Will 31 Mar 1780
Birth place is a probability.
Mar: see father in laws notes
Bir: see father's notes
ON LE DIT DIT AUSSI MARIE A FRANCOISE BOURGEOIS (JACOB + JEANNE TRAHAN) EN
1672 ????
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/elmasoniccem.htm
is the source for death date and burial place.
Killed in a Bar room fight in Abilene.
The following year, Robert Branch Johnson, and his brother, Henry Madison Johnson, who was also Robert E. Stafford's brother-in-law, organized a trail drive of their own to Kansas. The Johnsons had purchased three sizeable herds of cattle in the winter of 1868, when prices were still very low. In early 1870, they added considerably to their herd. A few months later, on June 11, 1870, they and Bob Stafford and two of his brothers, Benjamin Franklin Stafford and John Stafford, gathered about 800 head. Apparently, Bob Johnson, Ben Stafford, and John Stafford went on the drive. So did a young black cowboy named George Glenn, who had been raised by Bob Johnson. When Johnson died in Kansas that autumn, he was quickly buried. After his family heard of the death, they asked that his body be disinterred and returned to Columbus. When everyone else balked at the prospect of bringing the body back down the trail, Glenn volunteered. Setting out alone, sleeping atop Johnson's coffin every night and chasing away the many wild creatures which followed him (and Johnson's body), he made the trip in 42 days.
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53 Colorado County Bond and Mortgage Records, Book F, pp. 318, 324, 341; Book G, pp. 29, 42, 213; Colorado County Probate Records, File No. 634: Robert B. Johnson; John Edward Folts, "A Faithful Negro Servant," in John Marvin Hunter, ed., The Trail Drivers of Texas (Nashville, Tennessee: Cokesbury Press, 1925), pp. 645-646; J. Frank Dobie, "The Old Trail Drivers," The Country Gentleman, vol. 40, no. 7, February 14, 1925; Typewritten affidavit attributed to George Glenn in Johnson Family File, Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus. Henry M. Johnson had married Harriet Barbara Stafford on March 19, 1868 (see Colorado County Marriage Records, Book E, p. 96). It has been assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that the conveyance of some 800 cattle by Henry Johnson and Bob Stafford to Bob Johnson, Ben Stafford, and John Stafford was the formality necessary to allow the last named three to sell the cattle when they got them to Kansas, and that therefore all three went along on the drive. Glenn implies that Johnson's brothers went along. It is not inconceivable that he meant the Staffords, who were Johnson's brother's brothers-in-law. Folts, writing about fifty years later, states that Johnson died in July 1870, however, in January 1871, Henry Johnson, in a document relating to his brother's probate proceedings, stated that he died "in the State of Kansas about the first part of October 1870."
from Consider the Lily footnote#53 http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/footnote/notes%20part%207.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/columbuscitycem.htm
As source for name, marriage, death, and burial