George Doherty Johnston
b 30 May 1832, Hillsborough, Orlando Eo. NC
m1) - 25 Feb 1853 Mary Euphradia Poellnitz (1833-1863)
m2 )- 31 Aug 1865 Maria Barnett (1843-1868)
m3 )- 28 Dec 1876 Stella Searcy (widow of Robert Theodore harris )(1842-1916)
d 8 Dec 1910, Tuscaloosa, AL
Education:
Howard College, Marion AL 1849 B.Z. and M.A.
Cumberland University law School, Lebanon, TN, 1854?
Civil War Service:
4th AL 15 Apr 1861, Lt. 1861-62)
25th AL (Col, Lt-Col., Maj., Brig-Gen (1862-1865
Parents:
George Mulholland Johnston, 1800-1834
and Mary Eliza Bond, 1805-1875 (she next married
L. A. Weissinger)
Issue:
m1 - Ida Johnston (1854-1863)
George Burke Johnston (1855-1939)
Charles Poellnitz Johnston (1857-1923)
Henry Milton Johnston (1859-1902)
Euphradia Poellnitz Johnston (1863-1912)
m2 - Maria Barnett Johnston (1864?-1868)
possibly 2 others died as infants
m3 - George Doherty Johnston, II (1878-?)
Served:
Mayor of Marion, Perry Co., AL, 1865
AL State Representative (1857) in AL
Legislature
Commander of Cadets, U. of AL, Tuscaloosa, 1900+
Civil Service Commissioner under Cleveland, 1872-73
Superintendant of the Citadel, Charleston SC, 1885-1890
Al State Senator from Tuscaloosa, 1900
AL Constitutional Convention, 1901
Lawyer, Marion and Tuscaloosa AL (various 1855-1910?)
NOTES - most of above information came from:
Gentle Johnston's and Their Kin - Henry Poellnitz Johnston
and
Alabama, Her History, Resources &etc. W. Brewer, 1872, pp 495-6.
compiler's note - G. D. Johnston was my Great Grandfather's half brother.
also found pp 178, 201, and 223 W. Stuart Harris "Heritage of Perry County", 1991.
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