GED4WEB version 4.41 Pugh Caroline Elizabeth [Female] b. 6 JUL 1828 Georgia - d. 21 FEB 1887 Panola County Texas
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Title: Early Settlers Along the Old Federal Road in Monroe and Conecuh Counties - 1976 by Mary Brentley
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Caroline was the widow of James Murray and the Mother of three children: James Thomas, Sarah Caroline, and Mary Martha. These three children came to Texas with Caroline and her new husband, Peter Lazrus Johnson in 1854. Sarah died as a young girl; Mary Martha 'Mollie' married Bill Lewis Needham; (they had no children.) James married and had several children (found in later reports). All three Murray children are buried in the Old Center Cemetery..
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Title: Rosa Lee Hancock Edge via Ron Stratton and Cora Johnson Burford
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P. L. Johnson gave his daughter Laura, 40 acres of land behind the Joe Soape place.
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Title: Rosa Lee Hancock Edge via Ron Stratton and Cora Johnson Burford
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Title: Peter Lazrus Johnson's letter of 6-20-1904
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Title: Fed. Census
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Title: Samual Christopher Johnson - Family Bible
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Title: Ronald Stratton
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All information on the first 3 generations of the Johnson's comes from the personal notes of Rosa Lee Hancock Edge, obtained from Johnson descendants.
About 1818 the three siblings - William Burton, Mary, and Washington Johnson, moved near Evergreen, Alabama. The death date '1846' comes from a Bible passed down from Samuel C. Johnson to grandson Aden Johnson son of George Nolan Johnson. 'Sept. 17' date comes from Lee Ann Langford, a descendent of Laura Susan Johnson and Giles Bowers.
Fact 1 August 17, 1846
Fell from horse and died.
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AKA - Dick
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Stella was the first born of Samuel Pugh and Lenora Pou Johnson. She did not have an opportunity to attend school beyond the local rural school at Old Center, but she continued to improve her mind by reading papers, magazines, books, articles, and studying her Bible. She was a close observer and learned to sew very young. She made her own clothes, including her wedding dress, (she married one month and two days before her eighteenth birthday) and sewed for the younger brothers and sisters while she lived at home. She was a regular laborer in the field with her father and brother, Nathe, and helped with all of the household chores and caring for the younger siblings. Stella and Bob lived with Bob's parents for about a year and a half, and during this time she would substitute for the teacher of the Rural Flat School, when needed. Then they bought a farm with a farm house on it that joined her mother and father's farm, and was part of the land which her Grandparents Peter Lazarus and Caroline Elizabeth Pugh Murray Johnson had bought when they settled in Texas during the 1850's. Five children were born into this family - all were able to attend and graduate from high school because of Stella and Bob's commitment and belief for education. Q.M. Marin, Superintendent of Carthage Schools, asked them to serve on a committee and go with them to study the school busing system of Louisiana. As a result of this study, Carthage School District voted to include a busing system. With Uncle Nathe as the first bus driver, I (Rosa Lee) was able to live at home my senior year of high school. I had lived with my Grandmother and Granddaddy Johnson and their family during the week and attended the high school in Tenaha during my eight and ninth grades. My junior year I had commuted three miles on horseback and the other five miles with four other students in a car. The bus was a welcomed change. Of the five Hancock children, four attended Stephen F. Austin State College (later University) and one of them attended Panola Junior College. (Bob Hancock had been one of the early signers of the petition to build a Junior College at Carthage) Two of the children earned B.S. Degrees from Stephen F. Austin University, one also received the Master of Education and these two taught school until they retired. Stella and Bob both worked very hard and were very frugal. They attempted anything honest that they thought would help to provide for the family needs. Stella did not think she could start into a fall and winter season without having at LEAST 1,200 to 1,500 jars and cans of vegetables, fruits, jams, jellies, pickles, etc. in the cellar. Bob thought he had to have at least a canned beef and several hogs made into sausage, hams, and bacon in the smoke house. The most pork he ever had was the year that he killed 26 hogs which of course provided 52 hams hanging in the smokehouse at one time. Many years they made hundreds of gallons of syrup, harvested hundreds of bushels of sweet potatoes, dry peas, corn and grew fresh vegetables in the garden and truck patches. They were the first to grow broilers for sale in Panola and Shelby Counties. When Tenaha celebrated their Centennial in 1986, the R.E. Hancock family was resented a Certificate of Appreciation for being the first person to their knowledge to have grown broilers for the commercial market. One year during the Depression Years, the government encouraged people to gather the 'scrap ' cotton and make mattresses. Stella was asked to oversee this operation in the local community. (They were very good, comfortable ones !) Many years Stella cooked for her family of seven, three black wage hands, and the three school teachers which boarded in their home (remember - no modern facilities !!!) The family attended church and Sunday School twice on Sunday at New Hope Baptist Church in Woods Community (named for Stella's Great Grandfather, Theodoric B. Wood, who was the first postmaster of the local post office; he was appointed January 16, 1854.) Her grandfather, Peter Lazrus Johnson had helped organize the church in the 1850's; her father, Samuel Pugh Johnson, had been ordained to preach the gospel, on August 9, 1913, in this church; and her son-in-law, James Byron McDaniel, was also ordained to preach the gospel, on January 9, 1966, in this same church. Stella served as Church Clerk for about 40 years. She served on the committee to collect money for the upkeep of Old Center Cemetery for many years. After having learned to give injections, after Bobbie Jean became a diabetic at age seven, she always seemed to find time to go to people's homes to give shots which doctors prescribed when people were too ill and unable to get to the doctor's office. Stella had a cerebral hemorrhage in April of 1970, but, returned to fair health until she started having heart attacks in October of 1970. She died after a month in the hospital with frequent heart attacks, and was buried at Old Center. by: Rosa Lee Hancock Edge
