Son of Allen and Pennie (Allen) Johnson. Husband of Margaret (Johnson) Johnson.
Rufus A. Johnson married Margaret Johnson on September 30, 1866 in Johnston County, NC. Margaret Johnson was the wife of James Johnson and Ary Parrish.
Fort, J. O., revising editor, "History of the Free Will Baptists of North Carolina, Book Two" pp. 345-347.
Originally written by Elder J. M. Barfield and Elder Thad Harrison ca. 1898/99.
Elder R. A. Johnson
Elder Johnson, our beloved and deceased brother in Christ, a native of Johnston County, North Carolina, was born March 18, 1846 [March 12, 1846 per grave marker].
He was married to Miss Margaret Johnson, September 30, 1866. He professed religion and united with the Free Will Baptist Church, November 26, 1868; and feeling divinely called to preach the gospel, he was granted license to exercise his gift in the ministry. He commenced to preach June 10, 1869, and from that time proved to be a great instrument in turning many souls from nature's darkness unto the glorious light and liberty of the Lord Jesus Christ by the beautiful declaration of God's holy Word.
Elder Johnson was loved by a large multitude of people all over North Carolina. He was devoted to his family, and succeeded in providing bread for them after the manner in which God told Adams he should eat bread by the sweat of his face, and he was quite a swift accumulator, and a very liberal giver to all benevolent organizations for good, especially that of his denomination which he so dearly loved.
With joy and thanks, his surviving brethren in Christ can behold, with mortal and tearful eyes, the beautiful churches he was instrumental in building for which he has gone to be rewarded by his heavenly Father, and to inherit a home in the mansions above. Although the bustle of persecution seemed to do all they could to cause him to fall out by the way, he was like unto a house built upon a rock, he fell not; though the storms of persecution howled around him, he was able to speak with God's holy Word, "He that putteth his hand to the plow, and looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God."
Elder Johnson was a consistent member of the church, faithful to go to his appointments, and reserved a good name until death. He spent twenty-four years of his life in the ministry, and proved to be successful in his ministerial undertakings. He passed away in January, 1893, in the forty-seventh year of his age. He left a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a Christian husband and father.
He was so much concerned about the spiritual welfare of his children that, just before the hour of his death when his strength was almost gone, he called them to his dying bedside and instructed them manfully, as to the duty they owed to God, and especially the two youngest which were boys, and had never made a public profession of faith in Christ. He required them to get down on their knees by his dying bed, and place their hands in his, and promise him that they would abstain from strong drink, and instructed them in general to quit their manner of living and live soberly, righteously and Godly in this world, if they would reach heaven and immortal glory.
Elder Johnson left a bright testimony by his manner of life, and in the trying hour of death, said that he was going to the glory world.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."
Rufus A. Johnson married Margaret Johnson on September 30, 1866 in Johnston County, NC. Margaret Johnson was the wife of James Johnson and Ary Parrish.
Fort, J. O., revising editor, "History of the Free Will Baptists of North Carolina, Book Two" pp. 345-347.
Originally written by Elder J. M. Barfield and Elder Thad Harrison ca. 1898/99.
Elder R. A. Johnson
Elder Johnson, our beloved and deceased brother in Christ, a native of Johnston County, North Carolina, was born March 18, 1846 [March 12, 1846 per grave marker].
He was married to Miss Margaret Johnson, September 30, 1866. He professed religion and united with the Free Will Baptist Church, November 26, 1868; and feeling divinely called to preach the gospel, he was granted license to exercise his gift in the ministry. He commenced to preach June 10, 1869, and from that time proved to be a great instrument in turning many souls from nature's darkness unto the glorious light and liberty of the Lord Jesus Christ by the beautiful declaration of God's holy Word.
Elder Johnson was loved by a large multitude of people all over North Carolina. He was devoted to his family, and succeeded in providing bread for them after the manner in which God told Adams he should eat bread by the sweat of his face, and he was quite a swift accumulator, and a very liberal giver to all benevolent organizations for good, especially that of his denomination which he so dearly loved.
With joy and thanks, his surviving brethren in Christ can behold, with mortal and tearful eyes, the beautiful churches he was instrumental in building for which he has gone to be rewarded by his heavenly Father, and to inherit a home in the mansions above. Although the bustle of persecution seemed to do all they could to cause him to fall out by the way, he was like unto a house built upon a rock, he fell not; though the storms of persecution howled around him, he was able to speak with God's holy Word, "He that putteth his hand to the plow, and looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God."
Elder Johnson was a consistent member of the church, faithful to go to his appointments, and reserved a good name until death. He spent twenty-four years of his life in the ministry, and proved to be successful in his ministerial undertakings. He passed away in January, 1893, in the forty-seventh year of his age. He left a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a Christian husband and father.
He was so much concerned about the spiritual welfare of his children that, just before the hour of his death when his strength was almost gone, he called them to his dying bedside and instructed them manfully, as to the duty they owed to God, and especially the two youngest which were boys, and had never made a public profession of faith in Christ. He required them to get down on their knees by his dying bed, and place their hands in his, and promise him that they would abstain from strong drink, and instructed them in general to quit their manner of living and live soberly, righteously and Godly in this world, if they would reach heaven and immortal glory.
Elder Johnson left a bright testimony by his manner of life, and in the trying hour of death, said that he was going to the glory world.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."
