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Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia
Department of Mathematics
January 20, 1927
Dear Miss Gauss:
I thought you might like to
have the following information, taken a family Bible record, now in the
possession of Mrs. Willie Johns parish of Roanoke, Va. She states
that Col. John Johns lived at New Store, Buckingham County. Edmund
Winston Johns became a noted divine of his day.
From another source it is learned
that Col. John Johns and Elizabeth Winston were married in 1766; that
he died about 1821 and she in 1784 or 1788. Glover Johns, named
below, married in 1803, Martha (born in Buckingham, 1780, died 1828) daughter
of Joel Jones, and died in 1834 in Mississippi. Glover and Martha
Johns had John Jay Johns, born June 27, 1818 in Buckingham Co., Va.
married Jane Amanda Durfee, and died April 3, 1899 at St. Charles, Mo.
Glover and Martha Johns also had a daughter, Mary, who married William
Cowan.
It has been stated that Elizabeth,
wife of John Johns, was a daughter of Judge Edmund Winston, but this is
a mistake. His daughter Elizabeth (1783-1856) married Dr. Bennett
W. Moseley.
Col. John Johns b. Oct. 14,
1746; wife Elizabeth Winston, b. Oct. 30, 1749. They married Feb.
28, 1766
children:
William M. Johns, b. Jan. 10, 1766
Edmund Winston Johns, May 24, 1767
Judith Johns, May 2, 1768
Glover Johns Dec. 25, 1769
Anthony Benning Johns, March 11, 1771
Martha Johns, Oct. 27, 1772
Mary Johns, Jan. 4, 1775
Samuel Johns, Sept. 28, 1777
Elizabeth Johns, march 24, 1779
Sarah Johns, March 12, 1780
Ann Johns, March 6, 1781
John Johns, June 3, 1784
You may already have most of
these dates. I happened to notice the article in my reading &
thought you might be interested.
Do you have a copy of the will
of C.F. Gauss? Or where can I get one?
Cordially yours,
G. Waldo Dunnington
12 Edmondson Ave.
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Source: Handwritten original in the private
collection of the Chambless family. Transcribed to softcopy
by Susan D. Chambless, 1999.
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