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Hello, cuz ...
Found your old posts when just surfing around today.
Don't remember if I told you, but I found Otho and Elmira (Dickey) Brashear in Webster County in the 1870 census. Problem is the census taker mispelled the name as Beshear. I can find no trace of them after that, so I think it likely they died before the 1880 census -- thus sometime in the 1870s. Wonder if there's a cemetery record of them in Webster County. I recall my great uncle Guy Whit Rice (granddaughter of Amanda Juantha Brashear and William Greenville Sammons) saying this his mother's family were Yankees! (Decidedly scandalous in Webster Co.) Well, I know the Sammons were all Confederate sympathizers, and some of my Sammons cousins in Virginia served in Lee's army. I also don't believe the Brashears were pro-Union either. I imagine he was referring to Richard Duffield Johnson and his relations. Oddly enough, no one seems to have tried to trace Andrew Johnson's ancestory beyond his father. That seems odd, even though he wasn't exactly the most popular US President. Richard D. Johnson may have been a close cousin of Andrew Johnson, but that's just speculation. You'd have to dig into President Johnson's ancestory to find out if his father had any brothers.
Charles Rice
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