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- Samuel and Sally Travis Johnson natives respectively of Tennessee and Kentucky. The parents were married after coming to this state and made their first home in Cooper County. Later they took up their abode in Jackson County in 1825 and settled upon a farm which is the site of the old Exposition Building in what is now Kansas City. He cleared and improved the property making it his home for thirteen years before such a place as Kansas City was ever dreamed of.
In 1888 Samuel Johnson removed to Andrew County and pre empted the farm now known as the Green farm. He occupied a prominent and influential place among his fellows and such was his popularity that he was often chosen by his neighbors as a referee in trying cases. Seated on a log under the shade of a tree, he held his court and would listen to the pleas of lawyers and from his decision there was no appeal. He was later elected Territorial Judge which position he held until the organization of the county. William B Johnson the son of Samuel Johnson went to California in 1847 and took part in the Indian Wars in the Golden State. He was later murdered in Aurora Cal by Three-fingered Jack and his gang.
Samuel Johnson in 1849 in company with his son Alexander crossed the plains with a pack outfit and entering the mines remained until the following year. Desiring to return home at the expiration of that time he embarked on a steamer bound for Panama and was never heard of again. His good wife who survived him many years died in St Joseph in 1874.
They were the parents of seven children of whom three are still living In his political relations the father was an old line Whig the principles of which party he upheld upon every occasion
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ3-NN1 : 12 April 2016), Samuel Johnson, Washington, Buchanan, Missouri, United States; citing family 283, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: Na...
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- Samuel Johnson was born near Knoxville, Tennessee on July 5, 1797 a son of John Johnson and a grandson of Alexander Johnson. Samuel Johnson in 1818 married Sally Travis born near Lexington, Kentucky on January 19, 1798 the daughter of Frank and Nancy (Shirley) Travis both natives of Kentucky and came to Missouri in 1812. The family along with Samuel?s father moved to Kansas City in 1825 until 1838. Appointed by Gov. L W Boggs as a member of the first Board of County Judges in Buchanan County in 1843; elected presiding judge of the County Court. In the spring of 1848 Samuel sold his farm and moved to St. Joseph and engaged in the livery business until 1849. On the 7th day of May 1849 the St. Joseph Mining Company organized men to travel to the California gold fields; Samuel was one of those men. After spending a few months in the mining regions, on September 23, 1850 he embarked on a sailing vessel with the intention of rounding the Horn. Whoever, he was never seen again. The couple had seven children: Mary married David H Burnett; Nancy married Dr. C B Lykins; Alexander settled in DeKalb County, Missouri; John K in Washington Township, Buchanan County Missouri; William R went to California in 1862 murdered by horse thieves; Melinda married James Maxwell and Cynthia married Weston Craig now in St. Joseph.
Excerpts: A History of Northwest Missouri, Volume 2 edited by Walter Williams
Excerpts: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri
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Ramage Family History
1797 - 1850 (53 years)
