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Born 1819
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 WILLIAM, Pike township; postoffice, Fallsburgh; farmer and stock-raiser; born in England in 1819; came to the United States in 1852, and settled in this county in 1870; son of Daniel and Mary (Topps) Johnson, and grandson of William and Mary Johnson, and of Thomas and Topps. He was married in 1858 to
Miss Levina Lane, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Lane. They are the parents of six children, viz: Mary and Sarah, both deceased; Margaret, John, Terrissa, George E., Harriett, and Elizabeth. The father of the subject of this sketch died in
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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