Re: PETERSON FAMILY Pemiscot Co. MO.
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PETERSON FAMILY Pemiscot Co. MO.
Tim Williams 5/14/05
Hi Tim, I am looking for a Mary F. Peterson who may have been the daughter of a Sarah J. Johnson and Abner Johnson of Martin IN.Abner died in 1858 there and then his widow Sarah J. married Caswell Cooper. They moved with their combined families to Butler county Mo where Caswell died in 1870. Sarah J. Cooper is shown living with her daugher Eliza J. Griffith in the 1900 St. Francois/Butler/MO census.I have reason to believe that Eliza J. and Mary F. (Mrs. Peterson) may have been sisters and both the chidlren of Sarah J and Abner Johnson. They both appear as witnesses in the Civil War pension papers of Caswell in 1891 stating that they had known Sarah and Abner all of their lives.
I descend from Caswell and his first wife, Mary A. Bolton and am trying to find any descendants of these folks who may have information on this MO fam ily.
Thank you,
Donna Crosby