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Born 1846
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
JOHNSON JOHN, Pike township; postoffloe. West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1846; son of John and Mary Johnson, and grandson of John Johnson, and of Joseph and Mary Hawker. He was married in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth Frampton, daughter of Garrettson and Eliza A. Frampton. I'hey are the parents of two children, viz: Clarence G. and Stephen D. Mr. Johnson enlisted in 1864, in Company F, Nihety-seventh 0. V. I., Capt. Lemmert, Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Johnson participated in the following battles, tewit: Rocky Face Ridge, May 9, 1864; Resaca, Georgia, May 14 and 15, 1864; Adairsville, May 17, 1864; Burnt Hickory, May 27, 1864; Muddy Creek, June 18, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Peach Tree Creek,' July 20, 1864; Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 and 23, 1864; Jonesborough, September 1,1864; Lovejoy Station, September 2, 1864; Spring Hill, November 29, 1864; Franklin, November 80, 1864; Nashville, December 16 and 16, 1864; Missionary Ridge, Stone River, and Chicamauga. He was wounded at Nashville December 16, 1864; and was mustered out at Powder Horn, Texas, October 21, 1865.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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