Johnson, Ashley

JOHNSON

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 12:12:53

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.669

JOHNSON, ASHLEY, farmer, Jefferson Township, Sec. 25, P. O. Lothrop; born in Highland county, Ohio, July 12, 1817, and lived there till eighteen years of age, and emigrated with his parents to Madison county, Indiana, and remained five years, and returned to his native home; while there he married Miss Mary Hiestand, a native of the same county, March, 1842; came to Van Buren county, in 1848, and to this county, in 1854, and has made this his home since, except eight years that he lived in Polk county; has a family of five sons and two daughters living: Reason L., James H., Emaline E. (now Mrs. J. L. Leggett), C. A., Charlie and Belle, his son R. L., enlisted in the hundred day service, Co. D, Forty-eighth regiment, June, 1865, was mustered out in October, same year; owns a farm of 160 acres.