"Cemetery Inscriptions of Highland Co., Ohio Compiled by David N. McBride, Page 425
Johnson Cemetery, Paint Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
This cemetery is approximately one-fourths mile from the township road. A schoolhouse, now a dwelling, is in front of the lane leading to this cemetery. The older residents of the community who went to school here relate that they used to play at this cemetery during recess and that many times they would find bones and coffin handles on the ground brought up by ground hogs and foxes from the graves below. The Johnson family owned this land where the cemetery lies, many years before 1850.
On March 30, 1876, in Original Book 50, page 589, Highland County Deed Records, Ephriam Small and Rachel, his wife, conveyed to J. W. Spargur, W. C. Grim and Nicholas Blazer, Trustees of Paint Township, one-half acre "including one fourth acre of land reserved for a burying ground by James L. Morris in his deed to said Ephriam Small dated October 17, A. D. 1864...to be used as a burying ground." Many of the monuments here are broken and some were dug out of the ground. All stones copied.

Revolutionary War Patriot #A063329
Furnished Beef to the Army during the Revolutionary War.
Buried in unmarked grave

DAR Database - Ancestor #A063319
James Johnson
Service: Virginia
Birth: Circa 1735 Virginia
Death: 1/26/1820 Leesburg, Ohio
Service Description: Amelia Co., Virginia - Furnished Beef
Spouse: 1. Milly/Mildred Moorman
Spouse: 2. Penelope Anthony

There has never been proof that James Johnson was married to Rachel Clark Moorman. Place and date of marriage needed.

Note: Previously there was some conflict as to the correct date of death. It is now shown on the DAR website.
See information above.

James (Governor) Johnson (the son of John Jr. and Elizabeth Ellyson) was born in 1737-1742 in Cedar Creek, Hanover Co., Va.

He married Mildred Moorman December 9, 1758. This Mildred Moorman was the daughter of Thomas Moorman and Rachael Clark.
She was born 25 Nov. 1742 in Hanover Co., Virginia.
James Johnson and Mildred Moorman had the following children:
Morman Johnson born 25 Nov. 1760, Hanover Virginia; married Elizabeth Moorman, 25 Oct. 1779, Bedford, Virginia; died 1819, Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio.
Christopher Johnson, born 1761, Bedford, Va., married Milly Moorman, 18 Oct. 1783, Campbell Co., Va., died after 1824, Ohio.
They were moving from Caroline Co., Va., to New Garden, NC, in 1764. He was get New Garden MM, N.C. on 8 Sep 1764 at Cedar Creek Meeting house in Hanover, Va., on 1764, 9,8. Milley get Carolina, New Garden, with her husband. 1764, 9, 8.
James & w, Milly, get New Garden MM, N.C.
Mildred died while on the way to North Carolina in 1764, at the age of 22. He then returned to Bedford.

James Johnson served in the military in 1776. The sons of his first marriage, Moorman & Christopher, were left at the home of their Moorman grandfather & James enlisted in the Revolutionary Army.
He served as a private in the Virginia Continental Line in the Revolutionary War, application for pension may be #S36664.

James was Received on 31 Mar 1813 at Miami Meeting House in Wayne, Warren, Ohio, United States, received on certificate from 1813, 3, 31. James & w,Penelope, & ch., Elizabeth, Sarah, Judith, Mary, Penelope, Agnes & Rachel, received on certificate from Goose Creek MM, Va., dtd. 1812, 9,3.

“History of Ross & Highland Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations and biographical sketches by William Bros. publishers, W. W. Williams, Printer, Cleveland, Ohio 1880 (Reprint: Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, Inc., 1978)
Page 402, Fairfield Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
“Governor” James Johnson came in 1812, from Botetourt (now Bedford) county, Virginia and bought two to three hundred acres around the site of Leesburgh.
By his first wife, who was a Moorman, he had two children, neither of whom, however, were settlers in Fairfield.
By his second wife, Penelope, he reared a large family, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joseph, James, Jesse, Mary, Judith, Penelope (Burgess), Anthony, Agnes, and Rachel (Lupton). Jesse Johnson, who married Mary Burgess, was the father of Elias Johnson, of Leesburg, Michal (Milner), Edna (Cox), and Mary (Grice), all of Fairfield township. Of “Governor” we shall have more to say in another department of this chapter.”

