WILLIAM HENRY CLAY JOHNSON
SURNAMES: JOHNSON, GILLETT, FLOWERS, BOWLES, BOYLES, WAGNON, WARD, ALLEN, FALCONER, BRAN, NUM, BLETCH, SEARS, OWEN, BURKE, COBB.
William
Henry Clay Johnson, b February 24,1825 in Tennessee, d May 14, 1893 at Reagan,
Falls County, Texas and buried in Johnson Cemetery - was a son of Hezekiah
George Johnson, b 1797 in South Carolina, and his wife, Elizabeth, b 1799 in
Tennessee. In 1850, the family was living in Montgomery County, Texas with ten
children - four of whom were born in Alabama before the family moved to The
Republic of Texas in 1836.
On July
15, 1873 in Falls County, Texas, W. H. C. Johnson was married to Mrs. Hannah
Elizabeth (Gillett) Flowers, b May 11, 1842 in Texas, d January 3, 1923 in
Marlin, Falls County, Texas and buried there in Calvary Cemetery - a daughter of
Reverend Ro- swell and Martha S. (Bowles) Gillett, who settled about 1833 in
Texas (then Mexico). W. H. C. had been married twice previously, but both wives
died without issue soon after their marriages. He and Hannah lived in his log
cabin at Reagan, where six of their seven children were born:
Mary
Telephus Johnson, b April 23, 1874 - married first on November 24, 1892 to
Francis Marion Boyles, who died in 1917; married second on March 19, 1919 to
Reverend Andrew Asbury Wagnon, and had six children.
Maldanetta Cowan Johnson, b November 5,1875, d 1912 - married on August 7,1894
to Ben F. Ward, and had seven children - including Mary Frances Ward, who
married Walter Allen - son of Dr. Walter H. and Nettie (Falconer) Allen, of
Marlin.
Hezekiah
George Johnson, b February 16, 1878, d February 29, 1960 - married ca 1909 to
Mary Brannum, who died in 1943. He married second to Mrs. Laura (Bletch) Sears.
Hezekiah and Mary had one daughter, Helen Johnson.
Bessie
Lena Johnson, b September 3, 1879, d September 3,1961- married Walter Wyche
Owen, and had four children.
Lillie
Myrtle Johnson, b March 11, 1881- married June 10, 1900 to Ernest Robbins
Boyles.
Leona
Pearl Johnson, b November 30, 1882, died at Reagan - married December 11, 1904
to Zebulon A. Burke, who died April 1963 and buried at Reagan. They had
Elizaabeth Burke, and W. Zebulon Burke.
Frances
Gillett Johnson, b February 9, 1886, d July 16, 1970 in Marlin, Texas - married
November 16,1911 to Henry Lawrence Cobb.
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 252 Column 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.