Johnson Cave (1760 - 1850) Boone County Pioneer, first county clerk, politician and landowner.

b. 15th of November in the year 1760 d. 19 Jan 1850, and was buried at Sand Run.

Cave Johnson and Betsy Craig were married 1 Feb 1784.
Betsy Johnson wife of Cave Johnson Died 11 Mar 1833
Cave Johnson and Sarah T. Keene were married 2 Oct 1834
Sarah T. Johnson, consort of C. Johnson Died 30 Sept 1835 aged 40 years 1 month and 3 days
Cave Johnson and Margaret C. Keene were married 1 Dec 1836

Cave Johnson was among the most prominent early Boone County citizens. He was born 15 Nov 1760 in Orange Co., Va., and died in Boone County 19 Jan 1850. He spent service in the War of the American Revolution, then came to Kentucky in April of 1779 spending time at Bryant's Station near Lexington. He married in 1784 and moved to Woodford County. In 1786 he served with Gen. George Rogers Clark under Col. William Steele as Captain Cave Johnson. He was clerk to the Quarter Sessions of the Woodford County County Court from 1789-1796. In 1792 he was one of the trustees appointed to lay off the town of Versailles. In 1796 he moved to the North Bend of the Ohio River in what was then Campbell County, and soon after united with the Baptist Church at Bullitsburg by letter. At some point he was appointed Colonel of Militia and he served in this post until 1819. About this time he became Justice of the Peace until 1833, when he became Sheriff of Boone County at the venerable age of 73. He was elected to the Kentucky Legislature in 1817. In 1819 he became a charter member of the Sand Run Baptist Church. Cave Johnson and Betsy Craig were married 1 Feb 1784. Betsy died 11 Mar 1833. Cave Johnson and his second wife, Sarah T. Keene, were married 2 Oct 1834. Sarah died 30 Sept 1835, at just over forty years of age. Cave Johnson and Margaret C. Keene were married 1 Dec 1836. She died in 1855, surviving him by five years. He died 19 Jan 1850, and was buried at Sand Run. He was ninety.

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References:

Boone County Recorder 1 Feb 1877, p. 1 and 8 Feb 1877, p. 1
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