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John Jacob Johnson was born into slavery in 1840 in Virginia. He had children with Rose Johnson (born in Alabama - 1848) between 1860 and 1887. One of their sons, Peter Jack Johnson was born before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1860 in Mississippi.  He had eight sons and eight daughters. Peter was married 3 times in Mississippi.

1. Hannah Emma Jordan Johnson (Married  Clarke County, MS)  22 Dec 1880 

2. Ida Mae Owens Johnson (Married Enterprise, MS) in 1900

3. Nettie Jordan Johnson (Married Jasper County, MS) 18 Sep 1921

The Johnson-Jordan Family Trees

Hattie Johnson Lang - 1883 - 1943

Pearl Johnson Doby - 1887 - 1961

Julia Ann Johnson Vaughn - 1890 - 1966

Corbet Johnson - 1892 - unknown

Daisy Love Bell - 1899 - 1952

Thomas "Tom" Johnson - 1900 - 1992

Joseph Johnson - 1903 - 1973

Dessie L Johnson Jordan - 1904 - 1924

James "Eli/EJ" Johnson - 1906 -unknown

John Anderson Johnson - 1907 - 1987

Octavia Johnson Lott - 1910 - 2000

Ethel Mae Johnson Ryan - 1911 - 1935

Jack Johnson - 1913 - 1990

A. C. (Arthur Curtis) Johnson - 1915 - 1991

Frank O. Johnson, Sr. - 1917 - 2000

Inez Scott Hudson - 1924 - 2018

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John Jacob and Rose's second son Willis Johnson was born March 1863 in Mississippi.  He was married March 16, 1884 to Dicey Jordan Johnson born March 1863 in Jasper County, Mississippi and had the following seven children:

Calla Johnson Byrd - 1883 - 1919

Briney Johnson 1884 - unknown

Ada C Johnson Bender - 1886 - 1942

Hettie Jester Johnson Warren - 1889 - unknown

Eliza Johnson Dukes - 1893 - 1948

Sullivan Johnson - 1893 - 1956

Edna Johnson - 1897 - unknown

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