albert Sidney Johnston, only son of 
 William Preston Johnston and Rosa Duncan John- 
 ston, was born at the homestead, near Louisville, 
 Ky. , June 21, 1861; died of typhoid fever at Har- 
 risburg, Pa., January 9, 1885, and was buried at 
 Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 44. Margaret Wickljffe Johnston, fourth 
 daughter of William Preston Johnston and Rosa 
 Duncan Johnston, was born at Dill's Farm, near 
 Richmond, Va., July 20, 1864; married Richard 
 Sharpe, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 26, 1892. 
 
 Children: 
 
 67. Rosa Duncan Sharpe, born July 8, 1894. 
 
 68. Elizabeth Montgomery Sharpe, born May 14, 1896. 
 
 45. Caroline Hancock Johnston, youngest 
 child of William Preston Johnston and Rosa Dun- 
 can Johnston, was born August 8, 1866, at Louis- 
 ville, Ky.; married April 24, 1893, Thomas Colston 
 Kinney, a lawyer of Staunton, Va., and more 
 recently of New York City She died at Louis- 
 ville, Ky., July 28, 1895, leaving no children. 
 
162 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 13. Anna Maria Johnston, eldest daughter of 
 Dr. John Johnston and Abigail Harris Johnston, 
 was born April 21, 1799; married James Byers, 
 her step-brother, December 19, 1815 ; and died 
 September 19, 1883. 
 
 Children : 
 
 69. Ann Eliza Byers. 
 
 70. Mary Byers. 
 
 71. John Byers. 
 
 72. Josiah Stoddard Byers. 
 
 73. Louisa Johnston Byers. 
 
 74. Anna Maria Byers. 
 
 75. James Edmund Byers. 
 
 76. Henrietta Preston Byers. 
 
 77. Emma Sidney Byers. 
 
 78. Alberta Johnston Byers. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 69. Ann Eliza Byers, eldest child of James 
 Byers and Anna Maria Byers, born November 20, 
 1816 ; married Henry Dix ; died March 31, 1845. 
 
 Only child : 
 
 79. Elizabeth, born ; married Dr. G. V. Winston. 
 
 70. Mary Byers, second daughter of James and 
 Anna Maria Byers, was born June 1, 1819 ; died 
 July 29, 1820. 
 
 71. John Byers, eldest son of James and Anna 
 Maria Byers, was born June 6, 1823 ; died Decem- 
 ber 13, 1823. 
 
 72. Josiah Stoddard Byers, second son of 
 James and Anna Maria Byers, was born October 
 
Genealogical Tables. 1G3 
 
 3, 1824; married Jane Deeper Johnson November 
 16, 1854 ; died December 9, 1878. 
 
 Children : 
 
 80. John Francis Xavier Byers, born September 9, 
 1855; died February 24, 1S69. 
 
 81. James Joseph Byers, born January 15, 1858; died 
 January 20, 1881. 
 
 82. Sidney Johnston Byers, born April 26,1862; died 
 May 26, 1862. 
 
 83. Elizabeth 31. Byers, born December 4, 18G3; died 
 June 30, 1882. 
 
 84. Anthony Stoddard Byers, born August 12, 1870. 
 
 73. Louisa Johnston Byers, third daughter of 
 James and Anna Maria Byers, was born September 
 27, 1826 ; married William Wallace Dodge ; died 
 May 27, 1862. 
 
 Children : 
 
 85. William Wallace Dodge, died at twelve years of age, 
 
 86. Alberta Dodge, born ; married her cousin, 
 Lloyd Robertson. October 4, 1S80. 
 
 74. Anna Maria Byers, fourth daughter of 
 James Byers and Anna Maria Byers, was born 
 October 10, 1829 ; married William Robertson, 
 December 27, 1855. William Robertson was born 
 November 10, 1807 ; died December 13, 1891. 
 Lived at Paducah, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 87. James E. Robertson. 
 
 88. Lloyd W. Robertson. 
 
 89. Albert Sidney Johnston. 
 
 90. M. Byers Robertson. 
 
 91. Anna Harris Robertson. 
 
 92. Frank B. Robertson. 
 
164 The Johnstons op Salisbury. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 87. James E. Robertson, eldest son of William 
 and Anna Maria Robertson, was born October 31, 
 1856 ; married Rosa Nunn, October 6, 1880 ; one 
 son ; Stoddard Johnston Byers, born July 12, 1881, 
 at Paducah, Ky. 
 
 88. Eeoyd W. Robertson, second son of Will- 
 iam and Anna Maria Robertson, was born August 
 10, 1858 ; married Alberta Dodge, October 4, 1880. 
 
 89. Albert Sidney Johnston, third son of 
 William and Anna Maria Robertson, was born 
 March 29, i860; died 1861. 
 
 90. M. Byers Robertson, fourth son of William 
 and Anna Robertson, was born December 24, 1861 ; 
 married. 
 
 Children : 
 
 93. Lillie May Robertson, died at fourteen years of 
 age. 
 
 94. William Winston Robertson, born 1885. 
 
 Second wife ; married Mary Pugh, September 
 18, 1888. 
 
 Children : 
 
 95. Lloyd Pugh Robertson, born June 28, 1890. 
 
 96. James E. Robertson, born January 23, 1893. 
 
 91. Anna Harris Robertson, only daughter 
 of William and Anna Maria Robertson, born April 
 3, 1865 ; married Ed. E- Reno, May 17, 1887. 
 
 Only child : 
 
 97. Lee Reno, born January 25, 1889. 
 
 72. Erank B. Robertson, fifth son of William 
 and Anna Maria Robertson, born December 11, 
 1866. 
 
Genealogical Tables. 165 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 75. James Edmund Byers, third sou of James 
 Byers, Jr., and Anna Maria Byers, was born June 
 9, 1831 ; died August, 1852 ; unmarried. 
 
 76. Henrietta Preston Byers, fifth daughter 
 of James Byers, Jr., and Anna Maria Byers, was 
 born December 12, 1834 ; died June 21, 1835. 
 
 77. Emma Sidney Byers, sixth daughter of 
 James Byers, Jr., and Anna Maria Byers, was born 
 February 18, 1836 ; married Col. John W. Buford, 
 of Jackson, Tenn. 
 
 Children : 
 
 98. Sidney Buford. 
 
 99. Mary Buford. 
 
 100. John Buford. 
 
 78. Alberta Johnston Byers, seventh daugh- 
 ter of James Byers, Jr., and Anna Maria Johnston, 
 was born July 6, 1840; married Major Frank 
 Watkins, of Opelika, Alabama. 
 
 Children : 
 
 101. Loulie Watkins. 
 
 102. Warren Byers Watkins. 
 
 103. Frank Watkins. 
 
 104. Mary Lea Watkins. 
 
 105. Maria Agnes Watkins. 
 
 106. Graham Watkins. 
 
 107. Walter Goode Watkins. 
 
 108. Sidney Watkins. 
 
 109. Alberta Watkins. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 101. Loulie Watkins, eldest child of Frank 
 Watkins and Alberta Johnston Byers, was born 
 
166 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 September i, 1865; married William Overstreet 
 May 15, 1889. 
 
 Children : 
 
 103. Alberta Overstreet, bom March 4, 1890. 
 
 104. Lila Andrews Overstreet, born August 29, 1892. 
 
 102. Warren Byers Watkins, son of Frank 
 Watkins and Alberta Johnston Byers, was born 
 May 5, 1857 ; married Pearl Banks April 2, 1893. 
 
 103. Frank Watkins, born April 26, 1869; died 
 August 25, 1870. 
 
 104. Mary L,ea Watkins, born April 22, 1873. 
 
 105. Maria Agnes Watkins, born 1870; died 1870. 
 
 106. Graham Watkins, born August 22, 1875 ; 
 died April 3, 1882. 
 
 107. Walter Goode Watkins, born September 29, 
 1877; died June 4, 1878. 
 
 108. Sidney Watkins, born February 17, 1880 ; 
 
 109. Alberta Watkins, born 1883 ; died 1883. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 16. Eliza Johnston, seventh child of John and 
 Abigail Johnston, born February 9, 1806; mar- 
 ried John Alexander McClung, October, 1825; died 
 at St. Paul, Minn., December 28, i860. 
 
 Children: 
 
 110. John William McClung. 
 
 111. Elizabeth McClung. 
 
 112. Mary Eliza McClung. 
 
 113. Anna Maria McClung. 
 
 114. Thomas McClung. 
 
 115. Thomas McClung. 
 
 116. Susan Tarleton McClung. 
 
 117. Anna Marie McClung. 
 
Genealogical Tables. 167 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 no. John William McClung, eldest son of 
 John A. McClung and Eliza Johnston McClung, 
 was born November 21, 1826, at Oakley Farm, 
 Mason county, nine miles from Maysville, Ky. ; 
 married Mary Roberts Allen, June 5, 1851; died 
 May 27, 1888. 
 
 Children. 
 
 118. Mary Eliza McClung. 
 
 119. John Allen McClung. 
 
 120. Albert Sidney Johnston McClung. 
 
 121. Sue Keith McClung. 
 
 122. William Allen McClung. 
 
 123. Harrison Taylor McClung. 
 
 124. Nellie McClung. 
 
 125. Alberta Virginia McClung. 
 
 126. Julia Lee McClung. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 118. Mary Eliza McClung, first child of John 
 William and Mary McClung, was born at Coving- 
 ton, Ky. , May 3, 1852; married Charles A. Biegler, 
 December 24, 1873; died May 1, 1887, at St. Paul 
 (Mr. Biegler was born in Buffalo, N. Y. , June 
 11, 1850). 
 
