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Thomas Dawson Johnson
Inscription and Notes:
Age 86 (death date and age per obituary). First name, per RCSG
Some of the 6 wives of Dawson Johnson are buried here but no visible graves, per A/D
Military Service: Confederate States of America
Co. G, 45th GA
Thomas Dawson Johnson
November 2, 1886
Union Recorder
DIED, At his home in this city on Thursday last, Mr. Thos. Johnson, who was not only a very aged man, but with one exception had
probably been a citizen of this place longer than any other of its inhabitants. He was in the 86th year of his age and was noted here
for having been the husband of six wives, his last wife having survived him. He married several of his wives late in life and it seemed
the general impression of our citizens, whenever he lost a wife that he would soon get another, an expectation which he never
disappointed. He was we think a kind husband and seemed to have no trouble in supplying the place of a lost helpmate. No doubt very
nearly all of his friends, who knew him in his prime, had preceded him to his grave, but such of them as remain, remember him as a
jovial, stirring man, fond of a joke, attending with due diligence to whatsoever he had on hand he continued to be able to do so. At the
time of his death he had a number of years been a member in good standing of the Methodist church in the place. His funeral services
and his burial took place in our city cemetery on Friday, last.