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Taylor Cemetery ~ John J. Johnson ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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John J. Johnson
LAST NAME: Johnson FIRST NAME: John MIDDLE NAME: J. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 1816 DIED: 1877 BURIED:  (Taylor Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  New York
DEATH PLACE: ORegon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - "John J. Johnson & Phebe Apleby [Appleby] Taylor, m 19 Mar 1854; B. F. Music". 
1850 OR CENSUS - John Johnson, age 28, b. New York, is enumerated with the family of Wm. Aldridge, age 32, b. Kentucky.
1860 OR CENSUS - John Johnson, age 45 occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with P. A., age 30, b. New York, along with A. P. Johnson, age 2, b. Oregon, E. J. Johnson, age 8 months, b. Oregon.  Also enumerated with the family is C. Zumwalt, female, age 11, b. Oregon.
1870 OR CENSUS - John Johnson, age 54, occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with wife Phebe A., age 40, b. New York, along with Alcida, age 12, b. Oregon, and Ester, age 10, b. Oregon. 
[note - John Johnson, was the brother of his wife, Phebe's, step-mother: Margaret (Johnson) Taylor Riggs.] 

BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - WPA Historical Records, Benton Co., Oregon, WPA interview of his great-niece, Molly Taylor Marks, Jun 1938):
"Mrs. Marks was interviewed at the old Marks homestead, about six miles north of Summit on Fern Ridge. Both her parents and her husband's parents were pioneers. Her memory of early events in her own life is good, and she has much information that has been handed down from her elders. She is a widow, and lives at the old home with a son.
"...I was born in Peedee. My father was Anderson Taylor who crossed the plains in 1850 at the age of fourteen. Father's uncle, John Johnson who had crossed the plains four times, was captain of the train. He had a place already located near Peedee for grandfather, James Taylor. When they settled there the country was undeveloped and mail and groceries had to be brought from Oregon City."
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
Johnson
John Johnson
1816 - 1877
(shares monument with his wife, Phebe A.)
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Branigar Survey
1850 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #5)
Polk Co., Oregon Marriage Records 1849 - 1879, pg 6 
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, FA #417)
1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, FA #636)
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