Rev. Angus Johnson

Contributed by Steve Edgerton

 

A letter from Reverend Angus Johnson
to Mrs. Harriet McNeill McKay
of Philadelphus, Robeson County, NC


Avalon, Texas Feb 10th 1897

My dear Cousin Harriet McKay

You are the only McNeill relative I know any thing of. I remember when your Father & Mother ["Wild Archie" McNeill and Elizabeth McNeill McNeill] were courting. I entered my 88th year 26 of last August. It is now near 11 years since I came to Texas. I married my 2nd wife a Miss [Suejette] Thomas. She is in her 58 year. We have no children. My first wife was a Miss Means of Concord N.C. We were married in 1839. We had 8 children 2 died young one son preached 5 years and is burried in Concord N.C. One grown daughter at the head of Tampa Bay Fla 2 children at Water Valley Mississippi and my oldest daughter & wife are burried at Germantown Tenn. I have a married daughter with 5 children in Oxford Mississippi and one in Grand Junction Tenn with 4 children and an unmarried daughter that lives with them. I have one living half sister Mrs Mary McDuffie at Johnson's Station Ga, but have not heard from her in a year. I first learned the tailor's trade then turned to preaching in 1836 preached 2 years near Wilmington N.C. then 7 years near Charlotte, N.C. then 27 years in Mississippi then 10 years in Tenn 4 Fla 11 in Texas = 61. I am now on the invalid list, though my hearing, my sight, my actions are remarkably good for my age We live in our own home a neat cottage, have a horse and buggy and one acre in our lot, I preach every Sabbath I have organized 3 chuches out of this one so we have 4 in the field, they are small. May God abundantly bless you both temporall & spiritually.

I will write to your son in Weatherford [Judge William David Torrey McKay].

Your loving cousin, I hope to meet you in heaven

Angus Johnson

 

Rev. Angus and Suejette Johnson

Rev. Angus and his wife Suejette visited the Duncan & Harriett McNeill McKay family at Philadelphus, NC, a few years later, around 1900-06. This photograph of them was taken on this trip by Archie McKay, Harriett McKay's grandson by her oldest son John Archibald McKay and his wife Rena Burriss McKay.

Rev. Johnson lived and preached in Avalon, Texas for many years in the 19th century.

 


 

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