Notes for Samuel Johnson




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Notes for Samuel Johnson

Written in a letter by Annie Belle Johnson Stone to Donna Joy Johnson on December 15, 1996:
"Samuel Johnson Cemetery - 1 mile from Ingold Cemetery. This cemetery is near the original Samuel Johnson house - restored beautifully - owned by someone other than family."

The following paragraphs are quoted directly from "The Family of Cicero Howard Johnson and Eugenia Theodora Robinson - the Sixteenth Generation Descendants of Sir John de Johnstone" compiled by Merla Johnson Cline and Betty Gene Caison Best, (1989):
"14. Samuel Johnston
Samuel Johnson lived on Turnbull Creek in Bladen County a few years until his oldest child was two years old. He then purchased a large track of timbered land on Six Run Creek near the present village of Ingold, NC where he developed an extensive farm. He was a large slave owner and was a man of importance in his community. He reared his family in a two-story log house. In 1840 he built the present house known as the Amos Neil Johnston place where he lived until his death. Samuel Johnson built Johnson's Chapel in 1856. Samuel Johnson and his wife Ann were buried in the family cemetery near the old home."

The home of Cicero H. Johnson is shown in the book:
"An Inventory of Historic Architecture Sampson County North Carolina"
photos and text by Tom Butchko, copyright by City of Clinton.
Beside the photo of the home is the following text:
"Sam Johnson House
Ingold vicinity
According to Mildred Johnson Miller, her great-grandfather, Sam Johnson (1787-1857), built this Federal house in 1840. Family tradition has it that the builders were itinerant Pennsylvania German carpenters. Built in a locally popular Federal I-House form, the hall-and-parlor plan frame house has an engaged front porch with chamfered posts and flush sheathing and engaged rear shed rooms. The two-and-a-half story house has vigorous Federal mantels and raised-panel wainscot and doors; the walls are sheathed with wide boards. The present owner, Mr. and Mrs. Bernis Oliver, bought the house from the Johnson family in 1945 and have undertaken a complete restoration, including minor additions in 1977. Outbuildings include several barns and the family cemetery."

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