 Children: 
 
 127. Cameron Allen Biegler, born October 11, 1874. 
 
 128. Sarah Marshall Biegler, born April 6, 1876. 
 
 129. John McClung Biegler, born March 5, 1878. 
 
 130. Philip S. Biegler, born January 30, 1880. 
 
 131. Marion Biegler, born June 25, 1882. 
 
 132. Harold G. Biegler, born June 17, 1886. 
 
 119. John Allen McClung, eldest son of John 
 
168 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 William and Mary Allen McClung, born at 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, March 24, 1855; died at 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, September 11, 1856. 
 
 120. Albert Sidney Johnston McClung, sec- 
 ond son of John William and Mary Allen McClung, 
 born December 20, 1857, in St. Paul, Minnesota ; 
 died September 4, 1859. 
 
 121. Sue Keith McClung, second daughter of 
 John William and Mary Allen McClung, born 
 April 11, i860; died February 23, 1862. 
 
 122. Willian Allen McClung, third son of 
 John William and Mary Allen McClung, born 
 August 3, 1862 ; died April 16, 1864. 
 
 123. Harrison Taylor McClung, fourth son of 
 John William and -Mary Allen McClung, born 
 October 29, 1864 ; married Rose Belle Hamilton, 
 November 9, 1892. 
 
 One child : 
 126. Kathryn McClung, torn October 9, 1895. 
 
 124. Nellie McClung, third daughter of John 
 William and Mary Allen McClung, born May 25, 
 1867 ; married William T. McMurran, June 14, 
 1894. 
 
 One child : 
 
 133. John Parke Custis McMurran, born February 
 25, 1896. 
 
 125. Alberta Virgina McClung, fourth daughter 
 of John William and Mary Allen McClung, born 
 April 29, 1869. 
 
 126. Julia Lee McClung, fifth daughter of John 
 William and Mary Allen McClung, born November 
 23, 1872. 
 
Genealogical Tables. 169 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 in. Elizabeth McClung, second child of John 
 Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, born in 
 Mason county, Kentucky, November 15, 1829; 
 married Major George Thomas Browning, at 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2, 1852; died at 
 St. Paul, April 14, 1874. George Thomas Brown- 
 ing was born at West Union, Ohio, December 5, 
 1820; died at St. Paul, July 19, 1882. 
 
 Children : 
 
 134. Eliza McClung Browning. 
 
 135. Granville Williams Browning. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 134. Eliza McClung Browning, only daughter 
 of George Thomas Browning and Elizabeth Mc- 
 Clung Browning, born January 9, 1854 ; married 
 Nicholas D. Coleman, of New Orleans, L,a., Octo- 
 ber 6, 1875 ; died October 29, 1886. 
 
 Children : 
 
 136. Lloyd Kuffin Coleman (a son), born November 
 26, 1876. 
 
 137. Browning Coleman (a daughter), born October 
 3, iaS3. • 
 
 135. Granville Williams Browning, only son of 
 George Thomas Browning and Elizabeth McClung 
 Browning, born at Indianapolis, Ind., March 14, 
 1856 ; lawyer in Chicago ; unmarried. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 112. Mary Eliza McClung, third child of John, 
 Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, born 
 March, 1830 ; died young. 
 
170 The Johnstons of Salisbdbt. 
 
 113. Anna Maria McClung, fourth child of 
 John Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, 
 born October, 1831 ; died young. 
 
 114. Thomas McClung, fifth child of John 
 Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, born 
 July, 1832 ; died young. 
 
 115. Thomas McClung, sixth child of John 
 Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, born 
 September, 1834 ; died young. 
 
 116. Susan Tarleton McClung, seventh child of 
 John Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, 
 born November 25, 1838 ; died at St. Paul, Minne- 
 sota, May 14, 1892. 
 
 117. Anna Maria McClung, eighth child of John 
 Alexander and Eliza Johnston McClung, born Sep- 
 tember 8, 1844. 
 
THE FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 ARCHIBALD JOHNSTON THE SECOND. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 D. Archibald the Second, the fourth child of 
 Capt. Archibald Johnston the First and Sarah 
 Johnston, was born at Salisbury, Conn., 1767; 
 died at Canfield, O., November 13, 1806; married 
 Rebecca Eoveland, who was born 1770, and died 
 1806, at Canfield, O. 
 
 Children: 
 
 138. Newton Johnston. 
 
 139. Charles Johnston. 
 
 140. Samuel Berry Johnston. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 138. Newton Johnston, eldest child of Archi- 
 bald and Rebecca Johnston, was born, 1791 ; died 
 November 20, 1806. 
 
 139. Charles Johnston, second child of Archi- 
 bald and Rebecca Johnston, was born February 
 14, 1793, at Salisbury, Conn.; married Eliza Ann 
 Bostick, March 12, 1820 ; died at Poughkeepsie, N. 
 Y. , September 1, 1845. 
 
 Only child : 
 
 141. Eliza Ann Johnston. 
 
172 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 141. Eliza Ann Johnston, only child of Charles 
 and Eliza Ann Johnston, was born January 27, 
 182 1 ; married George R. Gaylord, September 24, 
 1838. 
 
 Only child: 
 
 142. Charles Johnston Gaylord. 
 
 GENERATION V. 
 
 142. Charles Johnston Gaylord, only child of 
 George R. and Eliza Ann Gaylord, was born Jan- 
 uary 9, 1840 ; married Mary E- Van Kleeck, 
 November 1, 1861 ; died May 24, 1876. 
 
 Children : 
 
 143. Charles K. Gaylord, born October 7, 1862; died 
 April 20, 1864. 
 
 144. Jeannie Antoinette Gaylord, born May 26, 1867 ; 
 died August 9, 186S. 
 
 145. Bessie Gaylord, born December 8, 1875. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 140. Samuel Berry Johnston, third child of Archi- 
 bald and Rebecca Johnston, was born at Salisbury, 
 Connecticut, February 20, 1798; married Rebecca 
 Ketcham, May 18, 1841 ; died at Poughkeepsie, 
 New York, December 13, 1870. 
 
 Only child : 
 
 146. Mary Johnston. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 146. Mary Johnston, only child of Samuel 
 Berry Johnston and Rebecca Johnston, was born 
 
Genealogical Tables. 173 
 
 July 31, 1842; married Edward Elsworth, Novem- 
 ber 26, 1867. 
 
 Children : 
 
 147. Grace Varick Elsworth, born December 28, 1868. 
 
 148. Mary Johnston Elsworth, born October 15, 1870. 
 
 149. Ethel Hinton Elsworth. born June 15, 1872. 
 
 150. Edward Wead Elsworth, bom January 14, 1876. 
 
 Note. — The professions or callings of thirty-one male 
 descendants of Captain Archibald Johnston are known to 
 the writer, and sum up as follows : Farmers, 6 ; Lawyers, 
 7; Physicians, 4; Professional Soldier, 1; Business, 12; 
 Editor, 1; Teacher or Professor, 1. 
 
 But it may be noted of these that at least three prac- 
 ticed law for some time before entering other professions, 
 and six are known to the writer as having pursued farming 
 or planting in addition to their other avocations. During 
 the War between the States, all the adult male members of 
 this family residing in the Southern States served in the 
 Confederate Army. They were six in number. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 COLONIAL FAMILIES 
 
 OF 
 
 HANCOCK, STROTHER 
 
 AND 
 
 PRESTON. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 It is not the purpose of the present writer to give 
 in this supplement any full or sufficient history or 
 family record of the three families briefly sketched 
 herein. The data to which he has access, and 
 which he uses sparingly, merely enabled him to 
 supply a contribution which may be employed as 
 an aide memoir by more exhaustive writers. These 
 histories are developed only in so far as they touch 
 upon the main subject of this volume, the John- 
 stons of Salisbury. 
 
 The Strothers are a numerous and influential 
 connection, with many distinguished men in it, 
 including some careful genealogists, intent on 
 verifying their family tree, to whom I am content 
 to defer in all disputed points. The Prestons are a 
 multitude, with ample material to make up an 
 octavo volume and plenty of hands to do the work 
 of chronicling their deeds and destinies whenever 
 they shall call for it. Only the name of Hancock 
 has expired in the lapse of time, if even this be 
 so. But it is a good old colonial family, which 
 should not drop entirely from the memory of men 
 and leave no trace behind. And so the writer has 
 put down what he knows, so that others may add 
 to it, if they have the requisite information. 
 
 This supplement like the body of the volume, 
 might well bear for its motto, the Gaelic proverb: 
 
 " Curri me clach er do cuirn, 
 I will add a stone to your cairn." 
 
THE HANCOCK FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 FOTHERINGAY, VIRGINIA. 
 
 The Hancocks were among the founders of the 
 colon}' of Virginia, and attained large wealth 
 before the Revolution, though they were not prom- 
 inent, so far as appears, in politics, or otherwise 
 than as landed gentry. The first mention of them 
 in this country is of the emigrant and progenitor, 
 "William Hancock," who came over in 1620. 
 In the appendix to Stith's History of Virginia, 
 1753, the Second Charter of James I, May 23 
 1609, is to be found ; and in it appears the name of 
 William Hancock, without any other title or des- 
 ignation. 
 
 In "The General Historie of Virginia," etc., 
 by "Captain John Smith, London, 1624," page 
 133, appears among the names of "Adventurers," 
 " alphabetically set downe," the name of "William 
 Hancock." 
 
 The name is given the same on page 49, in 
 Vol. II of Capt. John Smith's General Historie 
 (same as above), Richmond, 1819. 
 
 In "The Genesis of the United States," con- 
 taining the valuable documentary collections of 
 Alexander Brown, at page 217, is given among the 
 corporators of the Second Charter of James I, 
 
The Hancock Family . 17» 
 
 1609, the name of William Hancock. And at 
 page 909 is the entry : 
 
 "Hancock, Wm., Sub 
 
 " Paid ^62 105." 
 
 Brown adds that a pound then was worth about 
 
 twenty-five dollars of present money. 
 
