Essays on the Johns Family
From Gauss and his Children
Introduction
This is a fragmentary account of the family of Orrick Johns, written by the husband, name unknown, of his daughter. The latest reference I have found in it is to a reprint of The Time of Our Lives, republished in 1973. These are scanned images, and so take a while to load.
[Note: I will summarize t some high points in this. article. This might give the reader enough info to know which graphic they would be interested in reading These graphics are good enough that the reader can read from the original scanned documents and get more than a transcribed copy might render. --Bobcham.]
Body
Col. John Johns & Elizabeth Winston
Colonel John Johns lived at New Store, Buckingham Co. VA. He was born Oct. 14, 1746 in VA On Feb. 28, 1766, he married Elizabeth Winston. He died about 1821.
Elizabeth Winston was born Oct. 30, 1749 in VA and died in 1788.(*).
Their children were:
- Wm. M. Johns, b. Jan. 10, 1766.
- Edmund Winston Johns, b. May 24, 1767.
- Judith Johns, May 2, 1768.
- Glover Johns, Dec. 25, 1768.
- .....
The list goes on, but I'll stop with our ancestor, Glover.
"It has been stated that Elizabeth, wife of John Johns, was a daughter of Judge Edmund Winston Johns, but this is a mistake. His daughter Elizabeth (1783-1856) married Dr. Bennett W. Moseley.
SOURCES: [Exact interpretation left to the reader]
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol 35., pub. Jan., 1927, pp 78-9, Johns Family Bible Record.
(*)Portrait and Biographical Record, St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties, Missouri, pub 1895, p. 134.
Glover Johns P2
Owned a tobacco plantation.
Father of John Jay Johns.
Family migrated to Nashville, TN. Then to Missippippi (near Jackson).
Glover died in MS.
Glover Johns, cont'd. P3
Sources cited.
Genealogical descent of the letter 'M'.
- was this studied this as a part of genealogical theory?
John Jay Johns & Jane Amanda Durfee P4
Migrated with his father Glover.
Orphaned at 16. Moved in with his sister.
Started school at Miami U in Ohio in 1836. Graduated in 1840. Married C Woodruff.
Moved to just S of St Charles, MO in 1844.
Wife died he remarried to Amanda Durfree.
Lots of details on this page. [click on it aand see]
John Jay Johns & Jane Amanda Durfee, continued. P5
empty head
John Jay Johns & Jane Amanda Durfee, continued
empty head
George Sibley Johns P7
This was the the 'big man o' th' clan'
Orrick Johns wrote the book Time of Our Lives Wrote quite a bit about his father George Sibley.
attended, studied journalism, Princeton U, was acquainted with Woodrow Wilson.
interesting exchange between Johns and Wilson
George Sibley Johns, continued P8
worked as a reporter in Philadelphia for a short time
started a newspaper in St Charles, MO
Geoege becomes owner, reporter and business manager for St Charles Journal
George worked for the Post Dispatch without pay -- within two weeks he was beginning to be paid
George would be editor of the Post-Dispatch for 30 years
George married Minniehaha (aunt mina?)
wrote the book 'Southern Union Spy'
genealogy published in 1933
George Sibley Johns, continued P9
genealogy starts on page 8 and continues through several pages.
George Sibley Johns, continued
genealogy starts on bottom page 8 and continues through several pages.
only 'one mistake' in genealogy.
George Sibley Johns, cont'd P10
empty head(ing)
George Sibley Johns, cont'd P11
traveled to Japan and Philippines
friends with J Pulitzer
retired 1929 one of the most widely known of American newspaper men.
suffered stroke in 1938
Minnie died in 1940 (how was aunt Mina related?)
George Sibley Johns, cont'd P12
George now became helpless.
George died in 1941.
sources cited.
genealogical descent of the letter C.
Orrick Johns P13
'New York World Telegram' (what is this referring to?)
worked in advertising in St Louis
published poems
rolling in money
worked in advertising in NYC
three years in Italy
traveled to Geneva
took the cure (Alcoholism) in Paris
sick in Sicily
Orrick Johns, cont'd P14
Carmel California ( bohemian community)
Maried Caroline (third wife)
edited a local news paper in Carmel
Orricks first child
carpentry work and an interest in science
Orrick was a full time card carrying communist in San Francisco
Orrick Johns, cont'd P15
Orrick's wife, Caroline, in mental hospital
Left for St Louis for ' personal reasons '
Orrick worked for New Masses</n> neews paper -- Stalin murdered thousands/millions -- Orrick resigned from <i>New Masses
Appointed supervisor of WPA writers project in New York
often in news in 1935 - 1936
Orrick Johns, cont'd P16
...
Orrick dies -- suicide.
The Door (a poem) P17
Poem
Photo copied from a publication?
To Caroline P18
To Caroline
My first love was a fair girl
with ways forever new;
And hair a sunlight yellow,
and eyes a morning blue.
I wondered if her face
was not a girl's again,
And if she found the flowers
thick about the glen;
And if among her thoughts
so dark we couldn't see,
It only was her reason
came to make her free.
Beauty blue and beauty white,
beauty of the day and night,
Make her step be light and proud
going in a gown of cloud.
Deborah Berton Johns P19
old
xeroxed copy of a
photo
of daughter or niece of Orrick?
Too bad there is no way to make these small thumbnails line up with the description.
I guess that would make for some horrendous download times for some.
William Bradford P20
intro to history of W Bradford/mayflower
William Bradford, cont'd P21
Whoops, last few letters of each line are chopped off in this graphic
some history of early America
(where is the mayflower compact info?)
Thomas Russel Durfree descended from Hanna Bradford
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Notes
this page moved here by --Bob Chambless 13:35, 26 December 2007 (CST) 
Source
Wherabouts of original unknown. I received this scan of a photocopy from David Willis.
