ALBERT JOHN PICKNEY ("PINCKNEY") JOHNSON

 

 

SURNAMES: PICKNEY, PINCKNEY, ARNOLD, JOHNSON, JACKSON, CLEMENTS, WOODLAND, PRATT, ROGERS

 

     Albert John Pickney (sic "Pinckney") Johnson, b February 14, 1847 in Laurens District, South Carolina, d January 11, 1886 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery, Falls County, Texas - was the eldest son of Leroy and Louisa Eliza (Arnold) Johnson of South Carolina. He moved with his parents to Alabama and then to Arkansas, and finally settled in Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas in 1872.

     On August 1, 1875, Albert was married to Lydia Ann Clementine Jackson, b October 25, 1853 in Benton County, Alabama, d April 16, 1905 in Marlin, and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin because heavy rains prevented her burial in the Blue Ridge Cemetery. She was a daughter of John Wesley Jackson II and his wife, Lydia Berry (Clements) Jackson of Gwinnet County, Georgia.

     Albert was a handsome, brown-eyed, black haired man of a height of six feet, while Clementine was a petite miss. They had two children: Clarac Alma Johnson, b December 23, 1878, d September 17, 1937, who married George Woodland; and an infant son, Albert Carl Johnson, b April 5, 1882, d May 6, 1882 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.

     Albert lived only four years after purchasing one quarter league of land at Hog Island, and Clementine retained about 800 acres, part of which is still owned by her great granddaughter, Mrs. Lavonne (Pratt) Rogers. After Albert's death, Clementine took her eight-year-old daughter to California for two years, to Seattle for one year, for visits with the Jackson relatives. After their return to Falls County, Clarac Alma was educated in Temple, Texas for three years. She married on January 2, 1895, one week after her sixteenth birthday to George Woodland who was soon to be 28 years old.

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.

"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 251 column 1 and 2.  

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