 In the Virginia Historical Collections, Volume 
 
 8, page 278, New Series, appears the following 
 
 entry : 
 
 " William Hancocke, killed at Berkeley, 1622." 
 
 A list of the slain is there said to be given, 
 
 " Smith, p. 70." " Smith II, p. 65." 
 
 William Hancock seems to have been a man of 
 some substance. The first entry in the record 
 in the Family Bible is as follows : "In the 
 year 1620, Wm. Hancock, in search of forest 
 for his building of ships embarked for ye plan- 
 tations, being one of the company owners thereof, 
 leaving his familie in England. On the 22d of 
 March, 1622, he, with others, was massacreed by 
 ye Salvages at Thorpe' s House , Berkeley Hundreds , 
 fifty miles from Charles City. In 1630, Augustin, 
 son and heir of William, came to claim the estate, 
 and died, leaving children." 
 
 Thorpe's House at which William Hancock was 
 killed by the Indians in the general massacre of 
 March 22, 1622, was the residence, as Captain 
 John Smith says (page 145), of "that worthy 
 religious gentleman, Mr. George Thorp, Deputie of 
 the College lands, sometime one of His Majestie's 
 Pensioners, and in command one of the principall 
 in Virginia." 
 
180 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Further light is thrown upon William Hancock's 
 emigration in the MSS. gift of Mr. Alexander 
 Maitland to the Lenox Library of "John Smyth's 
 Virginia Papers and Autographs, 1 6 1 3-1 776. From 
 the Berkeley and Cholmondeley Archives." 
 These MSS. are not the work of the great Capt. 
 John Smith, but of John Smyth, of Nibley (born 
 1567, died 1641), and were part of the Cholmon- 
 deley Collection, Condover Hall, Shropshire. 
 
 "The MSS. tells us that in 16 18 Smyth entered 
 into a partnership with Sir William Throckmor- 
 ton, Sir George Yeardley, Richard Berkeley and 
 George Thorpe, for the purpose of founding in 
 Virginia a colony to be known as the ' ' Berkeley 
 Hundred." In September of the following year 
 these men fitted out a bark, the Margaret of Bristol, 
 with immigrants and supplies for the prospective 
 settlement. An account of this voyage, indorsed 
 " The voyage written || by Fferdinando || Yate to 
 verginia || 1619," is given in one of the manuscripts 
 of the collection. 
 
 In the description of the voyage it appears that 
 the Margaret set sail on September 16, 1619, and 
 cast anchor in Chesapeake Bay, after a tempestu- 
 ous voyage, on the 30th day of November. 
 William Hancock very probably came over at this 
 time, though 1620 is given as the date in the Bible. 
 He was evidently associated in some way with 
 Berkeley and Thorpe. 
 
 From that time down to the Revolution we have 
 no authentic annals of the family, except the brief 
 record of the Family Bible. Summed up it brings 
 
The Hancock Family. 181 
 
 us to Col. George Hancock, of Fotheriugay, thus : 
 Augustin's son, William, born 1631, left son 
 George (1st), born 1658. He left one sou, Robert, 
 born 1679 ; died 1732. Robert had seven children, 
 five of whom died without issue. The fifth child, 
 George (2d), born 1724 ; married Mary Jones and 
 had three sons and a daughter. He died during 
 the Revolutionary War. One of his sous, Augus- 
 tin, born 1756, died in the army, unmarried. His 
 eldest son, a cripple, also died unmarried. His 
 son, George (3d), known as Col. George Hancock 
 of Fotheringay, was born in 1754 ; married 
 Margaret Strother, at Fincastle, Virginia, Sep- 
 tember 18 , 178 1, and died at Fotheringay 
 July 18, 1820. Margaret Strother was the daugh- 
 ter of George Strother and' Mary Kennerly, who 
 was born September 10, 1746, and died at Fother- 
 ingay, June 18, 1830. Margaret Strother was born 
 November 16, 1763, and died at L,ouisville, Ky. , 
 October 23, 1834. Margaret Strother and her 
 brother were brought up from an early age, until 
 almost grown, by an uncle, John Strother, in 
 which the traditions of both families concur. 
 Mary Kennerly 's brother Samuel married Mary 
 Hancock, born November 4, 1759, only sister of 
 Col. George Hancock (3d). They removed late 
 in life to St. Iyouis, where their descendants still 
 reside. 
 
 Colonel Hancock (3d) was a man of note in his 
 day, and the countryside was full of anecdotes of 
 him within the memory of the present writer. He 
 had a splendid presence, being six feet three inches 
 
182 The Johnstons of Salisbdby. 
 
 in height, and possessed much of the personal 
 beauty that distinguished his daughters as among 
 the most beautiful women in Virginia. His son, 
 Colonel George Hancock (4th), of Iyouisville, Ken- 
 tucky, was a classmate of President Woolsey at 
 Yale, who told the present writer that he remem- 
 bered him as the handsomest young man he had 
 ever seen. He preserved his fine appearance to an 
 extreme old age. 
 
 At the opening of the Revolutionary War, 
 though a very young man, George Hancock 
 (3d) entered the service as a colonel in the Vir- 
 ginia line, his rank being probably due to his 
 father's large wealth and influence. This gentle- 
 man, George Hancock (2d), owned large pos- 
 sessions in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, and 
 being in years and ill with the gout, started to 
 Virginia with his daughter and a body of faithful 
 slaves in order to evade the British troops, who had 
 taken possession of the sea coast. He died on the 
 road at King's Mountain, South Carolina. His 
 son, Col. George Hancock (3d), is stated by 
 tradition to have been on Pulaski's staff and to have 
 received the body of the illustrious Pole, when he 
 fell at Savannah. Captured there himself, he was 
 paroled to go to Virginia, where he married in 
 1 78 1. After the war, having lost the greatest part 
 of his estate, he began the practice of law, in which 
 he was successful, at Fincastle, Virginia. He was 
 a member of the Fourth Congress, and was 
 strongly attached to the policy of President Wash- 
 ington. Having voted for Jay's Treaty, he was 
 
The Hancock Family. 183 
 
 rejected by his constituents, and did not re-enter 
 political life. In his latter years he resided at 
 Fotheringay, and his remains lie in the white 
 vault which he had excavated high on the moun- 
 tain side and overlooking what is called ' ' The 
 Happy Valley." This family tomb is visible from 
 the railroad on the opposite side of the valley, near 
 Big Spring, Va. 
 
 The following is the record from the Family 
 Bible : 
 
 "In ye year 1620, Wm. Hancock, in search for 
 Forrest for his building of Ships, embarked for ye 
 Plantations, being one of ye Company owners 
 thereof, leaving his familie in England ; on ye 22d 
 of March, 1622, he, with others, was massacreed by 
 ye salvages at Thorpe's House, Berkeley Hundred, 
 fifty miles from Charles City. 
 
 "In 1630, Augustin, son and heir of William, 
 came to Virginia to claim the estate, and died, 
 leaving children, Robert, William, Sarah and 
 Ruth. William, born 1631, died 1672, leaving 
 sons, George, born 1658 ; Jubal, 1660; Jubal killed 
 by Indians at 'Jini to.' George died, leaving one 
 child, Robert, born 1679, died 1732. Robert left 
 children, Robert, born 171 1; he was ancestor of 
 Colonel Wm. Hancock, of Bedford county, Vir- 
 ginia; Fdward, born 1713, died" young ; and Dinah, 
 born 1717, married 'Mr. Patterson,' of Virginia, 
 died without children ; William, born 1720, never 
 married ; and George, born 1724, who married 
 Mary Jones and had issue. Thomas and Joshua, 
 
184 The Johnstons of Salisburt. 
 
 Thomas, born 1727; Joshua, born 1729, both lost 
 at sea. 
 
 "George Hancock and Mary Jones' children 
 were Edward, born 1752; never married; died 
 1820; George, born June 13, 1754, died July 18, 
 1820 ; he married Peggy or Margaret Strother 
 (daughter of George Strother and Mary Kennedy) , 
 whose second marriage was to Major Lockhart." 
 
THE STROTHER FAMILY. 
 
 The marriage of Col. George Hancock (3d) 
 with Margaret Strother united two old colonial 
 families. These touch upon the family of John- 
 ston of Salisbury, through the marriage of Gen. 
 Albert Sidney Johnston with two granddaughters 
 of Colonel Hancock and wife, Henrietta Preston 
 and Eliza Griffin, so that all his descendants count 
 Colonel Hancock and wife among their ancestors. 
 
 Margaret Strother herself was the daughter of 
 George Strother and Mary Kennerly, his wife. 
 The Strothers were a rich and powerful connec- 
 tion, and, according to tradition, renowned for 
 beauty, brilliancy and a certain imperiousness of 
 temper, verging on lawlessness. But in those days 
 each old Virginia Don, on his ample estate, was 
 almost a law unto himself. A good deal has been 
 written, and many facts have been accumulated, 
 in regard to this family. 
 
 General D. H. Strother (known under the nom 
 de plume of Porte Crayon) devoted considerable 
 time and research to tracing the Strother Family 
 in England and America, but it would be aside 
 from the purpose of this sketch to do more than 
 briefly mention some of the salient points of this 
 narrative. Mr. P. N. Strother, of Pearisburg, Va. , 
 an ardent, but accurate, genealogist, has also made 
 a study of all accessible data, and is preparing an 
 
186 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 extended memoir of the family. Based upon this 
 and other sources, I have drawn up a table, accom- 
 panying this sketch; but I am aware that there are 
 discrepancies in it with other accounts entitled to 
 respect. They will not, however, invalidate its 
 important features. 
 
