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.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.