BG Adam Rankin “Stovepipe” Johnson 1834 - 1922 Kentucky - Texas

BG Adam Rankin “Stovepipe” Johnson Famous memorial
BIRTH
8 Feb 1834
Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, USA
DEATH
20 Oct 1922 (aged 88)
Burnet, Burnet County, Texas, USA
BURIAL
Texas State Cemetery
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Show Map
PLOT
Republic Hill Section 1 Row C Number 14
MEMORIAL ID
11000 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 102
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Adam Johnson was born on February 8, 1834, in Henderson, Kentucky. He started working at the age of twelve in a drugstore, leaving his job in 1854 to move to Burnet County, Texas to work as a surveyor. He married Josephine Eastland in January of 1861 and gained a reputation as an expert Indian fighter and stagecoach driver for Butterfield Overland Mail. When the Civil War broke out, he returned to his home state of Kentucky in 1861 and enlisted in Nathan Bedford Forrest's company as a scout; his skill in the military being such that he was given command of the 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers and promoted to colonel by June, 1862. He was well respected for his bravado, once capturing the town of Newburgh, Indiana from a large Union unit with only …

Bio by: Screwtape

Family Members
Parents

Thomas Jefferson Johnson
1801–1866


Juliet Spencer Rankin Johnson
1800–1871

Spouse

Josephine Eastland Johnson
1845–1923 (m. 1861)

Siblings

Bettie S. Johnson Rives
1829–1900


Thomas J. Johnson
1837–1872


William Stapleton Johnson
1840–1911

Children

Elizabeth J Johnson Badger
1866–1963


Robert Eastland Johnson
1868–1938


Juliet Johnson Christian
1870–1952


Adam Rankin Johnson
1872–1951


Fannie Johnson
1874–1883


Lucy Johnson
1877–1878


William Campbell Johnson
1879–1891


Ethel Johnson Guthrie
1882–1969


Mary Rives Johnson Posey
1884–1960