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- PARENTS: John BOGGS and Jane IRWIN.
MARRIAGE: Married (2) about 1810 Champaign County, Ohio to Jacob Johnson.
SOURCE: LDS Ancestral File.
FAMILY: Jacob Johnson, the oldest son of William Johnson, married Martha
McFarland, a widow, in Virginia, in 1790. Hermaiden name was Boggs. She bore
two children by her first husband-John and Moses McFarland-both of whom came
with her to this State. Jacob was the father of eight children. Of these, Mary,
William, Lavina, Hiram, Nelson B., Jane and Alfred grew to mature years. He
bought four hundred and seventy-eight acres of land in Mingo Valley, of James
Denney, in the year 1801 or 1805, at $2.50 to $1 per acre, and moved on to it
in April, 1805, and raised a crop of corn the same year ; the Indians had
raised a crop on the same land the previous year. Hiram, Nelson B. and Alfred
succeeded their father in the ownership of these lands; it is now owned
entirely by Alfred. [For further record of the Johnson family, see the
biographical department of this volume.] Mary became the wife of Robert Blair.
Lydia married Joseph O'Neil in 1826. After the death of Blair, Mary married
Col. John Thomas. He died in 1851, and his widow finds a comfortable home with
her sons, Ivan B. and F. M. Thomas, in Salem Township.
SOURCE: HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. BY F. M. M'ADAMS.
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1772 - 1851 (78 years)
