According to Ancestry, his father was Andrew Jackson Johnson and his mother's name was unknown.
Sources
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3RQ-H85 : 22 February 2021), Benjamin Franklin Johnson, 1917-1918.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMBN-PQT : accessed 1 November 2021), Ben F Johnson, Beat 4, Clarke, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 12, sheet 13A, line 16, family 258, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1141; FHL microfilm 2,340,876.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBSQ-LY9 : 4 January 2021), Benjamin F Johnson, Beat 5, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-45, sheet 24, line 41, family 338, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2040.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49385494/ben-f-johnson : accessed 01 November 2021), memorial page for Ben F. Johnson (1887–1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49385494, citing Long Creek Cemetery, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Robert Miller (contributor 46933197)
Acknowledgements
This person was created through the import of currentLarkin_McClaskiefamily.ged on 18 August 2010.
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