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Children
of
William Johnson & Rebecca Callahan


FRANCES "FANNIE" ELIZABETH JOHNSON
born 19 July 1839 Georgia
married 22 January 1861
Robert Gilliam Goree
died 1 December 1865 Georgia
1860 Census: residing in the John Renwick household in Newberry District, South Carolina; occupation - school mistress

MARY ISABELLA JOHNSON
born 28 January 1841 Georgia
m Edwin L. Burton
died 6 November 1910 Bonham, Fannin County, Texas

NANNIE REBECCA JOHNSON
born 10 September 1844 Georgia
#1 married ca 1868 Thomas J. Sanford
#2 married Robert Gilliam Goree 28 January 1875 Grayson County, Texas
died 12 April 1917 Grayson County, Texas


Robert Gilliam Goree

Robert Gilliam Goree was the son of Redden Goree (1802 - 1843) and Sarah "Sallie" Thompson "1809 - 1843". He was from Newberry District, South Carolina and was the only member of his family to migrate to Texas.  
Robert Goree married Frances "Fannie" Elizabeth Johnson on January 22, 1865 in Georgia.  After his wife's death in 1865, he and his son moved to Fannin County, Texas in about 1870, later moving to Grayson County, Texas.

Child

of
Robert Gilliam Goree & Frances Elizabeth Johnson

JAMES WILLIAM GOREE
born June 26, 1862 in Georgia
married Mary Ella Gowdy in 1892

ca 1890

Robert Gilliam Goree, widower, married his widowed sister-in-law, Nannie Rebecca Johnson Sanford, on January 28, 1875 in Grayson County, Texas.  Robert died in 1911; his wife, Nannie, died in 1917. Both are buried in the Virginia Point Cemetery.


Nannie Rebecca Johnson Sanford Goree

Children
of
Robert Gilliam Goree & Nannie Rebecca Johnson Sanford

SALLIE EUDORA GOREE b January 1876 d October 1876
MARY OPHELIA GOREE b June 1877 d February 1957
ROSADALIAS D. GOREE b October 1879 d November 1920
EDGAR GOREE b March 1881 d May 1966






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