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JOHNSON. -- John Johnson, of Tennessee, settled on "the point" below the town of St. Charles, in 1805. His father was killed by the Indians when he was a small boy, and he grew up with a natural antipathy to the race. He became a noted Indian fighter, and never let an opportunity pass to slay a red-man. On one occasion, while the people were collected in the forts, during the war of 1812, he saw an Indian hiding behind a log not far from the fort, disguised as a buffalo, with the hide, to which the horns were attached, thrown over his body. The disguise was so transparent that Johnson had no difficulty in penetrating it, and he at once decided to give the Indian a dose of lead for the benefit of his health. So he cautiously left the fort, and making a wide circuit, came in behind the savage, who was intently watching for an opportunity to pick off some one of the inmates who might come within range of his gun. But a ball from Johnson's rifle put an end to his adventures here, and sent him speeding on his way to the happy hunting grounds of the spirit land. For more than five years after his removal to Missouri Johnson dressed in the Indian garb, and never slept in a house, preferring to repose in the open air with nothing but the heavens for a shelter. He was thirty-seven years of age when he came to Missouri, and when the Indian war commenced he joined the company of rangers commanded by Capt. Massey, and was stationed for some time at Cap-au-Gris on the Mississippi river. Before he left Tennessee he was married to Nancy Hughlin, of Nashville, and they had six children -- Daniel, Elizabeth, Levi, Dorcas, Evans, and Susan. Daniel married Susan Smelzer. Elizabeth married Asa Griffith. Levi married Esther Bert. Dorcas married Thomas Fallice. Evans was married four times; first to Susan Miller; second to Susan Sullivan; third, to Angeline Lefavre, and fourth, to Sarah M. McCoy. Susan married William Roberts. [p. 160]

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The History of Pioneer Families of Missouri, Bryan, William and Robert Rose, 1876. A reproduction with an added index was published in 1935. Be careful to use this information as a hint to further research; it is essentially equivalent to interviews, and was not checked for accuracy. Please add any comments you have on this document to the discussion page (see the tab at top). Also see comments by Dorris Keeven on the discussion page for the main index.