 According to the interesting paper of' General 
 D. H. Strother, the Strother family was of great 
 wealth and power from the thirteenth to the fif- 
 teenth century in the county of Northumberland, 
 where " it vied with the Percys, Howards, Dacres, 
 Scroops and Bedfords in high commands. The 
 ladies of the family also intermarried with the 
 Feuwicks, Musgraves, Selbys, and Widdringtons, 
 names familiar in all the chivalric chronicles and 
 ballads of the Scotch and English border." But, 
 at present, it must be added, the family is repre- 
 sented "among the small landholders of Northum- 
 berland and also in Scotland." In a word, the 
 respectable remains of a great fighting family still 
 exist around and about their ancient home, but 
 with loss of prestige. 
 
 In America better fortunes awaited the Strothers. 
 Somewhere, as early as 1673, William Strother 
 emigrated from Northumberland county, England, 
 to Virginia. Almost certainly he was one of the 
 family already mentioned; but, as we do not know 
 who his father was, it is useless to speculate on 
 mythical pedigrees, and we may as well leave the 
 English family out of the question. His descend- 
 ants have occupied a very conspicuous place in the 
 history of this country, numbering among their 
 
The Strother Family. 187 
 
 members two Presidents of the United States, John 
 Tyler and Zachary Taylor; a distinguished general, 
 Edmund Pendleton Gaines; Bishop Madison; Gov- 
 ernor Madison, of Kentucky, and many others of 
 note in their day. They were intermarried with 
 the Iyewises, Dabneys, Kennerlys, Thorntons, 
 Masons of Gunston, Madisons and Washington s; 
 and the acres must have been broad that could 
 stand a subdivision into eight or ten inheritances 
 in each generation. 
 
 William Strother settled on the banks of the 
 Rappahannock river, in Richmond county (now 
 King George county), where he died in 1702. His 
 children were William, died 1727; James, died 
 1716, unmarried; Jeremiah, died in Culpeper 
 county, 1741 ; Robert, died in King George county, 
 1735 ; Benjamin, died in King George county, 
 1752, and Joseph, died also in King George county, 
 1766. One of his grandsons, Francis, of Rush 
 River, or St. Mark's parish, as he is sometimes 
 designated, the ancestor of Margaret Strother, had 
 ten children, and many others were blessed with a 
 numerous progeny. 
 
 The Strothers seem to have been closely con- 
 nected with the Kennerly,s by intermarriage and 
 in business. Jeremiah Strother married Miss Ken- 
 nedy, a great-aunt of Margaret Strother, and 
 removed to South Carolina. And James and Eliza- 
 beth Kennedy owned an estate, known as Del- 
 mere Forest, under a patent for 583 1-3 acres, 
 dated June 6, 1735, located in St. Charles parish, 
 Culpeper county, in which Francis, the father of 
 
188 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 George Strother, also had his home. George 
 Strother, in his last will, devised to his wife, Mary 
 Kennedy, for life and then to his daughter, Mar- 
 garet, land at Kennerly Mountain bought of Will- 
 iam Baker, who bought it from IyOrd Fairfax, and 
 to his sons, John and George, land bought of 
 James Kennerly. His executors were James Ken- 
 nerly, John Strother and Francis Strother. 
 
 Margaret Strother's mother was Mary Kennerly, 
 born in 1746. George Strother and Mary Ken- 
 nerly were neighbors in youth, in days when the 
 Old Dominion was in full tide of prosperity ; and, 
 in later years, when she was an old woman, she 
 still looked back with regret on the stately cere- 
 monial and vanities of colonial society. George 
 Strother died young (1767) ; and his wife, left a 
 widow at twenty-one years of age, made a second 
 marriage, December 5, 1770, with Major Patrick 
 L,ockhart, a Scotchman by birth, and a very ardent 
 patriot. He was a worthy and sturdy character, 
 but was impoverished by his share in the Revolu- 
 tionary War. He and his wife had a daughter, 
 who died in infancy, and a son, James L,ockhart, 
 who died in Nashville, Tenn., November 6, 1832, 
 aged sixty-one years. After her husband's death 
 in 1809, Mrs. L,ockhart lived with her daughter, 
 Mrs. Hancock, at Fotheringay, until her own 
 death, June 18, 1830, at the advanced age of 
 eighty-four years. She was laid in the family 
 vault of- George Hancock, where rest also his body, 
 and that of his daughter, Mrs. Julia Clark, wife of 
 Gen. William Clark, of Missouri. 
 
The Strother Family. 189 
 
 From the union of Margaret Strother, daughter 
 of George Strother and Mary Kennedy, with Col. 
 George Hancock of Fotheringay, sprang three 
 families, of which a brief account is given here- 
 with — the Griffins, the Prestons, and the Clarks. 
 They had also a son, George Hancock (4th), of 
 whom a short sketch is also appended. 
 
 The descendants of George Hancock and Mar- 
 garet Strother inherited many of the traits for which 
 their colonial and revolutionary ancestry were dis- 
 tinguished, which it would not be difficult for one 
 conversant with the family history to point out. 
 longevity, great physical strength and a rare 
 beauty of face and form have marked a goodly 
 number of their offspring. The children were 
 famous in their day for a very uncommon beauty. 
 Julia, the third daughter, was thought by her 
 admirers " the most beautiful woman in Virginia;" 
 but her husband, General Clark, was celebrated as 
 well for the ruggedness of his person as for his 
 energy of character and nobility of nature. The 
 Griffins have all been endowed with muscular 
 strength, vigor of constitution and a sweet persua- 
 siveness almost phenomenal; and, as a rule, while 
 the Prestons have been more or less hardy, they 
 have been nearly always remarkable for size and 
 presence; and Colonel George Hancock (4th) had 
 all these traits. 
 
 Colonel George Hancock (4th), youngest child 
 of Colonel George Hancock and Margaret Strother 
 and their only surviving son, is still remembered 
 by the older citizens of IyOuisville, Kentucky, 
 
190 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 where he died in 1875 at seventy-seven years of 
 age. An excellent sketch of his life is given by 
 Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston in his History of 
 Louisville. An autobiography, or even a well 
 planned biography, recounting the stirring inci- 
 dents of his life, would read like a romance. He 
 was a youth of singular beauty and possibly some 
 waywardness. His father, who had many friends 
 in the North, sent him, at an early age, to school at 
 New Haven during the war with Great Britain. 
 In one youthful escapade he fell into the hands of 
 the enemy, but was set free without injury. At 
 Yale, where he was educated, he was under the 
 guardianship of General David Humphreys, and 
 was in the same class with President Woolsey, who 
 told the writer that he was the handsomest young 
 man he had ever known. It is possible that he 
 paid more attention to social enjoyment than 
 to books, but he was a fair scholar and always a 
 great reader. 
 
 When he returned home he entered at once into 
 politics and was elected to the Legislature. But he 
 served only one term. On a visit to Kentucky 
 to his sister, Mrs. Preston, he married Miss 
 Eliza Croghan, the niece of his brother-in-law, 
 Gen. William Clark, and the sister of Col. George 
 Croghan, the hero of Fort Sandusky. This was 
 in 1819, before he was twenty-two years of age. 
 He removed to Kentucky a few years later, and 
 engaged in agriculture, or rather in the liberal life 
 of a country gentleman of that day. The rest of 
 his life was spent in Kentucky, where he farmed 
 
The Strother Family. 191 
 
 at various periods in Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby 
 and Carroll counties. He was an admirable judge 
 of land and of values, and had a singular faculty 
 of taking the roughest looking property, and by his 
 taste, skill and husbandry, transforming it into a 
 most inviting home. He would have made a won- 
 derful landscape gardener. Indeed he was one. 
 
 His hospitality was very profuse ; and, with 
 no children of his own, he gathered around him 
 his kindred and friends with a welcome so generous 
 that his home was a real centre of family love and 
 influence. In all this he was seconded and greatly 
 aided by his second wife, Mary Davidson, of whose 
 family a sketch is given in the memoir herein of 
 Col. J. Stoddard Johnston. To Colonel Hancock's 
 robust physique, personal attractions, magnetic 
 manner, ready conversational eloquence, wit and 
 wonderful vivacity of intellect, he added a shrewd 
 and accurate knowledge of business affairs, and 
 great daring and energy. These traits led him into 
 enterprises of great magnitude, and with striking 
 vicissitudes of fortune. Withal he was an old- 
 fashioned gentleman of most benevolent nature, 
 kind to everybody, rich and poor, and beloved by 
 all. It could truly be said of him, ruling his pa- 
 triarchal home with thoughtfulness and dignity, 
 that there never was a better master ; and his ser- 
 vants, inherited for generations, were his best 
 friends. He was the last of the name of the 
 descendants of George Hancock (2d) born in 1724. 
 
 The writer remembers among his earliest recol- 
 lections the wonderful and striking manly beauty 
 
192 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 of Capt. George Hancock Griffin; and later on, 
 how, while still a college student, he was, as a 
 guest in his hospitable home in New York, com- 
 pletely won and captivated by the persuasive voice, 
 gracious manner and manly thought of his kins- 
 man, Lieutenant William Preston Griffin. Dr. 
 John Strother Griffin, still a hale citizen of Los 
 Angeles, Cal., now eighty-three years of age, has 
 always been noted for his strength and endurance. 
 Mrs. Eliza Griffin Johnston had the same char- 
 acteristics and much beauty, and her children 
 have to a considerable degree inherited her en- 
 dowments. 
 
