FRANKLIN A. JOHNSON
(Pages 390-393) The primary responsibility of the operation of the family farm fell to Franklin, the eldest son of James M. Johnson and Ann Caughey. Franklin's fifteen-year-old brother John James assisted him. Franklin continued expanding the farm with the addition of more acreage and under his direction the farm became even more productive. Franklin married Susannah "Susan" Deahuff on March 1, 1855. Susan was born in Canaan in 1836 to John Deahuff, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1791, and Catherine Rough, who was born in Ohio in 1805. Susan's brothers and sisters, all born in Ohio, included Abraham, born in 1828; Elizabeth, born in 1831; Rebecca, born in 1833; Catherine, born in 1835; and Mary Ann, born in 1844. Franklin Johnson and Susan Deahuff became parents to Monroe Marion, born
on April 1, 1856; Clarissa "Clara" L, born in August 1857; Mary Ann, born in 1858; and John Elvin, born on August 26, 1873. Franklin constructed a house for his family on the property next door to the family homestead. When their son Monroe became a teenager he went to live with and provide care for his grandmother and aunts in the old family homestead. As James Johnson and Ann Caughey's children Harriet, Ann, Martha, and John James married
and moved away, they sold the land parcels they inherited from their father. The old family farm was reduced in size to about three-eighths of a mile (east and west) by a half mile deep. 
THE GRAVES OF FRANKLIN A. AND SUSAN DEAHUFF JOHNSON
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Mother Ann Caughey Johnson died on February 12, 1884. She is interred with her
husband James in the Jackson Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Ann Caughey directed in her will that the remaining farm property be divided among her children, Franklin, Phebe and Eliza. Her will provided minor bequeaths to her son John James and her married daughters, Hattie, Ann, and Martha. Mother Ann Caughey Johnson's division of the property allowed for the continued operation of the farm by Franklin and his sons, Monroe and John.
On July 20, 1887, Franklin A. Johnson died, leaving his wife Susan Deahuff with their young son, John Elvin, who was thirteen years of age. Franklin was buried with his father and mother in the Jackson Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Franklin and Susan's eldest son Monroe took over the operation of the family farm. Mother Susan continued to live in the family homestead. On September 7, 1893, Susan Deahuff Johnson died. She is buried with her husband,
Franklin, in the Jackson Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Franklin's portion of land from the original farm was equally divided between his sons Monroe and John Elvin. Franklin Johnson and Susan Deahuff's daughters, Mary Ann, born in 1858, and Clarissa "Clara" L, born in August 1857, had a joint wedding on January 1, 1879. Mary Ann married Albert Stratton and Clara married Franklin Sell. This Chapter: | 
