The daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia
CAROLINE was quite a belle. She seems to have been educated for those days as she taught school and after they came to Texas, she was a doctor, mostly a mid-wife, and seemed to be pretty good as she kept busy. Caroline died at the young age of 57 from exposure, or pneumonia, from riding a horse in freezing weather to care for the sick.
The mother of nine children, Adaline Elizabeth, Zilpha Ann, Mary Louisa, Joyce Shaw, and John Overstreet; John Madison Horne; Thomas Benton and Jeff Davis Keen; and Martha Strother... Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston Overstreet Horne Keen Strother was born May 28, 1828 in Alabama. She was the daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia. She died January 15, 1885 in Grapeland, Texas.
Children :Zilpha Ann "Ziffie" Overstreet Parker
Adaline Elizabeth "Lizzie" Overstreet Keen
The daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia
CAROLINE was quite a belle. She seems to have been educated for those days as she taught school and after they came to Texas, she was a doctor, mostly a mid-wife, and seemed to be pretty good as she kept busy. Caroline died at the young age of 57 from exposure, or pneumonia, from riding a horse in freezing weather to care for the sick.
The mother of nine children, Adaline Elizabeth, Zilpha Ann, Mary Louisa, Joyce Shaw, and John Overstreet; John Madison Horne; Thomas Benton and Jeff Davis Keen; and Martha Strother... Caroline Frances Permelia Johnston Overstreet Horne Keen Strother was born May 28, 1828 in Alabama. She was the daughter of Benjamin Johnston and Zilpha Young of Georgia. She died January 15, 1885 in Grapeland, Texas.
Children :Zilpha Ann "Ziffie" Overstreet Parker
Adaline Elizabeth "Lizzie" Overstreet Keen
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