 General William Clark, who married the young- 
 est daughter of Colonel Hancock, is now best 
 known as the joint discoverer, with Merriwether 
 I,ewis, of the mouth of the Columbia river, which 
 constituted the most valid claim of the United 
 States to the possession of Oregon and the country 
 to the sources of that mighty stream. He was the 
 younger brother of George Rogers Clark, who is 
 gradually coming to be recognized as the heroic 
 leader, who, with a little band of Kentuckians, by 
 his victories wrested the Northwestern Territory 
 from Great Britain. As Superintendent of Indian 
 Affairs, Gen. William Clark had an influence over 
 the Western tribes never equaled before or since by 
 any white man. He was loved as a friend and 
 father and obeyed as the Great Red-Headed Chief, 
 who could be trusted to the uttermost. Of him it 
 was said as contemporary history, in Niles Regis- 
 ter, Volume 55, page 33: 
 
The Hancock Family. 193 
 
 "General William Clark died at St. Uouis, 
 September 2, 1838, aged sixty-eight years. After 
 his explorations he was made Governor of Mis- 
 souri, and afterward Superintendent of Indian 
 Affairs. His name was known by the most remote 
 tribes, and his word was reverenced by them 
 everywhere. They regarded him as a father, and 
 his signature — which is known by every Indian in 
 the most distant wild of the Far West — wherever 
 shown was respected." 
 
 His sons were all men of high standing in their 
 several spheres. 
 
 But by far the most numerous branch of Colonel 
 Hancock's descendants were the Prestons, who 
 abound unto the fourth and fifth generation. His 
 daughter Caroline became the wife of Major 
 William Preston of the United States Army. 
 Major Preston was born too late to take part in the 
 Revolutionary struggle, in which his father had an 
 honorable and distinguished share, but he served 
 with credit under Gen. Anthony Wayne and in 
 the control of the Indian tribes in the Southwest. 
 
 Major William Preston was born March 26, 1765, 
 married March 24, 1802, and died at Smithfield, 
 Montgomery county, Virginia, in 1821. He was 
 appointed captain in the United States army by 
 President Washington in 1794, and was subse- 
 quently promoted to be a major. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Cincinnati Society. He resigned late in 
 life and removed to Uouisville, Ky., where he had 
 a large estate. Major Preston was the third of 
 five brothers, all noted for their talents, vigor, per- 
 
194 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 sonal worth and magnificent presence. He him 
 self was six feet five inches in height, at one time 
 weighed four hundred pounds and was con- 
 sidered in strength second only to Peter Fran- 
 cisco. Many of his descendants have inherited his 
 lofty stature and other of his traits. He was a 
 man of wit, daring and genial temper, the favorite 
 of an extensive family connection. 
 
 Major Preston was the son of Col. William 
 Preston, of Smithfield, Virginia, and Susannah 
 Smith, daughter of Francis Smith and Elizabeth 
 Waddy, of Henrico county ; and Colonel Preston 
 was the son of John Preston and Elizabeth Patton, 
 his wife. John Preston and his kinsmen claimed 
 to be descended from three brothers who were 
 among the defenders of Londonderry in its famous 
 siege. He emigrated from Londonderry in 1735 to 
 Augusta county, Virginia, when his son William 
 was eight years old, and died young in 1740. 
 William was his only son, but he left four daugh- 
 ters, from whom sprang four very notable fami- 
 lies — the Breckinridges, Browns, Blairs and How- 
 ards, whose members have generally lived in Vir- 
 ginia, Kentucky and Missouri and the South- 
 west. A talent for oratory and for military and 
 political life has marked many of the scions of 
 this stout Scotch-Irish breed, and the descendants 
 of Col. William Preston have evinced the same 
 traits, as, for instance, William Campbell Preston, 
 of South Carolina; Gen. William Preston, of Ken- 
 tucky; Gov. James McDowell, of Virginia; Will- 
 iam Ballard Preston, of Virginia; Gen. Randall 
 E- Gibson, of Louisiana, and many others. 
 
The HJlncock Family. 195 
 
 Colonel William Preston, following in the foot- 
 steps of his uncle, Col. James Patton, who had 
 been the leading man on that frontier at an earlier 
 day, took an active and useful part in the Revolu- 
 tionary struggle. He was County lieutenant of 
 Fincastle and Montgomery counties, embracing 
 the territory of Kentucky, a member of the House 
 of Burgesses, and took part in the battle of King's 
 Mountain. He was one of the founders of Liberty 
 Hall Academy, the original of Washington and 
 I,ee University. He was a man of great wealth, 
 power and influence in his day, and much esteemed 
 by his contemporaries. 
 
 Among all the descendants of Col. William 
 Preston, of Smithfield, there has been none who 
 excelled in natural gifts, personal accomplishments 
 and public services, his grandson and namesake, 
 Gen. William Preston, of Kentucky; and yet, with 
 all he was and did, men continually wondered that 
 he allowed to go to waste talents and abilities equal 
 to the highest achievements. So great and versa- 
 tile were his gifts, so untrammeled his strength of 
 mind and body, so rare his advantages and oppor- 
 tunities, that, though he accomplished much, his 
 friends felt it was but the by-play of a giant in his 
 moods, who yet would not exert his full powers. 
 
 William Preston (3d) was the only son who 
 reached manhood, of Major William Preston and 
 Caroline Hancock. In his boyhood, though head- 
 strong and wayward, his manly and generous qual- 
 ities won him both the leadership and the affection 
 of his comrades. He was a splendid horseman and 
 
196 The Johnstons of" Salisbury. 
 
 famous swimmer ; and, living on the banks of the 
 Ohio, often swam across it, not far above the Falls. 
 At fourteen years of age, he saved from drowning 
 a lad, who later in life became an honored citizen 
 of Iyouisville. 
 
 He was a widow's son, and she a woman strug- 
 gling with debt and narrow means, though she had 
 a large estate. His reckless prodigality as a youth 
 often embarrassed his mother, but her high princi- 
 ple and resolve to sacrifice every interest to honor 
 strengthened and magnified his native integrity 
 and chivalry. He attributed much to his eldest 
 sister, Henrietta, who was especially devoted to 
 him. He went to various schools in Kentucky, 
 learning a great deal in a rather desultory manner, 
 and eventually found his way to New Haven, and 
 later to the Harvard baw School, where he was 
 graduated. It was always rather a marvel to the 
 writer when and how he got a scholarship in the 
 classics, as easy, as gentlemanly and as critically 
 correct as need be for a professorial chair. His 
 natural gifts and a certain fire and concentration in 
 study, which marked all his mentality and action, 
 are the only solution. 
 
 Returning to Kentucky he began the practice of 
 the law in Louisville, but with no great enthusiasm 
 at first. Indeed, he never did undertake the 
 drudgery of an attorney's life ; but, as he said, 
 practised like a Roman patrician, for his kindred 
 and clients. And yet few lawyers in America 
 have ever become so absorbed in their practice as 
 he in the great cases to which he devoted his atten- 
 
The Hancock Family. 197 
 
 tion and which he prepared with a scope of view, a 
 depth of research and a careful consideration of 
 detail almost unequaled. And before a jury he 
 was a formidable opponent ; indeed terrible, as he 
 sometimes proved to unworthy adversaries. 
 
 But this was a later phase of his life. In 1840, 
 at the age of twenty-four, he married Margaret 
 Wickliffe, a kinswoman, the daughter of Robert 
 Wickliffe, of L,exington, Kentucky, known as " the 
 Old Duke," the greatest lawyer of his day in 
 Kentucky. She was, in every sense, his peer;, a 
 lady, whose beauty, goodness and talents won 
 unbounded admiration in her youth and whose 
 influence has never wavered in Kentucky through 
 a life reaching nearly four score years. A large 
 family was born to them, the members of which 
 have kept up the prestige of their parents. 
 
 William Preston always had a strong predilec- 
 tion for military affairs, and during the Mexican 
 War was made lieutenant colonel of the Fourth 
 Kentucky Volunteers. Though this command did 
 not see much service, yet coming as he did of a 
 family identified with the old army, he was thrown 
 into close relations with the most eminent officers 
 and won the particular notice and affection of Gen. 
 Winfield Scott, of whom he became a devoted 
 friend and active partisan. Indeed, later on, he 
 contributed largely to General Scott's nomination 
 for the Presidency in 1852. After the war he had 
 been elected to the convention held in 1849 to 
 amend the State Constitution, and secured great 
 respect by the independence of his opinions and 
 
108 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 actions and the philosophical basis of his convic- 
 tions. In politics he was nominally a Whig, 
 according to the traditions of his family and cer- 
 tain strong conservative instincts; but he embraced 
 a moderate view of the State Rights theory of 
 national politics, which unfitted him for party 
 work as a hack in harness. However, he was 
 elected to the Legislature and to Congress. Per- 
 sonally, no man was ever more popular with his 
 constituency, but ideas are stronger than men; and 
 when L,ouisville joined the fanatical Know-Nothing 
 Crusade in 1855, he led the opposition, though he 
 knew that he was signing his political death war- 
 rant. In this case, as in many others, he evinced 
 a certain stubbornness, or tenacity of opinion and 
 purpose, that prevented him from receiving the 
 highest rewards of party service. Gen. John C. 
 Breckinridge said of him, "If Preston were to 
 come to a precipice a thousand feet deep and honor 
 bade him go on, he would take the leap." 
 
 He soon took high rank in the Democratic party, 
 and would have been its nominee for Governor, 
 but he was persuaded to accept the mission to 
 Spain, to which he was appointed by President 
 Buchanan. When the war broke out in 1862, 
 though he distrusted secession as a remedy and had 
 little faith in its ultimate success, he resigned, re- 
 turned home and went South, where he entered 
 the Confederate service as aide-de-camp to Gen. 
 Albert Sidney Johnston, who had a great affection 
 for him. General Johnston died in his arms. He 
 was made a Brigadier General by President Davis, 
 
The Hancock Family. 199 
 
 and was distinguished in the bloody battles at 
 Murfreesboro, and still more for conduct at Chick - 
 amauga, which won him the commendation even 
 of foreign critics. He was subsequently in com- 
 mand in Southwestern Virginia, but was sent on a 
 mission to Mexico by President Davis. He saw 
 the close of the war only in its dying throes in 
 Texas, whence he went to England. 
 