He signed a will on 11 Aug 1823 in Leesburg, Fairfield, Highland, Ohio, United States.
Will - I James Johnson Senn (Senior) of Leesburg Highland County and State of Ohio, Being weak in body but sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth, viz,
To my eldest son Moorman Johnson I give one dollar to him and his heirs forever, having already given him a childs part.
2ly If rights are ever obtained by me or my heirs for the Lands I purchased of Nathaniel Pope and Walter Dun on which Lands I laid out the Town of Leesburg my will and desire is that my son Christopher Johnson have two out Lots in said Town of Leesburg NO38039 to him and his heirs for ever.
3ly I give to my son John Johnson one dollar to him and his heirs forever having done for him as for my two first sons.
4ly I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Johnson and his heirs four hundred dollars, to be raised out of the sale of the Lots in the Town of Leesburg if rights are obtained for the same as above, Provided, he pay his equal expense with my other children in a lawsuit I have now pending and undetermined in the Supreme Court of Highland against Nathaniel Pope and others, and if not his expenses to be taken out of the four hundred dollars.
5ly I give to my other three sons namely James A. Johnson, Jesse Johnson, and Anthony Johnson, one hundred acres of Land cash where on they now live as each ones bounds marked off, it being part of the above purchase that I made of POPE if rights are obtained to them and their heirs forever.
6thly I give to my daughters Rachel Lupton wife of Allen Lupton one in Lot in the Town of Leesburg No to her and her heirs forever.
7thly I give my daughter Penelope Burgess wife of Joseph Burgess one in Lot in said Town No to her and her heirs for ever with the above proviso.
8thly I give to my James A Johnson and my single daughters namely Elizabeth, Sarah, Judith, and Agnes Johnsons, my mill seat on Leesburg adjoining the land of David Lupton, together with fourteen acres and 25 paler of Land, the boundaries of which land are marked to them and their heirs forever.
9thly I lend to my above named single daughters all my tract of Land lying and being North of the North alley of the Town of Leesburg and adjoining said Town including the manjion house and farm where I now live, supposed to be about seventy acres, together with all my personal property that I may not otherwise dispose of.
I say I leave the above property to my above named single daughters, for their support use and accommodations as long as they may live single. As soon as either of them marry I give them one feather bed and furniture one cow and calf and other house hold articles to the amount of one hundred dollars worth. They then relinquish their right and claim to said premises, during the lives of those of my daughters who may live Single, and of the marriage or death of all my single daughters, it is my will that the said land together with the personal property that I lend them be equally divided amongst my existing daughters that have married or may marry or their heirs by said or otherwise provided rights are obtained as above.
10thly And provided no rights can be obtained to the Lands, I give and lend to my Children my will is: That after all of my debts and other expenses are paid that my estate be equally divided amongst my children after making those that I have give nothing to equal with them that I have given all but my three Eldest sons Moorman Christopher and John as I have given them their full part.
11thly If the above suit against Pope and others is not determined in my life time My will is that my Executors hereafter named may prudently and effectually prosecute the same as circumstances may require, and the expenses accruing on the same that I should of had to of paid, to pay out of my estate before any division of said Estate provided no rights are obtained for my lands and if rights are obtained then each one pay their equal proportion of said expenses out of the property I give and lend them or otherwise.
12thly And further if rights are obtained that my Executors be vested with power to sell all the unsold Lots in the Town of Leesburg excepting those that I have given to my children and convey rights to the same also convey rights and ___ to all the Lot that I have sold in said Town and that my Executors be personally compensated for all then troubles.
And lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my son James A Johnson and Samuel Terrell Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all others and former Wills and Testaments herefore by me made in testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 11th of the eighth month in of Lord AD one thousand eight and twenty three.
Witnessed present
JOHN BURGESS
BARRTLEY JUNIOR
BENNETT
(s) JAMES JOHNSON seal