Born probably in Londonderry, Ireland, son of David and Sarah Meek Johnston Jr. Married three times; first, Mary Caldwell in Londonderry, Ireland on July 2, 1785, second, Mrs. Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry; third, Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch. He died in Boligee, Greene Co., AL in 1843.
With his mother, three brothers, wife, and baby daughter he arrived in Charleston, S.C. September 4, 1787. He first lived in Fairfield Co. then moved to Chester and in the year 1806 moved to Newberry District. While in Newberry, he began business as a merchant. By the year 1814, he sold his store to his son-in-law Kerr Boyce and his son Samuel.
His first wife, Mary Caldwell died in 1831 and is buried at Mt. Olivet (Wateree) Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Fairfield Co. S.C. She was the daughter of Job Caldwell.
After her death he married the widow of John Lowry, Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry. Margaret died on August 31, 1835. Three days earlier, on her way to York, they dismissed their private carriage in Chester and took a public stage. The horses took fright and she was thrown from the stage.
His third wife was Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch.
With Jane and other members of his family, he moved to Greene Co., AL in 1840. He along with other family members settled in Boligee. He is buried in Bethsalem C. Yard, Boligee, AL very near his step-daughter Mary McCulloch Judge."
"John Johnstone, the father of the Chancellor, was one of nine sons of David Johnstone, and Sarah Meek, his wife. The family was honest and respectable, and of the class of small farmers. Though originally Scotch, they had been settled in Ireland as early as the contest [the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688] between William of Orange and his father-in-law James II. Being Presbyterians, they took sides with William, and a sword is still in the family, in this country, which was worn by Thomas Boyd, the maternal grandfather of David Johnstone at the siege of Londonderry.
[John Johnstone was not educated as well as his wife, Mary Caldwell], however he possessed an uncommonly strong mind. He had judgment, wit and an unusual command of language, and being of a cheerful temper, amounting to gaiety, his social qualities were quite attractive. These two parents, who were successful in life, used all opportunities within their reach, for the intellectual as well as the moral and religious training of their children. All persons possessed of attainments were made welcome to their home, and thus at the fireside and the hearth, their rising offspring were given the advantages of oral instruction, administered in a way to make it impressive. They were taught to be attentive listeners, and in the course of conversations, sometimes practical, sometimes speculative, sometimes spiced with wit or seasoned with humor, and sometimes mellowed with sentiment, or chastened with the grave and more awe-inspiring truths of religion and its obligations, they caught much that no vicissitude in after life could deprive them of. When no company was in the house, or when the company was such as permitted its being done, the invariable habit of each evening was for some one of the family to read some instructive or entertaining book, while the rest listened, and to intersperse the exercise with pertinent inquirers and replies for the better understanding of the author."
[REMINISCENCES OF NEWBERRY,John B. Carwile,pp 176&177]
With his mother, three brothers, wife, and baby daughter he arrived in Charleston, S.C. September 4, 1787. He first lived in Fairfield Co. then moved to Chester and in the year 1806 moved to Newberry District. While in Newberry, he began business as a merchant. By the year 1814, he sold his store to his son-in-law Kerr Boyce and his son Samuel.
His first wife, Mary Caldwell died in 1831 and is buried at Mt. Olivet (Wateree) Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Fairfield Co. S.C. She was the daughter of Job Caldwell.
After her death he married the widow of John Lowry, Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry. Margaret died on August 31, 1835. Three days earlier, on her way to York, they dismissed their private carriage in Chester and took a public stage. The horses took fright and she was thrown from the stage.
His third wife was Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch.
With Jane and other members of his family, he moved to Greene Co., AL in 1840. He along with other family members settled in Boligee. He is buried in Bethsalem C. Yard, Boligee, AL very near his step-daughter Mary McCulloch Judge."
"John Johnstone, the father of the Chancellor, was one of nine sons of David Johnstone, and Sarah Meek, his wife. The family was honest and respectable, and of the class of small farmers. Though originally Scotch, they had been settled in Ireland as early as the contest [the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688] between William of Orange and his father-in-law James II. Being Presbyterians, they took sides with William, and a sword is still in the family, in this country, which was worn by Thomas Boyd, the maternal grandfather of David Johnstone at the siege of Londonderry.
[John Johnstone was not educated as well as his wife, Mary Caldwell], however he possessed an uncommonly strong mind. He had judgment, wit and an unusual command of language, and being of a cheerful temper, amounting to gaiety, his social qualities were quite attractive. These two parents, who were successful in life, used all opportunities within their reach, for the intellectual as well as the moral and religious training of their children. All persons possessed of attainments were made welcome to their home, and thus at the fireside and the hearth, their rising offspring were given the advantages of oral instruction, administered in a way to make it impressive. They were taught to be attentive listeners, and in the course of conversations, sometimes practical, sometimes speculative, sometimes spiced with wit or seasoned with humor, and sometimes mellowed with sentiment, or chastened with the grave and more awe-inspiring truths of religion and its obligations, they caught much that no vicissitude in after life could deprive them of. When no company was in the house, or when the company was such as permitted its being done, the invariable habit of each evening was for some one of the family to read some instructive or entertaining book, while the rest listened, and to intersperse the exercise with pertinent inquirers and replies for the better understanding of the author."