 After the close of the war General Preston was 
 welcomed back to Kentucky with great enthusiasm 
 not only by the returned Confederates, who looked 
 to him as a great leader, but by the Southern sym- 
 pathizers, who knew him to be a man who had 
 proved his faith by his works. This was his great 
 opportunity. There was nothing that Kentucky 
 could give him that it would not have granted. 
 But the iron had entered his soul, his ambition 
 was paralyzed, his heart was well nigh broken. In 
 becoming a soldier he had never forgotten that he 
 was a citizen, and now all his high ideals were 
 shattered. The cause was lost. 
 
 He always refused to apply for a pardon and 
 would seek no office ; but his patriotism did not 
 waver. He loyally accepted the situation, and his 
 voice was the most potent in the counsels of the 
 Democratic party in Kentucky. He became warmly 
 interested in the election of Mr. Tilden, and was 
 much in the confidence of that statesman. He 
 always took a share in the political direction of the 
 State, but his time and attention were given in his 
 latter days almost exclusively to the study and 
 management of certain great lawsuits already 
 
200 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 mentioned. He died at his home at L,exington, 
 Kentucky, September 21, 1887. 
 
 General Preston was a man of lofty stature, hand- 
 some face, and commanding presence. His great 
 size, his gallant bearing and his Roman features 
 attracted attention everywhere. His voice like a 
 trumpet, his contagious laugh, his magnetic man- 
 lier, his intellectual poise, and a fire and vigor of 
 speech and thought, in which humor, audacity, 
 sympathy and lofty ideals were mingled, made him 
 a favorite popular orator. He had a loathing for 
 the mere demagoguery of practical politics ; but 
 as a political leader and counselor was adroit, dar- 
 ing and wise. In private life, his genial manner, 
 joyous nature, wit, profuse liberality, and stately 
 hospitality made him a general favorite, and his 
 home a social centre. His conversational talent 
 was extraordinary, the fit exponent of a mind of 
 unbounded versatility. It was at his table, or in 
 his library, that he was at his best, and the more 
 intellectual his audience, the more was it fasci- 
 nated. His mind was philosophical, but so versa- 
 tile that it drifted with the mood and the play of 
 conversation, from the profoundest topics to anec- 
 dote, illustration or epigram, but all illumined by 
 scholarship and dignified by strong thought. 
 Withal, he was an accurate man of business, and 
 managed his affairs well in buying and selling real 
 estate, of which he was a large holder, though his 
 lavish expenditure prevented any great accumula- 
 tion of fortune. He was not careless, but profuse. 
 Those who knew him well loved him much 
 
The Hancock Family. 201 
 
 loved him most ; and this must be the apology for 
 this brief memoir of a man who deserves from 
 every point a fuller memorial ; for he was the repre- 
 sentative of a class whom we shall see no more. 
 Henry Watterson, in a brief editorial on his life 
 and character, written when he died, summed 
 him up as " The Last of the Cavaliers." 
 
 If this notice of the Prestons seems a little 
 extended it is in complaisance to a very numerous 
 tribe of collaterals, whose fuller history may be 
 found in " Memoranda of the Preston Family," by 
 Col. John Mason Brown; in the Historical Docu- 
 ments of Washington and Lee University; in the 
 Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Society, and in the 
 careful and trustworthy " History of Augusta 
 County, Va. ," by James Addison Waddell. 
 
ANCESTORS OF MARGARET STROTHER. 
 
 GENEALOGICAL TABLES 
 
 OF 
 
 STROTHER FAMILY. 
 
 A, B, C and D Indicate the Lineal Ancestors 
 of Margaret Strother Hancock. 
 
 GENERATION I. 
 
 A. William Strother (the First), emigrant 
 before 1673, from Northumberland county, Eng- 
 land; married Dorothy; died 1702, in King George 
 county, Virginia. 
 
 Children: 
 B— 
 
 a. William (second), died 1727. 
 
 b. James, died 1716. 
 
 c. Jeremiah, died 1741. 
 
 d. Kobert, died 1735. 
 
 e. Benjamin, died 1752. 
 
 f. Joseph, died 1766. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 B. William (Second), son of William, married 
 Margaret, daughter of Francis Thornton and his 
 
The Strother Family. 203 
 
 wife, Alice, the daughter of Anthony Savage. 
 William died in 1727. 
 
 Children : 
 a. William (Third). 
 (C) b. Francis, of Kush Eiver. 
 
 c. Anthony. 
 
 d. James, died 1766. 
 
 e. Benjamin. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 William (Third), eldest son of William (Sec- 
 ond) and Margaret Thornton Strother ; married 
 Margaret Watts ; died 1733. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Elizabeth, married John Frogg. 
 
 b. Agatha, married John Madison (parents of Bishop 
 Madison and Governor Madison of Kentucky) . 
 
 c. Margaret, married Gabriel Jones, " the Lawyer " 
 
 d. Anna, married Francis Tyler (grandparent of Presi- 
 dent John Tyler) . 
 
 e. Jane, married Thomas Lewis. 
 
 Anthony, third son of William (Second) and 
 Margaret Thornton Strother, married Betheland 
 Stron, and was the ancestor of the branch from 
 which General D. H. Strother is descended. 
 
 Benjamin, fifth and youngest son of William 
 (Second) and Margaret Thornton Strother, married 
 the Widow Fitzhugh, sister of George Mason, of 
 Gunston. Their daughter, Alice, married Robert 
 Washington. 
 
 Francis, of Rush River, second son of William 
 (Second) and Margaret Thornton Strother ; mar- 
 ried Susannah Dabney, daughter of John Dabney ; 
 died 1752. 
 
204 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. William (Fourth). 
 
 b. John, married Mary Wade 1795. 
 
 c. Anthony, married Frances Eastham, died 1777. 
 
 d. Francis. 
 (D) e. George. 
 
 f. Robert. 
 
 g. Elizabeth, married Thomas Gaines, 
 h. Mary, married Mr. Covington. 
 
 i. Betheland, married Mr. Willis. 
 j. Susannah, married James Gaines (parents of Gen- 
 eral Edmund Pendleton Gaines). 
 k. Margaret, married Mr. Deatherage. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 William Strother (Fourth), eldest son of 
 Francis Strother, of Rush River, and Susannah 
 Dabney Strother; married Mrs. Susannah Pannill. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Susannah, married Capt. Moses Hawkins (parents 
 of Moses and William Hawkins, of Woodford county, 
 Ky.). 
 
 b. William Dabney Strother. 
 
 c. Sarah, married Richard Taylor (father of President 
 Zachary Taylor) . 
 
 George Strother, fifth son of Francis Strother, 
 of Rush River, and Susannah Dabney Strother; 
 married Mary Kennerly; died 1767. 
 
 Children: 
 
 a. John Strother. 
 
 b. George Strother. 
 
 c. Margaret Strother, who married Col. George Han- 
 cock (3d) of Fotheringay, was born September 16, 
 1763, and died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. 
 Caroline Preston, Louisville, Ky., October 3, 1834. 
 
DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 COLONED GEORGE HANCOCK ( 3 d), 
 
 OP FoTHERINGAY, 
 AND 
 
 MARGARET STROTHER HANCOCK, 
 His Wipe. 
 
 GENERATION I. 
 
 George Hancock (3d) and Margaret Strother 
 Hancock. 
 
 Children: 
 
 A. Mary Hancock. 
 
 B. Caroline Hancock. 
 
 C. John Strother Hancock. 
 
 D. Julia Hancock. 
 
 E. George Hancock (4th) . 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 A — THE GRIFFIN FAMILY. 
 
 Mary Hancock, eldest daughter of George Han- 
 cock (3d) and Margaret Strother Hancock, born 
 February 14, 1783 ; married December 23, 1806, to 
 John Caswell Griffin, of Virginia; died April 26, 
 1826, at Fincastle, Va. 
 
206 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Children : 
 
 1. George Hancock Griffin. 
 
 2. William Preston Griffin. 
 
 3. Julia Elizabeth Griffin, born June 21, 1817; died 
 January 11, 1820. 
 
 4. Caroline Margaret Griffin, born November 14, 1818 ; 
 died October 28, 1819. 
 
 5. Jobn Strother Griffin. 
 
 6. Eliza Croghan Griffin. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 i. George Hancock Griffin, eldest son of John 
 Caswell Griffin and Mary Hancock Griffin, born 
 November 21, 1808; never married, and died at 
 Tampa Bay in Florida, October 7, 1836, during 
 the Seminole War, being then a Captain in the 
 United States Regular Army and aide-de-camp to 
 Gen. Zachary Taylor. 
 
 2. William Preston Griffin, second son of John 
 Caswell Griffin and Mary Hancock Griffin, born 
 February 25, 18 10; died December 4, 1851. 
 William Preston Griffin was an officer of distinction 
 in the U. S. Navy. He married, first, Mary Law- 
 rence, only child of Commodore Lawrence, of his- 
 toric memory (" Don't give up the ship"). Mary 
 Lawrence Griffin died at Florence, Italy, leaving 
 one child, a daughter, Mary Lawrence Griffin, 
 who married William Redmond, of New York. 
 She left an only child, Preston Redmond. Lieuten- 
 ant Griffin's second wife was Christine Kean, of 
 New York, who survives. They had no children. 
 
 5. John Strother Griffin, fifth child of John 
 Caswell Griffin and Mary Hancock Griffin, born 
 
The Hancock Family. 207 
 
 June 25, 1816 ; Surgeon in United States Army 
 with General Kearney in the Mexican War ; set- 
 tled at Eos Angeles, Cal., as a practising physi- 
 cian ; married Louisa Hayes ; has no children. 
 
 6. Eliza Croghan Griffin, youngest child of John 
 Caswell Griffin and Mary Hancock Griffin, born 
 December 26, 18.21 ; married General Albert Sidney 
 Johnston. Fuller mention is made of her and her 
 descendants in connection with his life in this 
 volume. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 THE PRESTON FAMILY. 
 
