Levi Jackson

Levi Johnson, a native of New York, was born October 13, 1769. He followed the occupation of a millwright. He married Hannah Russ, who was born December 18, 1770. Her father, Abraham Russ, was murdered by the Indians on the Allegheny river, March 2, 1790. He (Levi Johnson) was the father of five children, three boys and two girls. Henry, the eldest of these, was born January 9, 1793. He learned his father's trade. When he was about seventeen years of age he removed to Kentucky with his parents, enlisted during the war of 1812, but on account of a wound on his arm caused by the slipping of a hand ax, he was rejected. On March 28, 1816, he married Mary, daughter of Amaziah Davidson, born in Kentucky, September 14,1799. Her parents were Scotch who came to America and settled in Kentucky, as companions of Daniel Boone. In 1827, Mr. Johnson with his wife settled in Pike county, Ill., but on account of the troublesome Indians they were compelled to return to Kentucky. In 1830 they braved the dangers of a frontier life and returned to Pike county, where he followed his trade of millwright. Here on September 11, 1846, Mrs. Johnson died in her forty-seventh year. In 1851 Mr. Johnson settled near the place where the village of Sparland, Marshall county, now stands. In 1865 he came to Stark county, where he died September 17,1878, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.