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James C. Johnson, a substantial farmer of Buffalo Island, was born in Newton County, Ga., in 1834, and is a son of John and Sarah (Lacy) Johnson, natives of Georgia. The father followed farming in both Georgia and Mississippi, in the latter of which States he died in 1850, aged fifty years. The mother came to Arkansas in 1880, and died here in 1884. They were members of the Baptist Church. To them were born nine children, eight of whom grew to manhood, and four are still living. James C. Johnson was the fifth child, and was reared, educated and married in Mississippi. He was married in 1856 to Mary Q. McLemore, a native of Tennessee, where she lived until eight years of age, when her parents moved to Mississippi, and there she grew to womanhood. The fruits of this union have been nine children, three of whom are living: Mary Ann (wife of William Lamb), Sarah C. (wife of Ed. Goss), and Charles T. William J. died at sixteen years of age, and James F. at eight years; the others died in infancy. They have also reared an orphan boy, Albert T. Graham, whom they took when four years of age. Mr. Johnson followed farming in Mississippi until 1859, when he started for Arkansas, locating in Poinsett County in 1860, and in 1865 in Craighead County, near where he now resides. He moved to his present location in 1875. He entered the Confederate army in 1862—Twenty-third Arkansas Infantry under Col. Adams. He was in the siege of Port Hudson, and returning home, remained one year, when he reenlisted and served until the close of the war. He then resumed the cultivation of his farm, which though small, is well improved, and his home is comfortable. He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and both he and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mrs. Johnson’s parents were natives of South Carolina and Kentucky, respectively, the former removing when a young man to the “Blue Grass State,” whence, after several years, he went to Tennessee. In 1838 he became located in Mississippi. They were married in Tennessee, and had nine sons and two daughters born to them; one son died at the age of eighteen months, and two others died six hours apart, one in his eighteenth year and another in his sixteenth year. The other children married and reared families. Before their deaths the parents came to Arkansas, the father dying when about ninety years of age, and his wife when seventy. They were members of the Methodist Church.