 B. Caroline Hancock, second daughter of George 
 Hancock (3d) and Margaret Strother Hancock, 
 born March 25, 1785 ; married Major William 
 Preston, U. S. A., March 24, 1802; and died 
 December 20, 1847. 
 
 Children: 
 
 1. Henrietta Johnston Preston. 
 
 2. Maria Preston. 
 
 3. Caroline Preston. 
 
 4. Josephine Preston. 
 
 5. Julia Preston. 
 
 6. Hancock Preston. 
 
 7. William Preston. 
 
 8. Susan Marshall Preston. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 1. Henrietta Johnston Preston (so christened), 
 eldest daughter. Full mention in the sketch of 
 General Albert Sidney Johnston. 
 
 2. Maria Preston, second daughter of William 
 
 Preston and Caroline Hancock Preston, born , 
 
 1804 ; married John Pope, lawyer of Eouisville, 
 
208 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Kentucky, June — , 1824, who died leaving her a 
 widow at an early age. Her only child died in 
 infancy. She brought up her nieces, Susan and 
 Maria, daughters of her sister, Josephine, and the 
 children of Susan (Mrs. Barr), and died April 
 1 5, 1895, at the advanced age of ninety years. 
 3. Caroline Preston, third daughter of William 
 
 Preston and Caroline Hancock Preston, born , 
 
 at "Robinson's Tract," in Wythe, now Pulaski, 
 county, Virginia ; married Colonel Abram Wool- 
 ley, U. S. A., at "Solitude," near Middletown, 
 Jefferson county, Kentucky ; died at New Orleans, 
 March 18, 1840. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. John Pope Woolley. 
 
 b. Mary Margaret Hancock Woolley 
 
 c. William Preston Woolley. 
 
 d. Louis Marshall Woolley. 
 
 e. Llewellyn Powell Woolley. 
 
 Only William and Llewellyn survived the mother, 
 and Llewellyn died in infancy. 
 
 (c) William Preston Woolley, born May 2, 
 1830; died at Buffalo, N. Y. , September 7, T850, 
 and was buried at Louisville, Ky., September, 13, 
 1850. He evinced uncommon literary and musi- 
 cal talents at an early age, and became sole editor 
 and manager of a vigorous daily newspaper in 
 Louisville before he reached nineteen years. He 
 had started on a journey to Europe, but was taken 
 sick and died immediately after leaving home. 
 Had he lived there was scarcely a doubt among 
 his acquaintances that he would have won much 
 distinction. 
 
The Hancock Family. 209 
 
 4. Josephine Preston, fourth daughter of Will- 
 iam Preston and Caroline Hancock Preston, born 
 at Robinson's Tract, Va., December 25, 1809; mar- 
 ried Jason Rogers, October 16, 1831; died Novem- 
 ber 6, 1842, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Jason Rogers was born in Orange county, N. Y., 
 February 2, 1803; died April 6, 1848, at Louis- 
 ville, Ky. He was a captain in the Sixth Infantry, 
 and served with credit in the Black Hawk War, 
 and as lieutenant colonel of the Louisville Legion 
 in the Mexican War. He was an amiable, hon- 
 orable and gallant gentleman. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Caroline Preston Rogers. 
 
 b. Preston Rogers. 
 
 c. Susan Preston Rogers. 
 
 d. Sidney Johnston Rogers. 
 
 e. Maria Pope Rogers. 
 
 f. James Rogers. 
 
 g. Joseph Jason Rogers. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 
 a. Caroline Preston Rogers, eldest child of Jason 
 Rogers and Josephine Preston Rogers, born at Jef- 
 ferson Barracks, Mo., July 29, 1833; died May 4, 
 1837, at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 b. Preston Rogers, eldest son of Jason Rogers 
 and Josephine Preston Rogers, born April 6, 1835; 
 married Sophie Leight Ranney, daughter of Willis 
 Ranney (born September 22, 1805, died December 
 3> l8 93), and Sophie Leight (born July 8, 181 2, 
 died June 20, 1888). Mrs. Rogers was born Sep- 
 tember 11, 1838; married December 3, 1857. 
 
210 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 Children : 
 Josephine Preston (Effie) Rogers, born September 28, 
 1858 ; married Walter Rawlings Hill, June 4, 1864. 
 One daughter : 
 
 Sophie Preston Hill, born June 15, 1895. 
 Ella Ranney Rogers, born August 16, 1860; married 
 William Paca Lee, November 18, 1890. One daugh- 
 ter: 
 
 Sophie Rogers Lee, born July 30, 1895. 
 Adelaide Jacob Rogers, born November 23, 1862; 
 unmarried. 
 
 c. Susan Preston Rogers, third child of Jason 
 and Josephine Preston Rogers, born September 24, 
 1836; married the Hon. John Watson Barr, United 
 States District Judge; died 
 
 Children: 
 
 Maria Preston Pope, died in infancy. 
 
 Anna, born February 3, 1861 ; unmarried. 
 
 John Watson Barr, Jr., born November 25, 1863; mar- 
 ried Margaret McFerran, November 12, 1891. One 
 child, John McFerran Barr, born October 19, 1882. 
 
 Caroline Preston Barr, born December 24, 1864; mar- 
 ried Morton W. Joyes, lawyer, Louisville. Three 
 children : 
 
 Watson Barr Joyes. 
 Preston Pope Joyes. 
 Florence Joyes. 
 
 Susan Barr, born September 3. 1866; married Edward 
 J. McDermott, lawyer, Louisville, in 1895. One 
 daughter, born June, 1897. 
 
 Jason Rogers Barr, born January 5, 1S6S (civil en- 
 gineer) ; married Elizabeth Wood in 1895. One 
 child, John Watson Barr,, born in 1897. 
 
 Josephine Barr, born April 8, 1869 ; married John B. 
 McFerran, October 12, 1894. One child, John B. 
 McFerran, born September 1, 1895. 
 
 Elise Barr, born January 29, 1871; unmarried. 
 
The Hancock Family. 211 
 
 d. Sidney Johnston Rogers, fourth child of 
 Jason and Josephine Rogers, born October 9, 1837, 
 at Louisville, Ky.; married Belle Brent; died April 
 17, 1885. 
 
 Children: 
 Jason Rogers, died in infancy. 
 Susan Preston Rogers, died in infancy. 
 Preston Pope Rogers, born ; married Susie 
 
 Wood , 1897. 
 
 e. Maria Pope Rogers, fifth child of Jason and 
 Josephine Preston Rogers, born June 17, 1839, at 
 Louisville; married Dr. Thomas Palmer Satter- 
 white, practising physician, Louisville, Ky. Dr. 
 Satterwhite was the only ■ son of Dr. Thomas 
 Palmer Satterwhite and Mary Cabell Breckinridge, 
 and was born July 21, 1835. 
 
 Children : 
 Josephine Preston Satterwhite, born December 7, 
 
 185S; died April 18, 1859. 
 Lilly Satterwhite, born March 13, 1861 ; unmarried. 
 Thomas P. Satterwhite, born June 7, 1862; married 
 
 Minnie Shreve November 10, 1880. One child : 
 Sallie Shreve Satterwhite. 
 Jason Rogers Satterwhite, born March 13, 1864 ; died 
 
 March, 1865. 
 Preston Pope Satterwhite, born September 28, 1867. 
 Caroline Hancock Satterwhite, born July 29, 1870; 
 
 died September 7, 1877. 
 Cabell Breckinridge Satterwhite, born June 10, 1874; 
 
 died June 3, 1880. 
 Susan Barr Satterwhite, born April 6, 1879. 
 
 f. James Rogers, sixth child of Jason and Jose- 
 phine Preston Rogers, born June 30, 1841 ; died 
 in infancy. 
 
212 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 g. Joseph Jason Rogers, youngest child of Jason 
 and Josephine Preston Rogers, born October 30, 
 1842 ; died May 4, 1844. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 5. Julia Preston, fifth child of Major William 
 and Caroline Hancock Preston, died in infancy. 
 
 6. Hancock Preston, sixth child of William and 
 
 Caroline Hancock Preston, born ; killed by a 
 
 fall from a vicious horse at fourteen years of age. 
 
 7. William Preston, seventh child and second 
 son of William and Caroline Hancock Preston, 
 born October 16, 1816; married Margaret Preston 
 
 Wickliffe, December , 1840 ; died September 
 
 21, 1887. A sketch is given of General Preston in 
 this volume. 
 
 GENERATION IV. 
 Children: 
 
 a. Mary Owen Preston, eldest daughter, born October 
 8, 1841; married Colonel John Mason Brown, her 
 kinsman, and an eminent lawyer of Louisville, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Their children : 
 
 Preston Brown, Second Lieutenant United States 
 
 Army, born January 2, 1872. 
 Mason Brown, First Assistant City Attorney, 
 
 Louisville, Kentucky, born February 3, 1874; 
 
 married Miss Ferguson , 1897. 
 
 Mary Owen Brown, born August 28, 1875. 
 Margaret Wickliffe Brown, born September 23, 
 
 1877. 
 
 b. Caroline Hancock Preston, second daughter, born 
 
 ; married Major Eobert A. Thornton, lawyer, of 
 
 Lexington, Kentucky. 
 
The Hancock Family. 213 
 
 Their children : 
 
 Preston Thornton, born March 19, 1871; died 
 
 May 16, 1897. 
 Margaret Thornton born December 11, 1873. 
 Caroline Thornton, born Augast 20, 1876. 
 
 c. Margaret Preston, third daughter, born ; mar- 
 ried George M. Davie, lawyer, of Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 A daughter died in infancy. 
 
