Seventh Generation

64. Hugh Johnson⁶ was born on 12 Aug 1750 in North Carolina. He served in the military between 1775 and 1783.¹⁹ Hugh JOHNSON served in the war from North Carolina under Captain Alexander. He was born of Scotch ancestry in North Carolina. After the war he moved to two miles of Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. He next moved to Clinton County and then about 1812, he moved to New Madrid County, Missouri where he lived at the time of the celebrated earthquake there. He then returned to Clinton County, Illinois, settling in the Sugar Creek precinct, about three miles south of Trenton, where he owned a cotton gin. He was married to Winnie Flaherty, of Irish descent. The first regular appointment of a preaching place was at his home, established in 1817 or earlier. About 1825, a log church was built there and called Sharon. It was the first Methodist house of worship in the county. He died at his home, aged 85 years. "North Carolina Records and Clinton County History." Dr. Worley, a descendant, erected a monument to Mr. Johnson at the probable burial site, the abandoned Sharon Cemetery southeast of Trenton on Rocky Ford Road. This is the only known marker of these eleven men, as researched by Harold Gentz of the Clinton County Historical Society in the 1990's.
He lived in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky in 1788.⁶ He died on 4 Feb 1835 in Trenton, Clinton County, Illinois. He was buried in Sharon Cemetery, Trenton, Clinton County, Illinois.⁶ His tombstone is a newer one placed by the Sons of the American Revolution in honor of his service in the American Revolution. It lists him as a member of the North Carolina Militia. Hugh Johnson and Winne Flaherty were married.⁶ They appeared in the census in 1810 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.²⁰ They appeared in the census in 1820 in Sugar Creek Township, Washington County, Illinois.²¹ They appeared in the census in 1830 in Clinton County, Illinois.²²

65. Winne Flaherty was born between 1760 and 1770.²³ Children were:

	i.	Daniel Johnson.6
	ii.	James Johnson.6
	iii.	Katherine Johnson.6
	iv.	Malcom Johnson.6
	v.	Mary Ann Johnson.6
32	vi.	John B Johnson.
	vii.	William Johnson Jr6 was born in 1800 in Kentucky. He died in 1867. He settled in section 28, west of Sugar Creek, in the spring of 1817, where he lived over 50 years. He was one of the County Commissioners in early time, a justice of the peace for a number of years, and a very prominent citizen. He moved into the south-east part of the county near Crooked Creek, where he died about 1876. He reared a family of three sons and one daughter. Hugh Johnson, who lived in the neighborhood where his father died, was the only survivor of the family in 1881. A William Johnson Sr. is listed as one of the first Methodist ministers in the Trenton area.