Son of Allen and Pennie (Allen) Johnson. Husband of Margaret (Johnson) Johnson.
Rufus A. Johnson married Margaret Johnson on September 30, 1866 in Johnston County, NC. Margaret Johnson was the wife of James Johnson and Ary Parrish.
Fort, J. O., revising editor, "History of the Free Will Baptists of North Carolina, Book Two" pp. 345-347.
Originally written by Elder J. M. Barfield and Elder Thad Harrison ca. 1898/99.
Elder R. A. Johnson
Elder Johnson, our beloved and deceased brother in Christ, a native of Johnston County, North Carolina, was born March 18, 1846 [March 12, 1846 per grave marker].
He was married to Miss Margaret Johnson, September 30, 1866. He professed religion and united with the Free Will Baptist Church, November 26, 1868; and feeling divinely called to preach the gospel, he was granted license to exercise his gift in the ministry. He commenced to preach June 10, 1869, and from that time proved to be a great instrument in turning many souls from nature's darkness unto the glorious light and liberty of the Lord Jesus Christ by the beautiful declaration of God's holy Word.
Elder Johnson was loved by a large multitude of people all over North Carolina. He was devoted to his family, and succeeded in providing bread for them after the manner in which God told Adams he should eat bread by the sweat of his face, and he was quite a swift accumulator, and a very liberal giver to all benevolent organizations for good, especially that of his denomination which he so dearly loved.
With joy and thanks, his surviving brethren in Christ can behold, with mortal and tearful eyes, the beautiful churches he was instrumental in building for which he has gone to be rewarded by his heavenly Father, and to inherit a home in the mansions above. Although the bustle of persecution seemed to do all they could to cause him to fall out by the way, he was like unto a house built upon a rock, he fell not; though the storms of persecution howled around him, he was able to speak with God's holy Word, "He that putteth his hand to the plow, and looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God."
Elder Johnson was a consistent member of the church, faithful to go to his appointments, and reserved a good name until death. He spent twenty-four years of his life in the ministry, and proved to be successful in his ministerial undertakings. He passed away in January, 1893, in the forty-seventh year of his age. He left a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a Christian husband and father.
He was so much concerned about the spiritual welfare of his children that, just before the hour of his death when his strength was almost gone, he called them to his dying bedside and instructed them manfully, as to the duty they owed to God, and especially the two youngest which were boys, and had never made a public profession of faith in Christ. He required them to get down on their knees by his dying bed, and place their hands in his, and promise him that they would abstain from strong drink, and instructed them in general to quit their manner of living and live soberly, righteously and Godly in this world, if they would reach heaven and immortal glory.
Elder Johnson left a bright testimony by his manner of life, and in the trying hour of death, said that he was going to the glory world.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."
Rufus A. Johnson married Margaret Johnson on September 30, 1866 in Johnston County, NC. Margaret Johnson was the wife of James Johnson and Ary Parrish.
Fort, J. O., revising editor, "History of the Free Will Baptists of North Carolina, Book Two" pp. 345-347.
Originally written by Elder J. M. Barfield and Elder Thad Harrison ca. 1898/99.
Elder R. A. Johnson
Elder Johnson, our beloved and deceased brother in Christ, a native of Johnston County, North Carolina, was born March 18, 1846 [March 12, 1846 per grave marker].
He was married to Miss Margaret Johnson, September 30, 1866. He professed religion and united with the Free Will Baptist Church, November 26, 1868; and feeling divinely called to preach the gospel, he was granted license to exercise his gift in the ministry. He commenced to preach June 10, 1869, and from that time proved to be a great instrument in turning many souls from nature's darkness unto the glorious light and liberty of the Lord Jesus Christ by the beautiful declaration of God's holy Word.
Elder Johnson was loved by a large multitude of people all over North Carolina. He was devoted to his family, and succeeded in providing bread for them after the manner in which God told Adams he should eat bread by the sweat of his face, and he was quite a swift accumulator, and a very liberal giver to all benevolent organizations for good, especially that of his denomination which he so dearly loved.
With joy and thanks, his surviving brethren in Christ can behold, with mortal and tearful eyes, the beautiful churches he was instrumental in building for which he has gone to be rewarded by his heavenly Father, and to inherit a home in the mansions above. Although the bustle of persecution seemed to do all they could to cause him to fall out by the way, he was like unto a house built upon a rock, he fell not; though the storms of persecution howled around him, he was able to speak with God's holy Word, "He that putteth his hand to the plow, and looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God."
Elder Johnson was a consistent member of the church, faithful to go to his appointments, and reserved a good name until death. He spent twenty-four years of his life in the ministry, and proved to be successful in his ministerial undertakings. He passed away in January, 1893, in the forty-seventh year of his age. He left a wife and five children to mourn the loss of a Christian husband and father.
He was so much concerned about the spiritual welfare of his children that, just before the hour of his death when his strength was almost gone, he called them to his dying bedside and instructed them manfully, as to the duty they owed to God, and especially the two youngest which were boys, and had never made a public profession of faith in Christ. He required them to get down on their knees by his dying bed, and place their hands in his, and promise him that they would abstain from strong drink, and instructed them in general to quit their manner of living and live soberly, righteously and Godly in this world, if they would reach heaven and immortal glory.
Elder Johnson left a bright testimony by his manner of life, and in the trying hour of death, said that he was going to the glory world.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."
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