 Preston Davie, born February 3, 1880. 
 
 d. Robert Wickliffe Preston, only son, born December 2, 
 1850; married his kinswoman, Sallie McDowell, of St. 
 Louis. 
 
 Children : 
 
 Margaret Preston, born September 1, 1885. 
 William Preston, born August 28, 1887. 
 
 e. Susan Preston, fourth daughter, born ; married 
 
 General William F. Draper, of Hopedale, Massa- 
 chusetts, M. C, and Minister to Italy. 
 
 Margaret Preston Draper, born March, 1891. 
 
 f . Jessie Fremont Preston, youngest daughter, born — ; 
 married George A. Draper, of Hopedale, Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 Wickliffe Preston Draper, born August, 1891. 
 
 Jessie Preston Draper, born ; died. 
 
 Helen Draper. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 8. Susan Marshall Preston, eighth and youngest 
 child of William and Caroline Hancock Preston, 
 born September 21, 1819 ; married first, Howard 
 F. Christy, of St. L,ouis, and second, Hiatt P. 
 Hepburn, of San Francisco. No children. 
 
214 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 C. John Strother Hancock, third child of George 
 Hancock (3d) and Margaret Strother Hancock, 
 born March 25, 1787; died August 2, 1795. 
 
 D. Julia Hancock. William Clark, ninth child 
 and youngest son of John and Ann Rogers Clark, 
 was born in Caroline county, Virginia, August 1, 
 1770'; married, first, Julia Hancock, at Fincastle, 
 Va., January 5, 1808, who died June 27, 1820; 
 second, Mrs. Harriet (Kennerly) Radford, at St. 
 Louis, Mo., November 28, 1821, who died, St. 
 Louis, December 25, 1831. Gen. William Clark 
 died at St. L,ouis, September 1, 1838. 
 
 The children of the first marriage were : 
 
 1. Meriwether Lewis Clark, born St. Louis, January 
 10, 1809; died at Frankfort, Ky., October 28, 1881. 
 
 2. William Preston Clark, born St. Louis, October 5, 
 1811; died May 16, 1834; never married. 
 
 3. Mary Margaret Clark, born St. Louis, January li 
 1814; died at Middletown, Kentucky, October 15, 
 1821. 
 
 4. George Kogers Hancock Clark, born St. Louis, May 
 6, 1816 ; died near St. Louis, September 29, 1858. 
 
 5. John Julius Clark, born St. Louis July 7, 1818; died 
 in St. Louis, September 5, 1831. 
 
 By the second marriage : 
 
 6. Jefferson Kearney Clark, born St. Louis, February 
 29, 1814; married Mary Susan Glasgow, St. Louis, 
 May 8, 1849; no issue. 
 
 GENERATION III. 
 
 1. Meriwether Eewis Clark, married, first, near 
 Louisville, January 9, 1834, Abigail Prather 
 
The Hancock Family. 215 
 
 Churchill, who died in St. L,ouis, January 14, 1852; 
 married, second, in L/Ouisville, December 30, 
 1865, Julia Servoss Davidson, surviving ; no chil- 
 dren by last marriage. 
 
 The children of the first marriage were : 
 
 a. William Hancock Clark, born St. Louis, December 
 24, 1839; married, first, at New Brunswick, New 
 Jersey, February 14, 1867, Eva Beardsley ; second, at 
 New York, Camilla Gaylord. No children by either 
 marriage. 
 
 b. Samuel Churchill Clark, born St. Louis, September 
 12, 1842; killed at battle of Elkhorn, Arkansas, 
 March 8, 1862, while commanding a battery of Con- 
 federate artillery ; unmarried. 
 
 c. Mary Eliza Clark, born St. Louis, May 31, 1844; died 
 March 25, 1847. 
 
 d. Meriwether Lewis Clark, born near Louisville, Ky., 
 June 27, 1846 ; married Mary Anderson, daughter of 
 Orville Anderson, of Louisville. 
 
 Children : 
 
 Churchill Clark, born August 15, 1874. 
 Caroline Clark, born August 17, 1876. 
 Mary Clark, born September 13, 1877, 
 
 e. John O'Fallon Clark, born July 7, 1848 ; died from 
 wound received accidentally at school at Frank- 
 fort, Ky., February, 1863. 
 
 f. George Kogers Clark, born St. Louis, April 19, 1850; 
 died Greenville, Miss., of yellow fever, October 12, 
 1878. 
 
 g. Charles Jefferson Clark, born St. Louis, January 
 10, 1852; died London, Eng., February 10, 1896; 
 married, Louisville, July 8, 1873, Lena Jacob. 
 
 Their children were : 
 
 Susan Mary Clark, born St. Louis, February 23, 
 1877; married Clarence Houghton, of New 
 York City, November 19, 1895. 
 
216 The Johnstons of Salisbury. 
 
 One child : 
 Edgar Clare Houghton, born, 1896. 
 
 Evelyn K. Clark, born St. Louis, December 26, 1882. 
 Marguerite Clark, born Louisville, February 10, 1893. 
 
 GENERATION II. 
 
 4. George Rogers Hancock Clark, born May 16, 
 1816, married, St. Louis, March 30, 1841, Eleanor 
 Ann Glasgow ; died near St. Eouis, September 29, 
 1858. 
 
 Their children were : 
 
 a. Julia Clark, married Robert Voorhis. One daugh- 
 ter, Eleanor Glasgow Voorhis. 
 
 b. Sarah Clark, died young. 
 
 c. John O'Fallon Clark, St. Louis; married Beatrice 
 Choteau. 
 
 d. Eleanor Ann Clark, married Willis Lauderdale; 
 
 resides in Philadelphia. 
 
 Children : 
 
 Sarah Lauderdale. 
 Walter Lauderdale. 
 
 E. George Hancock (4th), youngest child of 
 George Hancock (3d) and Margaret Strother Han- 
 cock, born April 8, 1798 ; married first Eliza 
 Croghan, of Jefferson county, Kentucky, at Eocust 
 Grove, September 28, 1819 ; second Mary David- 
 son, of New Orleans, August 27, 1875. He had 
 no children. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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 ERRORS AND OMISSIONS. 
 
 Page i8, insert after fifth paragraph : 
 
 ' ' On the tombstone in the old cemetery at L,ake- 
 
 ville is this inscription : 
 
 " In memory of Sarah Johnston, wife of Captain 
 
 Archabell Johnston, who died April i, 1810, aged 
 
 74 years. ' ' 
 
 Page 36, line 19, after " 1839," insert " aged 50 
 
 years." 
 
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 Page 55, line 18, insert " early " before " days." 
 Page 55, line 23, read " had " for " ad." 
 Page 56, insert before quoted letter : 
 Edward Harris was one of the Committee of 
 
 Safety and Correspondence appointed by the town 
 
 of Newburyport, September 23, 1774 {vide History 
 
 of Newburyport, by Mrs. E. Vale Smith, page 81, 
 
 1854). 
 Page 63, line 10, insert " his " before " public." 
 Page 72, line 27, read "feelings" for "feel- 
 ing." 
 
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 "William." 
 
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 " said of her," "just before his second marriage, 
 in delivering her letters and poems." 
 
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 iel." 
 
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 ley." 
 
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 "James." 
 
 Page 150, omit from " by " in 3d line to " Mar- 
 shall " (inclusive) in 5th. 
 
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 60 years," and add, " he died April 1, 1834, xi - 74 
 years." (Tombstone.) 
 
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 ston " read " Robertson." 
 
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 after " James Byers." 
 
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 December 27, 1897." 
 
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 read ' ' Louanna Hooper. ' ' 
 
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 " Marylee." 
 
Page 165, child 106, for " Graham " read " Gra- 
 ham Brent." 
 
 Page 165, child 108, for " Sidney " read " Sid- 
 ney Johnston." 
 
 Page 166, children, insert after gth line "chil- 
 dren : Francis Byers Watkins, born June 5, 
 1895 ; died February 15, 1896. Sarah Alberta 
 Watkins, born February 23, 1897." 
 
 Page 166, line 8, for " 1857 " read " 1867." 
 
 Page 166, line 9, for " 2 " read "27." 
 
 Page 182, last line, read "supported" for 
 "voted for." 
 
 Page 187, line 1, read " a" for " two," and omit 
 " John Tyler and " 
 
 Page 194, line 15, insert "one of" before 
 "three." 
 
 Page 194, line 17, for " 1735 " read " 1740." 
 Iyine 19, for "1740" read "1747." 
 
 Page 196, line 8, omit " and took part in the 
 battle of King's Mountain." 
 
 Page 203, lines 18 and 19, instead of "grand- 
 parent of President John Tyler," read "May 17, 
 1 744-" 
 
 Page 207, 5th line from bottom, instead of 
 " full " insert " Born February 23, 1803, at Santi- 
 lane, near Fincastle, Virginia; married Albert 
 Sidney Johnston, January 20, 1829; died at Hay- 
 field, Jefferson county, Ky. , August — , 1835, 
 Fuller." 
 
 Page 210, line 3, read " 1884 " for " 1864." 
 
At foot of page 210, for "unmarried" read 
 "married Win. Wallace McDowell, December 29, 
 
 1807." 
 Page 211, line 9, read " Duncan" for " Wood." 
 
 Page 211, line 20, for "Lilly" read "Lily 
 Rogers." 
 
 Page 2ii, line 22, " November 11 " fo r 
 "November 10." 
 
 Page 213, 3d line from bottom, "July" for 
 " September." 
 
 At foot of page 213, add "died October 5, 
 1897-" 
 
 Page 214, 5th line from bottom, for "1814" 
 read " 1824." 
 
 Page 216, next to last line, after "New Or- 
 leans," insert " December 14, 1834, died ." 
 
 Page 216, 2d line, after " born " insert " New 
 York, November 16, 1896." 
 
 Page 216, 4th line, after "born" change to 
 " St. Louis, March 13, 1893 
 
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