[REMINISCENCES OF NEWBERRY,John B. Carwile,pp 176&177]
Born probably in Londonderry, Ireland, son of David and Sarah Meek Johnston Jr. Married three times; first, Mary Caldwell in Londonderry, Ireland on July 2, 1785, second, Mrs. Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry; third, Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch. He died in Boligee, Greene Co., AL in 1843.
With his mother, three brothers, wife, and baby daughter he arrived in Charleston, S.C. September 4, 1787. He first lived in Fairfield Co. then moved to Chester and in the year 1806 moved to Newberry District. While in Newberry, he began business as a merchant. By the year 1814, he sold his store to his son-in-law Kerr Boyce and his son Samuel.
His first wife, Mary Caldwell died in 1831 and is buried at Mt. Olivet (Wateree) Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Fairfield Co. S.C. She was the daughter of Job Caldwell.
After her death he married the widow of John Lowry, Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry. Margaret died on August 31, 1835. Three days earlier, on her way to York, they dismissed their private carriage in Chester and took a public stage. The horses took fright and she was thrown from the stage.
His third wife was Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch.
With Jane and other members of his family, he moved to Greene Co., AL in 1840. He along with other family members settled in Boligee. He is buried in Bethsalem C. Yard, Boligee, AL very near his step-daughter Mary McCulloch Judge."
"John Johnstone, the father of the Chancellor, was one of nine sons of David Johnstone, and Sarah Meek, his wife. The family was honest and respectable, and of the class of small farmers. Though originally Scotch, they had been settled in Ireland as early as the contest [the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688] between William of Orange and his father-in-law James II. Being Presbyterians, they took sides with William, and a sword is still in the family, in this country, which was worn by Thomas Boyd, the maternal grandfather of David Johnstone at the siege of Londonderry.
[John Johnstone was not educated as well as his wife, Mary Caldwell], however he possessed an uncommonly strong mind. He had judgment, wit and an unusual command of language, and being of a cheerful temper, amounting to gaiety, his social qualities were quite attractive. These two parents, who were successful in life, used all opportunities within their reach, for the intellectual as well as the moral and religious training of their children. All persons possessed of attainments were made welcome to their home, and thus at the fireside and the hearth, their rising offspring were given the advantages of oral instruction, administered in a way to make it impressive. They were taught to be attentive listeners, and in the course of conversations, sometimes practical, sometimes speculative, sometimes spiced with wit or seasoned with humor, and sometimes mellowed with sentiment, or chastened with the grave and more awe-inspiring truths of religion and its obligations, they caught much that no vicissitude in after life could deprive them of. When no company was in the house, or when the company was such as permitted its being done, the invariable habit of each evening was for some one of the family to read some instructive or entertaining book, while the rest listened, and to intersperse the exercise with pertinent inquirers and replies for the better understanding of the author."
[REMINISCENCES OF NEWBERRY,John B. Carwile,pp 176&177]
With his mother, three brothers, wife, and baby daughter he arrived in Charleston, S.C. September 4, 1787. He first lived in Fairfield Co. then moved to Chester and in the year 1806 moved to Newberry District. While in Newberry, he began business as a merchant. By the year 1814, he sold his store to his son-in-law Kerr Boyce and his son Samuel.
His first wife, Mary Caldwell died in 1831 and is buried at Mt. Olivet (Wateree) Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Fairfield Co. S.C. She was the daughter of Job Caldwell.
After her death he married the widow of John Lowry, Margaret ( ) Rainey Lowry. Margaret died on August 31, 1835. Three days earlier, on her way to York, they dismissed their private carriage in Chester and took a public stage. The horses took fright and she was thrown from the stage.
His third wife was Mrs. Jane H. McCulloch.
With Jane and other members of his family, he moved to Greene Co., AL in 1840. He along with other family members settled in Boligee. He is buried in Bethsalem C. Yard, Boligee, AL very near his step-daughter Mary McCulloch Judge."
"John Johnstone, the father of the Chancellor, was one of nine sons of David Johnstone, and Sarah Meek, his wife. The family was honest and respectable, and of the class of small farmers. Though originally Scotch, they had been settled in Ireland as early as the contest [the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688] between William of Orange and his father-in-law James II. Being Presbyterians, they took sides with William, and a sword is still in the family, in this country, which was worn by Thomas Boyd, the maternal grandfather of David Johnstone at the siege of Londonderry.
[John Johnstone was not educated as well as his wife, Mary Caldwell], however he possessed an uncommonly strong mind. He had judgment, wit and an unusual command of language, and being of a cheerful temper, amounting to gaiety, his social qualities were quite attractive. These two parents, who were successful in life, used all opportunities within their reach, for the intellectual as well as the moral and religious training of their children. All persons possessed of attainments were made welcome to their home, and thus at the fireside and the hearth, their rising offspring were given the advantages of oral instruction, administered in a way to make it impressive. They were taught to be attentive listeners, and in the course of conversations, sometimes practical, sometimes speculative, sometimes spiced with wit or seasoned with humor, and sometimes mellowed with sentiment, or chastened with the grave and more awe-inspiring truths of religion and its obligations, they caught much that no vicissitude in after life could deprive them of. When no company was in the house, or when the company was such as permitted its being done, the invariable habit of each evening was for some one of the family to read some instructive or entertaining book, while the rest listened, and to intersperse the exercise with pertinent inquirers and replies for the better understanding of the author."
[REMINISCENCES OF NEWBERRY,John B. Carwile,pp 176&177]
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