When Mary Jane Johnston was born on 12 February 1850, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, her father, Martin Harrison Johnston, was 29 and her mother, Grace M Turnbow, was 30. She married Henry Clay Johnson on 18 July 1869, in Lamar, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 5, Wise, Texas, United States in 1880 and Earl Township, Jefferson, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died in 1916, in Garvin, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 66.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Wise, Texas, United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
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Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
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