Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
and Savannah River, beginning at a white oak on said Johns' line. This is evidently the land that adjoined the plantation which he bought from Buckhalter nine years before.
Robert Johns bought from William Merritt, of Orangeburg Dist. more land on Little Stevens Creek, April 24, 1818. He also owned other land, for on Dec. 29, 1829, he deeded to Wm. G. Abney, 135 acres on Tarpin Creek, a branch of Big Saluda River, Edgefield Dist, situated near and along the road from Cambridge, to Saluda Old Town, adjoining lands of Abney. (Bk 44 p 148, Edgefield)
On Nov. 28, 1835, Robert Johns sold to Jonathan Weaver, part of two tracts of land which had been granted to Hugh Rose and Josiah Stevens, in Edgefield Dist, on Little Stevens Creek, a branch of Turkey Creek, of Big Stevens Creek, waters of Savannah River, adjoining land of Weaver, John Lowery, Smiley and land belonging to the estate of Matthew Stevens. (Bk 47 p 368 Edgefield)
As a young man with four children, Robert Johns, served in the War of 1812. Records in the Third Auditor's Office, Treasury Department, Washington D. C. show that he enlisted at Vetita Springs, in Edgefield Dist. He was a private in South Carolina Troops, under Capt. Brian Marsh and Col. Allston. He was discharged 3/17/1815. In 1855, as a resident of Chambers Co. Ala, age 71, he applied for land under the Act, of Mar. 3, 1855, and was granted 120 acres of "Bounty Land" on account of his services. (Bl Wt #26 387-120). He had previously been granted 40 acres, under the Act. of Sept. 28, 1850. (Wt 61 173 40) These were added to his vast acreage which he had already accumulated.
Frances (Clark) Johns, died in 1836, less than a year after reaching the new home in Alabama. She was buried about three hundred yards from the residence and was probably the first person buried in the family cemetery.
About 1838, Robert Johns, married a Miss Bledsoe, native of S. C. who lived a few years. She is listed in the 1840 Census.
Robert Johns was married the third time on Jan. 29, 1846. He applied for a license and made bond in the sum of $500.00 to marry Mrs. Sarah (Connolly) Buckalew, b. 11/19/1799, Edgefield, S. C. d. 12/30/1873, Cusseta, Ala. (Mar. Bk 3, p. 267) Mrs. Buckalew was the mother of several children, two of whom, apparently the youngest, were listed in the 1850 Census as members of the Johns household. They were Susanah Buckalew, age 12, born in S. C. and Seaborn, age 10 born in Ala.
Robert Johns had no children, by his second and third wives,
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