William T Johnson married:
1st married: ca 1843 Anna Cousart Bell and they had 7 children.
2nd married: 16 Dec 1863 Mary Ann [Biggart] Hammond (widow) [15 June 1834, SC--4 November 1896, SC], and they had 2 children.
1870 SC Census - W.T. Johnson 1824, wife Mary 1834; children: Lee 15, George 13, James 10, Anna 11, William 5, Charles infant
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The Lancaster Ledger of 23 Dec 1863 reported that on the previous Wednesday the 16th, Sergeant W. T. Johnston of Captain Foster's Company, Rutledge's Cavalry was married to Mrs Mary Hammond of Kershaw District at the bride's mother's house by James R. Magill Esq. Mary Ann's father, James Biggart [1784--1855] had come from County Down, Ireland, and lived in Kershaw District where his will was filed. A notice of his death appeared in the Ledger on 13 June 1855. Mary's mother was born Susan Fleming, daughter of Alexander Fleming [d 1831] who was a son of James Fleming. After William T. Johnson's death, Mary Ann married two more times: first to Burrell Bradley, then to Samuel Hammond. She is buried at the Beaver Creek Cemetery in Kershaw Co, SC. John W. Twitty looked after the legal interests of her minor Hammond children: Samuel Lee, George Francis, and James Robert.
During the War Between the States, he was referred to as Sergeant W. T. Johnston of Captain Foster's Company, Rutledge's Cavalry when he married in Dec 1863. He later served as a sergeant in Company H, 4th Battalion Volunteer Cavalry, under Captain McIlwain. His signature appears on a receipt for $34.00 which was two months pay; he collected it 1 July 1864, the day he was released from a Confederate hospital in Richmond, VA.
William T Johnson married:
1st married: ca 1843 Anna Cousart Bell and they had 7 children.
2nd married: 16 Dec 1863 Mary Ann [Biggart] Hammond (widow) [15 June 1834, SC--4 November 1896, SC], and they had 2 children.
1870 SC Census - W.T. Johnson 1824, wife Mary 1834; children: Lee 15, George 13, James 10, Anna 11, William 5, Charles infant
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The Lancaster Ledger of 23 Dec 1863 reported that on the previous Wednesday the 16th, Sergeant W. T. Johnston of Captain Foster's Company, Rutledge's Cavalry was married to Mrs Mary Hammond of Kershaw District at the bride's mother's house by James R. Magill Esq. Mary Ann's father, James Biggart [1784--1855] had come from County Down, Ireland, and lived in Kershaw District where his will was filed. A notice of his death appeared in the Ledger on 13 June 1855. Mary's mother was born Susan Fleming, daughter of Alexander Fleming [d 1831] who was a son of James Fleming. After William T. Johnson's death, Mary Ann married two more times: first to Burrell Bradley, then to Samuel Hammond. She is buried at the Beaver Creek Cemetery in Kershaw Co, SC. John W. Twitty looked after the legal interests of her minor Hammond children: Samuel Lee, George Francis, and James Robert.
During the War Between the States, he was referred to as Sergeant W. T. Johnston of Captain Foster's Company, Rutledge's Cavalry when he married in Dec 1863. He later served as a sergeant in Company H, 4th Battalion Volunteer Cavalry, under Captain McIlwain. His signature appears on a receipt for $34.00 which was two months pay; he collected it 1 July 1864, the day he was released from a Confederate hospital in Richmond, VA.
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