{"id":3234,"date":"2022-01-10T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:31:02","slug":"johnston-rev-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/johnston-rev-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston, Rev. George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rev. George Johnston<\/strong>, one of the old and prominent citizens of Ripley, Tenn.,<br \/>\nand senior member of the firm of George Johnston &amp; Co., furniture dealers, was<br \/>\na son of George and Jane (Thompson) Johnston, both parents being natives of<br \/>\nOrange (now Alamance) County, N. C. The father was born in 1793, the mother<br \/>\nin 1798. They passed their lives quietly on a farm, free from ostentatious<br \/>\ndisplay, and while firm believers in the doctrine of the Presbyterian Church,<br \/>\nthey never attached themselves to any local organization. Four sons and a<br \/>\ndaughter were born to them, three now living. The father died in 1827, and in<br \/>\n1831 the mother married William Russell, by whom she had four children. In<br \/>\n1848 they moved to Arkansas, where she died in 1882. The Johnston family are<br \/>\nof Virginia stock, probably of same origin as Joseph E. Johnston&#8217;s family.<br \/>\nOur subject was born in Orange (now Alamance) County, N. C., March 2, 1821.<br \/>\nHis early life was spent on a farm; at seventeen he commenced to learn the<br \/>\ncabinet-maker&#8217;s trade, and after a two years&#8217; apprenticeship he worked as<br \/>\njourneyman, until he commenced for himself in 1840. The next year he married<br \/>\nElizabeth, daughter of Arthur Lindsley, born in 1819, by whom he had four sons<br \/>\nand three daughters. In 1848 he moved to Hardeman County, Tenn., and the next<br \/>\nyear to Lauderdale County, and worked at his trade, farmed and taught school<br \/>\nuntil 1860, when he was elected county court clerk, and held the office ten<br \/>\nyears. In 1839 he was converted, and united with the Methodist Protestant<br \/>\nChurch. In 1845 he began to preach, and in 1847 was ordained deacon. In 1851<br \/>\nhe was recognized by the Memphis Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church<br \/>\nSouth, held at Paducah, Ky., as worth of the position in that church, and was<br \/>\nordained elder at the annual conference held at Jackson, Tenn., in 1856. In<br \/>\n1878 he opened a furniture store at Ripley, Tenn., and has since done an<br \/>\nactive business. In 1878 his wife died, and the next year he married, in<br \/>\nGibson County, Mrs. Pauline J. Smith, who was born in Rutherford County,<br \/>\nTenn., in 1825, and died in 1884. Both wives were members of the Methodist<br \/>\nChurch South. Mr. Johnston, has been an earnest student of theology nearly<br \/>\nall of his life; his ministerial work has always been a free offering, and he<br \/>\nis the oldest resident minister in the county of any denomination, and whilst<br \/>\nhe is a pronounced Methodist in his religious views, he lives in charity with<br \/>\nall denominations of Christians.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. George Johnston, one of the old and prominent citizens of Ripley, Tenn., and senior member of the firm of George Johnston &amp; Co., furniture dealers, was a son of George and Jane (Thompson) Johnston, both parents being natives of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/johnston-rev-george\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-johnston"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}