Hannah Johnson

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Johnson was born on 4 August 1786, in Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia, United States, her father, John Smallwood Johnson, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Lenneham, was 39. She married James Madison Pemberton on 26 November 1803, in Campbell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Ohio, Virginia, United States in 1850. She died on 23 August 1865, in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 79.

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Family Time Line

James Madison Pemberton
1777–1839
Hannah Johnson
1786–1865
Marriage: 26 November 1803
Louisa Luck Pemberton
1805–1848
Thomas M Pemberton
1807–
Martha Anne Pemberton
1809–1893
Harriet Pemberton
1811–1858
Elvira Pemberton
1813–1892
Julia Faucett Pemberton
1816–1846
Charles Pemberton
1818–1839
Adaline Pemberton
1821–1891
Elizabeth Pemberton
1824–1839
William B. Pemberton
1827–1878
Sarah Pemberton
1830–1857

Sources (5)

  • Hannah Pemberton, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Hannah Johnson, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
  • Ancestry Family Trees

World Events (8)

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1788 · Becomes the 10th state

On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state. 

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Johan, Jo(h)n (see John ) + -son. It was often interchanged with Jenson and Janson . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Norwegian, Danish, or North German Johnsen , Johannesen , Johannsen , Johansen , Jansen , Jantzen , and Jensen , Swedish Johnsson (see below), Johansson , Jonsson , and Jansson , Dutch Janssen , German Janz , Czech Jansa 1, and Slovenian Janša (see Jansa 2) and Janežič (see Janezic ). Johnson (including in the sense 2 below) is the second most frequent surname in the US. It is also the second most common surname among Native Americans and a very common surname among African Americans.

Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Johnsson: patronymic from the personal name John, a variant of Jon (see John ). Compare 1 above.

History: Surname Johnson was brought independently to North America by many different bearers from the 17th and 18th centuries onward. Andrew Johnson (1808–75), 17th president of the US, was born in Raleigh, NC, the younger son of Jacob Johnson and Mary (or Polly) McDonough. Little is known of his ancestors. The 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, dates his American forebears back seven generations to James Johnston (sic) (born c. 1662) who lived at Currowaugh, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight counties, VA. — Noted early bearers also include Marmaduke Johnson (died 1674), a printer who came from England to MA in 1660; Edward Johnson (1598–1672), a colonial chronicler who was baptized at St. George's parish, Canterbury, England, and emigrated to Boston in 1630; and Sir Nathaniel Johnson (c. 1645–1713), a colonial governor of Carolina, who came from County Durham, England.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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