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Mrs. Mary J. Johnston is the widow of William T. Johnston, and a daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Burnett) Sellers. She was born in Memphis, Tenn., September 18, 1851, and on April 4, 1870, was married to Thomas L. Pleasants, of Indiana, who was born November 30, 1841, and to their union a family of two children was born: Walter T. and Mattie L. (wife of Edward J. Graves); this daughter was born on March 20, 1872, and was married on November 1, 1887, being now the mother of a little daughter named Ethel L. Thomas L. Pleasants was a merchant of Luna, Chicot County, Ark., and died on June 29, 1874, his widow marrying William T. Johnston, on June 14, 1878. The latter was born in Butler County, of the Blue-Grass State, May 20, 1851, and he and wife became the parents of a daughter, Jennie Eudora, who was born in Memphis, Tenn., November 2, 1882. Mr. Johnston, in addition to following the occupation of merchandising at Laconia, was engaged in conducting a plantation, and for several years kept books for his father-in-law at that place. He was a man possessing many worthy traits of character, and his death, which occurred on September 7, 1889, was not only lamented by his immediate family, but by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Johnston’s father and mother were born in Ohio and Kentucky, September 11, 1820, and January 24, 1830 respectively, their union taking place at Memphis, Tenn., in 1848. The mother passed from this life October 27, 1888, and was, as was her husband, who died August 2, 1883, an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A family of four children was born to them of whom Mary J. (Mrs. Johnston), and Josephine (the wife of Charles Warfield, a planter and ginner of Laconia), are the only ones living.