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M William Johnson

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Information from Beverley Robitaille, Bastien Family Tree, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

1881 personal census, Chatham Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Johnson Wm., M, Married, 46, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist, Farmer;
Mary J., F, Married, 45, born Ont, origin: Scottish, C. Methodist;
Jessa H., F, 17, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist;
Wm. A., M, 14, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist;
John H., M, 12, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist;
Raymond, M, 7, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist;
Blakely Fred, M, 21, born Ont, origin: English, C. Methodist, School Teacher.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Kent, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 259-260:
William Johnson, at the time of his death a general farmer and highly respected citizen of the Gore of Chatham, County of Kent, residing on his farm of fifty acres in Concession 3, facing Concession 4, north half of Lot 2, was born June 11, 1834, in the Gore of Chatham, on Concession 1, Lot 4. He was a son of Lionel and Elizabeth (Little) Johnson, the former a native of Northumberland, England, a son of Lionel and Isabella (Cleghorn) Johnson, who came to the United States in 1804 and settled in New York. There Lionel Johnson, Sr., was found by an old acquaintance, Lork Selkirk, who engaged him to bring his flock of sheep from New York to the County of Kent. Continuing in the employ of Lork Selkirk, he was granted land by him, and he died in 1823, after establishing his family in Ontario.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Little) Johnson was a native of the County of Essex, Ont., born Feb. 13, 1800. Her marriage to Lionel Johnson was celebrated at Algonac, Michigan, in 1820. From 1837 to 1849 Mr. Johnson was a merchant at Wallaceburg, and there he died Aug. 14, 1849, aged fifty years. Prior to moving to Wallaceburg he operated a general store in the Gore of Chatham, his removal to Wallaceburg taking place on account of the disturbances of the Rebellion of 1837. He was a man of prominence, serving as township councillor for a number of years, and was a leading and respected citizen. Mrs. Johnson died in March, 1880. Her remains, as well as those of her husband, were removed from the private burying ground on the old farm to the cemetery at Wallaceburg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were consistent members of the Methodist Church. They were parents of the following children: James, a farmer of Chatham Gore, who died April 20, 1904; Lionel, a farmer of the same; Matthew, living retired at Wallaceburg; Robert, who died unmarried, aged thirty-nine years; Lovina, who died unmarried, aged thirty-one years; John, of Algonac, Michigan; Adeline, wife of John Stewart, a retired farmer of Algonac, Michigan; and William.
On Nov. 25, 1858, at Amherstburg, William Johnson was united in marriage with Mary J. Mickle, and these children were born to this union: Sarah W. married Clarence Johnson, a mason of Wallaceburg; Jessie is the wife of Edward Brown, a travelling agent at Buffalo, N.Y.; Albert is at home; James Hilliard, a farmer of County Lambton, married Alice Turner; and Raymond, a farmer of County Lambton, married Anna Bowles. The mother of these children died Nov. 4, 1884, aged forty-nine years, and was interred at Wallaceburg. She was a daughter of William and Sarah (Brush) Mickle, native of Vermont, who settled as farmers in County Essex. In November, 1887, Mr. Johnson was married (second) at Wallaceburg, to Catherine Shaw, who was born in November, 1839, at Peterboro, Ont., daughter of William and Ellen (Ager) Shaw, of England and Ireland, respectively. They came to County Kent in 1841, and located in Howard township where they purchased a farm. There the father died Dec. 12, 1891, aged seventy-seven years, and the mother died Sept. 29, 1882, aged seventy-five years. They were members of the Church of England. The children born to them were: Charles, a farmer of Howard township; Mary A., wife of Alexander Sample, of Chatham township; Esther W., wife of Daniel Watt, of Ridgetown, Ont.; William, of Detroit, Michigan; and Catherine, Mrs. Johnson. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Johnson were Charles and Elizabeth Shaw, early agricultural settlers in Howard township.
William Johnson was fifteen years of age when his father died, and until he purchased a farm for himself in Chatham township, at the age of nineteen, he worked for the various farmers in the locality. He remained on his farm near Wallaceburg until 1900, when he removed to town for one year, and in April, 1901, he came to his late home, where he died June 8, 1903. His remains were consigned to the grave on the 10th, just one day before the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birth. Mr. Johnson was a first-class practical farmer and most excellent business man. Politically he was a member of the Reform party; fraternally he belonged to the I.O.O.F., and in religious belief he was a Methodist. He stood high in public esteem, and was regarded as one of the upright, reliable and public-spirited men of the neighbourhood.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905, p. 494-495:
Charles Mickle, who is one of the prominent citizens of Malden township, County of Essex, a member of the municipal council and a prosperous farmer, is a descendant of one of the pioneer settlers of this locality.
William Mickle, the great-grandfather of Charles, was a native of Aryshire, Scotland, ... In Chatham he married Hannah Turner, ... Her husband built a log house in Amherstburg, just opposite the present Echo office, and there he reared his family of children: William, born in 1793; Hannah died unmarried; John; Lucy married Thomas Brush; and James.
William Mickle (2), grandfather of our subject, ... married Sarah Brush, who survived him until 1870, aged sixty-nine years. They had these children born to them: ... Mary, deceased, who married William Johnson, of Chatham; ...