Elizabeth (Harrison) Johnson (1742 - 1830)

Wife of Arthur Johnson Jr. — married 1770 (to 1823) in Virginia

Descendants

Died 1830 at about age 88 in Grand View, Edgar Co., Illinois

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Notes

Despite DAR documentation and family history that states Elizabeth to be the daughter of signer Benjamin Harrison, that is likely in error, as Elizabeth (Harrison-906), daughter of signer Benjamin Harrison V, instead married William Rickman and later John Edmondson.

This Elizabeth is not likely a descendant, and is rather from the Shenandoah Valley Harrisons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_family_of_Virginia).

Biography

Arthur Johnson, [Junior]. Paid £13.7sh.6d. for 131 days. He was born about 1750, the youngest son of Arthur and Margaret (Phares) Johnson, Senior, who lived near Dayton in Rockingham County. [54] Johnson married Elizabeth Harrison, and they settled on the North Fork of the South Branch near his older brother Andrew Johnson and the Hinkles, Greggs, and Evermans. He appears on the Personal Property Tax Lists of Rockingham County from 1782 to 1787, but is gone in 1788. The Johnsons immediately appear thereafter in Harrison County, Virginia, where they made their home on the West Fork of the Monongahela east of Clarksburg. He appears on the tax lists there until 1807, by which time they had gone with the Cutlers (who had married two of their children) to what is now Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio. They went on to Spencer and Monroe Counties in Indiana, and finally to Edgar County, Illinois. Arthur Johnson died there in March 1823. His wife Elizabeth (Harrison) Johnson survived until August or September of 1830 when she died at the reputed age of 88 years. They are buried on a farm belonging to their son east of Grand View in Edgar County.[55] [54] - J. Houston Harrison, Settlers by the Long Grey Trail (Dayton, Virginia, 1935) 208-9. Margaret, the posthumous daughter of Arthur Johnson, Senior, was the wife of Andrew Skidmore, who is noticed later. [55] - Much of this account of the Johnson family has been taken from the the typed notebooks of the late Joseph M. Kellogg of Lawrence, Kansas, now available on microfilm.

--Taken from a paper titled "JOHN SKIDMORE AND HIS COMPANIES AT THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT IN 1774, AND AT FORT HINCKEL IN JUNE 1775". ^[1] [From the Home Page select "Family History" to "Skidmore and Scudamore Families in North America" at the bottom of the left column find "16 Occasional Papers"... with a "can be seen here" (click it) scroll down to find the reference: OP34 (Occasional Paper #34) " John and his companies"].

17th-20th centuries

Sources

1. ↑ Occasional Paper #34; Compiled by Linda Moffatt from the original work of Warren Skidmore http://www.skidmorefamilyhistory.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142301734/elizabeth-johnson