Re: Eve Kimbro b 1809 married David Brooks Johnson
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Eve Kimbro b 1809 married David Brooks Johnson
Myra Bowling 9/20/05
Hello Myra,
This may be the same family, but not necessarily the same person.My first cousin four generations back, Fruzanna Bowles was married to a David Brooks Johnson, and they lived in the part of Surry County, NC which became Yadkin County in 1850.This David was a son of Anderson Johnson and Sarah Brooks. Fruzanna was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Wells Bowles.
The following was about Anderson Johnson and family:
>>The following was written in William Evans' journal in the year 1841.9
We got to Anderson Johnson's at Hunting Creek; whose wife is a daughter of David Brooks, a minister, with whom my uncle, Thomas Scattergood, was travelling as companion, when he first appeared in the ministry. To find ourselves once more amongst those of the same religions profession, imparted pleasant sensations. This Friend, we were informed, was prosecuted for aiding a slave to make his escape; and though the charge was entirely unfounded, yet from false evidence, he was amerced to the value of the runaway, and costs and damages, amounting to about twelve hundred dollars. This iniquitous decision seemed likely to ruin him; he was compelled to sell his horses and cattle, and part of his house furniture, and with much difficulty made up the sum, and prevented his prosecutors from selling his farm; and thereby throwing him and his dependent family houseless upon the world. Now, more than seventy years old, he is unable to labor hard, and from the great loss and the difficulty in selling produce, he has to endure privations which, at their time of life, he and his afflicted wife ought not to be subjected to.
William Evans, Journal of the Life and Religious Services of William Evans, a Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends (Philadelphia: Privately published (For sale at Friends' Book Store), 1870), 240-241.
The above is from "The Coon Families of East Central Indiana", Elizabeth Wilson VandenBerg, author, online
Let me know if any of this seems familiar.
Best regards,
John Fox
Winston Salem, NC
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Re: Eve Kimbro b 1809 married David Brooks Johnson
Myra Bowling 10/17/06