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| "The above is my
grandfather's Teacher's license from Town's Co. although I have never
heard that he taught. I have more pictures and documents including the
application of John Battles and Loas Johnson for the pension of their son Robert Gainway Johnson after he
died in the Civil War." |
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| "By far, the sample above
is part of the most interesting thing I found at the National Archives
a few years ago. There was a little box on a shelf that contained an
index of loyalist's claims to the US after the Civil War. I
include only a sample because
there are 80 standing interrogatories answered by Jessie, his 2
sons, and I may have one where John B. Johnson also answered these
interrogatories. In their answers, Jesse recounts how the
soldiers came and shot his dog
and took some of his things and left a receipt. I found it very
humanizing." |
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| "I found where Ira Grigg is buried in a
cemetery in Towns Co. although most of this family (Jesse Grigg - a
brother of Loas Grigg Johnson)
seems to have settled in Rabun Co. I have a lot of documentation
on that family as Jesse filed
for a loyalty claim after the civil war and in it recounts the northern
soldiers staying at his place. He talks about only one son who went to serve
for the South and they never saw him again - My mother's family tree from this area seems to get Union,
Rabun, Towns and Clay County all tied up together - looking at the surnames - I am not alone. George Walton Johnson's biography is also
listed in the Memoirs of GA." |
"The
above is an article in a Georgia paper after my grandfather returned
from WW I - some of it is boring - who would have thought there was so much down time in
France but there is also a lot of action - chasing the Germans out of a house and stopping to eat their
food because they were so hungry before they again took up pursuit - he was a forward observer and did see
some action in St. Michael and in the Argonne. He was gassed and had several other adventures all of which
he kept in a diary with him during the war - in fact I even think
his train ride to go up
north to leave for Europe is interesting - first time he had been out
of the state is my guess." |
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