Volney Hill Johnson

  General Notes:

The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield
By Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Published by T.P. Nichols, 1895
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Sep 19, 2006
351 pages

Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of John White
By Almira Larkin White
Published by Chase Brothers printers, 1905
Item notes: v. 3
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Feb 5, 2008
"VOLNEY H. Johnson7 (19694), b. in Hancock, N. H., Feb. 1, 1806; m. (1) Feb. 9, 1830, Eda Gould of Greenfield, N. H., who d. Sept. 29, 1853; he m (2) Dec. 20, 1854, Nancy M. Richardson of Washington, N. H. In early life he built a turning mill on Davis Brook, Hancock, "where he manufactured wooden bottles shaped like barrels. They were turned when the timber was green, and then dry heads were put in, the shrinking of the body of the bottles making them tight. After the lapse of more than sixty years some of these bottles are still in existence." He also owned the Bradford mill, and manufactured wheel-barrows and children's toys for a few years; later returned to Greenfield, in 1834 to Antrim, in 1845 to Washington and in 1860 back to Antrim. He resided a few years late in life in the village, but d. at the residence of his son in Washington, D. C., in 1879. Children:
19813. Jesse Orville Johnson,8 -f
19814. Francis R. Johnson,9 +
19815. Alfred Otis Johnson,8 b. in Hancock, June 14,
1837; enlisted in the Union service in 1861 in Arkansas, and is supposed to have been killed at the storming of the Arsenal in Little Rock, Ark.
19816. Julia S. Johnson,8 + [m. George A. Guild] She d. Nov 1931in Nashua
19817. Auldin S. Johnson,8 +
19818. Ira Straw Johnson,8 b June 18, 1844; was killed in
the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
19819. Charles Sherman Johnson,8 b. Dec. 28, 1846; d. Mar.
1, 1864.
19820. James Howe Johnson,8 b. Jan. 17, 1850; d. in infancy.
19821. Waldo M. Johnson,8 b.; d. in infancy.
19822. George Volney Johnson,8 b. Sept. 11, 1856; d Mar. 8,1862.

1850 Washington, Sullivan, NH
Volney Johnson44
Eda Johnson42
Orville Johnson16
Franklin Johnson15
Alfred Johnson13
Julia S Johnson10
Alden Johnson8
Isa Johnson6
Chas Johnson4

1860 Antrim, Hillsborough,NH
Volney Johnson54
Nancy Johnson43
George Johnson3
Nancy J Richardson14

Volney married Eda Gould, daughter of Richard Gould and Sally Russell, on 9 Feb 1830. (Eda Gould was born on 12 Mar 1809 and died on 19 Sep 1853.)