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Johns Family
| These typed notes were found in "The
Black Book", which is a small notebook of eclectic
items, including summaries of information on the various
families, letters, etc. The earliest births must have
taken place in Buckingham Co., Va, with later births in
Tennessee and Mississippi. The latest of Lydia's children
may have been born in St. Charles, MO. |
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Dennis was born
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1st January |
1796
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Mason was born
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1795
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Lydia was born
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1819
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Lucretia was born
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1822
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| William was born |
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1824
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| Dolly was born |
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1829
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| George was born |
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1836
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Catherine, Lydia's 1st child, was born
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Archer, Lydia's 2nd child, was born
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16th Feb. 1841
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- Lydia's
3rd daughter was born
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Aug. 19, 1845
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| Jackson was born |
1795
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Allie was born
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25th January 1798
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Miema (?) was born
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3d January 1823
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John was born
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1st November 1826
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| Bocker was born |
7th April 1829
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| Sydney was born |
21st May 1832
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| Henry was born |
1836
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| Cely was born |
1834
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John Jay Johns was graduated from Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, August 1840.
Jane Amanda Durfee was graduated from Monticello
Female Seminary, Godfrey, Illinois, March 17, 1847, while Miss
Philena Fobes was Principal. The following November she
married John Jay Johns, in St. Charles, Missouri. she had
previously gone to school at Lindenwood, then went for four years
to Monticello.
There is a Johns Memorial Episcopal Church
in Farmville, Virginia. This is in Prince Edward County.
Hampden-Sidney is near. The Johns family lived in this section,
in Buckingham, Appomattox and Prince Edward counties.
"Life and Letters of Stonewall Jackson"
by his wife, mentions "the venerable Bishop Johns" conducting
"a delightful service" for Jackson's officers and soldiers
on an occasion at camp early in the Civil War.
Source: Typewritten notes in the private collection
of the Chambless family. Author is probably Anne Durfee
Gauss. Transcribed to softcopy by Susan D. Chambless, June
3, 2000.
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