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Uncle Nathe, the man with the patience of Job and nerves of steel, was hired (by Carthage School Dist.) to furnish his own bus and pick up and deliver the older children of Old Center, Rural Flat, and Antioch school Districts. (and take them to Carthage for High School). This he did for several years beginning in the fall of 1934. This enabled me (Rosa Lee), to be able to live at home my senior year of high school. The bus was a welcomed change. by: Rosa Lee Hancock Edge
My early memories of Uncle Nathe and Aunt Mary Lee is still very vivid. One trip to Old Center we were late, it was raining and darkness had caught us on the road. I was very frighten slipping and sliding down the 'red clay hill from Old Center to Uncle Nathe's house - but when we arrived the kerosine lamps, with their very tall chimneys, were lit and in their usual place on the mantle above the fire place. Aunt Mary Lee and Uncle Nathe were calmly sitting in their matching rocking chairs waiting for our arrival. The next morning Aunt Mary Lee was in the kitchen at the old wood stove preparing biscuits, bacon and eggs. I was amazed at her accurate timing on baking the food - how did she know how hot the oven was ??? At lunch time Hazel and I were told to 'go get a bottle of ketchup'; We proceeded to the little building in the back yard were all the canned goods were kept. Again I could not grasp the fact that this item was home made - I thought only grocery stores had ketchup. On one visit I remember going to the field and picking several watermelons, just for us kids to eat !! I remember Uncle Nathe taking the horse drawn sled, with a barrel, to a spring for water; and the bucket of drinking water, with dipper, that always sat on a shelf by the kitchen door. ( This shelf also held a basin to wash your hands in before each meal.) Of course the memory picture would not be complete with out mentioning the 'necessary building' out back, and the # 3 wash tubs that hung on nails on the back of the house and were used for 'bathing bodies' as well as clothes. One last memory: we kids were playing in the woods near the house and I stepped on a LARGE thorn. Aunt Mary Lee cooked up some oatmeat and made me a 'hot oatmeat poultice' that was tied around my foot to extract the poison and releive the PAIN !!! My foot was greatly improved by the next morning and was soon forgotten. by: Vivian W. Sharit
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Clara, the third child of Samuel Pugh and Lenora Pou Johnson was born in the Old Center Community of Panola County and was named "Clara" for her Aunt Clara Pou Hancock and "Elizabeth" for her Grandmother, Caroline Elizabeth Pugh Murray Johnson. Clara attended the first eight grades at Old Center School in Panola County, and in the fall of 1918 she went to Carthage, Texas, and boarded with Mrs. Etheredge (Ms. Etheredge had taught school in the past at Old Center) to finish her high school education. After she had completed her junior year, she married Clifton Bunyard of Cartage, but returned to school the following year, graduating with honors in 1921. (PEOPLE - REMEMBER THIS IS THE 1920'S. a lot of girls never attended high school and CERTAINLY NOT as a married laClarellksss;aldfkdjthis was a rare and nearly un-heard of, thing to happen; When my sister, Lenora Ann attended high school after she married, in 1953, she was not allowed to participate in ANY extra curricular activities !! they did not want married women to mix with the young Innocent 'children'.!!@@@@##?? v.w.s.) Clara began her teaching career that fall, 1921, at Midyett, a rural school in Panola County. She earned an A.A> Degree from the College of Marshall, a B.A. Degree from North Texas State University at Denton, and a M.A. Degree from the University of Houston. After she and Clifton were divorced, she went over seas to teach school. She retired in June 1970 after 18 years of service with the United States Overseas Dependent Schools at Okinawa, Japan. While teaching there she was principal of an elementary school. by: Rosa Lee Hancock Edge.
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Cora finished Tenaha High School with Honors, in 1925, Marshall College in 1927, and began teaching at Hightower, Liberty County, Texas that fall. Later Cora would continue her education at Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas. After retirement, May 31, 1973, she wrote and published a pictorial book called: "My Home My Family My Life". This book has been an inspiration and a constant reference in my efforts in compiling this Johnson genealogy. As you read her book, you know what was important to Aunt Cora - FAMILY ! This book is filled with happy memories and never a word of complaint, pity, disappointment, or anger; A true testimony of a person who knew she was living the life she was meant to live. Aunt Cora's book is also a great detailed reference to the way life was for our ancestors. I will remember Aunt Cora as a soft spoken, patient person, who loved to learn and to inspire others to learn. by: Vivian W. Sharit
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Uncle Carroll was (according to Aunt Cora's book) named after a person in a book that Grandpa Sam Johnson was reading. My memories of Uncle Carroll are of a man with a great sense of humor and with a bag full of pratical jokes; you could never be down in the dumps when he was around. In my last talk with Uncle S.P., he said this "Carroll could kill a running rabbit with a 45 pistol. He learned to shoot this well in the army in the Panama Canal Zone -- part of 1927, all of 1928 and 1929, and part of 1930. Back then they didn't have 'home leave' and Carroll said every time he got home sick he would go get a tatoo !! or go target practicing !!" Vivian W. Sharit
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