An American Family History

William Wallace Johnson and Katherine Cliff Barnes married about 1852 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

William Wallace Johnson was an engineer/machinist and was born in March 1830 in Kentucky.

Katherine Cliff Barnes was born in 1838 in Tennessee.

They had at least seven children who were born in Fort Smith: Mary Johnson (1853), Eliza Johnson (1860), Francis M. Johnson (1866),  William Greenwood Johnson (1869), Nellie Johnson Powers Robinson (1878), June Johnson Van Dusen (1883), Ira Malin Johnson (1885).

Nellie Johnson (Nan) Powers Robinson married James Powers (July 1844) and they had at least 5 children: William Powers (1888), Laura Powers (1897), Ezra Powers (1899), Katherine Powers Snow (1902), and Irene Powers Pettigrew (1905). She married Charles T. Robinsons and they had a son Charles Robinson (1916).

June Johnson married Miles Van Dusen. June was born in June, 1883 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Ira Malin Johnson was born April 23, 1885. He married Verna Ivy Miller (Kate). Ira and Kate divorced before 1930. After they divorced, Ira married twice more to Luella Hepner and Thelma Fish.