Jacob Johnson

    Jacob Johnson, a Warrick County pioneer, is a native of New England, his birth occurring May 9, 1803, son of Jacob and Pharibe (Warren) Johnson, who moved to Kentucky with our subject, when he was an infant, and from there removed to this county, when he was fifteen years old. Surrounded by a wild and sparsely settled country, filled with wild animals and game in abundance, our subject attained manhood and from the time of his majority has been doing business in an agricultural way on his own responsibility, now owning a good farm of 150 acres. He ahs become recognized as an honest, unassuming citizen, and now, on the evening of his life, can look backward over a well spent life, in which he has gained many friends and but few enemies.

    He was married in 1824 to Martha, daughter of John Williams, an old pioneer of this county, and eleven sons and three daughters have been born to them. Mr. Johnson ha suffered greatly in the death of his immediate family, having lived to see all laid in their final resting place. His wife died march 20, 1865, having been a true wife, a loving mother and faithful Christian. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Baptist Church, and is making his home with B. F. Owens (see sketch).

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.