Individual Details

Gussie Gibson "Gip" Johnson

(DECEMBER 12, 1892 - OCTOBER 19, 1959)

Gussie Gibson Johnson's Texas Birth Record shows:
Father: John Eli Johnson, b. Blanco County, Texas
Mother: Mary Frances Coleman, b. Arkansas

Evelyn Johnson Lawrence's Family History mentions that most of the sons of John Ealy and Mary Frances Johnson had nicknames.
Gussie Gibson Johnson was known as "Gip."

Events

BirthDECEMBER 12, 1892Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
MarriageDECEMBER 12, 1911Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas - Minnie Lucille Saunders
MiscellaneousJUNE 5, 1917Draft Registration World War I - Coryell County, Texas
MiscellaneousOCTOBER 1, 1919Land sale - Town Lot, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
Census1920McGregor, McLennan County, Texas
Miscellaneous1922 - 1925Oil Boom - Smackover, Union County, Arkansas
MiscellaneousAPRIL 22, 1924Land Purchase - Tobias Kelly Survey, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
MiscellaneousMAY 28, 1924Affidavit-J.E. and G.G. Johnson Land Ownership - McLennan County, Texas
MiscellaneousJUNE 3, 1924Land Purchase Payment - Tobias Kelley Survey, Coryell County, Texas
MiscellaneousNOVEMBER 16, 1926Land Sale - Bosque County, Texas
Census1930McGregor, McLennan County, Texas
MiscellaneousCA, 1930Depression
DivorceJULY 23, 1937Coryell County, Texas - Minnie Lucille Saunders
MarriageAft 1937Jamie D. (Maiden Name Unknown) Johnson
Census1940Calvert, Robertson County, Texas
MarriageAft 1940Doylie Mae Andrews Johnson
DeathOCTOBER 19, 1959Buffalo Township, Stover, Morgan County, Missouri
MiscellaneousOCTOBER 19, 1959Missouri Death Certificate - Buffalo Township, Stover, Morgan County, Missouri
MiscellaneousAft OCTOBER 19, 1959Find A Grave Memorial - Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
BurialPost Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas

Families

SpouseMinnie Lucille Saunders (1891 - 1948)
ChildMary Doris Johnson (1918 - 1933)
ChildEvelyn Estelle Johnson (1920 - 2009)
ChildHelen Marie Johnson (1925 - 2018)
SpouseDoylie Mae Andrews Johnson (1912 - 1999)
SpouseJamie D. (Maiden Name Unknown) Johnson (1893 - )
FatherJohn Ealy Johnson (1866 - 1931)
MotherMary Frances Coleman (1867 - 1949)
SiblingTresa L. Johnson (1894 - 1896)
SiblingCharlie Coleman Johnson (1898 - 1965)
SiblingErnest Homer "Chock" Johnson (1900 - 1966)
SiblingFrank Winston "Red" Johnson (1902 - 1976)
SiblingJohnnie George "Dooley" Johnson (1905 - 2000)
SiblingHarry Herbert "Bud" Johnson (1907 - 1971)

Notes

Birth

Gussie Gibson Johnson's Missouri Death Certificate shows his birth date as 12-12-1892 in Oglesby, Texas.

Gussie Gibson Johnson's Texas Birth Record shows:
Birth: 12-12-1892 in Oglesby, Texas
Father: John Eli Johnson, b. Blanco County, Texas
Mother: Mary Frances Coleman, b. Arkansas; age 25 at this birth; mother of 1 living child including this record.

Marriage

The marriage record of Gibson Johnson and Minnie Saunders is recorded in the Coryell County, Texas Marriage Records, Marriage Book 8, p. 353.
They were married on 12-12-1912 by Clovis Chappel.

Miscellaneous

Information given on World War I Draft Registration Card:
Gussie Gibson Johnson; 24; lives in Oglesby, Texas; b. 12-12-1892 in Oglesby, Texas; livestock dealer; married; claims exemption to support wife; description: tall, stout build, brown eyes, brown hair.

Miscellaneous

Vol. 83, page 408 Coryell County Deed Records:
On 10-1-1919, in Oglesby, TX, G.G. and Minnie Johnson sold a one acre Oglesby town lot to V.L. Edwards for $1600 (paid by $950 cash, assumption of three notes made by G.G. Johnson to J.W. Castleberry dated 8-25-1916: one for $175 due in 1918, one for $225 due in 1919, and one for $250 due in 1920.
This lot was adjacent to the B.P. Davenport property.

Census

The 1920 McLennan County, Texas, U.S. Federal Census shows:
Gibson Johnson, 27, b. TX, father b. TX, mother b. AR, cattle dealer
Minnie, wife, 27, b. TX, father b. TX, mother b. TX
Dorris, daughter, 1yr. and 3 mos., b. TX

Miscellaneous

Between about 1922 and 1925 Gussie Gibson Johnson, accompanied by his wife Minnie, lived and worked in Smackover, Union County, Arkansas, during the oil boom in that county.
G.G. Johnson worked for his great-uncle, William A. "Uncle Billy" McKenzie as a supervisor for Uncle Billy's oil interests.

Miscellaneous

Vol. 48, page 41 Coryell County Deed Records:
On 4-22-1924, J.E. and M.F. Johnson sold 105 acres of the Tobias Kelley Survey to G.G. Johnson for $13,125 to be paid by $3725 cash received, and ten notes the first for $5000 due 5-1-1924, the second for $400 due 1-1-1926, and eight other notes for $500 payable on 1-1 of the following years, all notes at 6% interest.

Miscellaneous

Vol. 102, page 144 Coryell County Deed Records:
On 5-28-1924, G.W. Lee and A.L. Lee gave an affidavit stating: that they have lived near Oglesby, Coryell County since 1883 and since 1883 they have known the 210 acre tract of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey, about 2 or 3 miles south of Oglesby, owned by J.E. Johnson, who has had open possession of the property and maintained a good substantial fence there the entire time; G.G. Johnson now owns 105 acres of this land since 4-22-1924 and he has maintained clear title and a good fence since that time.

Miscellaneous

Vol. 102, page 166-167 Coryell County Deed Records:
On 6-3-1924, J.E. Johnson sold his claim to a lien on 105 acres of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey sold to G.G. and Minnie Johnson. He received $4750 from the Federal Land Bank of Houston as payment on a $5000 note made to that bank by G.G. and Minnie Johnson.
J.E. Johnson retains his claim to the property secured by notes made by G.G. and Minnie Johnson to J.E. Johnson, but his lien is inferior to the bank lien.

Miscellaneous

Vol. 107, page 105 Coryell County Deed Records:
On 11-16-1926, G.G. and Minnie Johnson sold 105 acres of land in the Tobias Kelley Survey to Mrs. M.F. Johnson for $3725 in cash; and Mrs. M.F. Johnson also assumed the balance due on a $5000 note owed to the Federal Land Bank of Houston, as well as nine notes totalling $4400 owed to J.E. and M.F. Johnson from the 4-22-1924 purchase of this property by G.G. and Minnie Johnson from J.E. and M.F. Johnson.

Census

The 1930 McGregor, McLennan County, Texas, U.S. Federal Census shows:
Gibson Johnson, 38, b. TX. father b. TX, mother b. TX, car salesman
Minnie, wife, 38, b. TX, father b. TX, mother b. TX
Doris, daughter, 11, b. TX
Evelyn, daughter, 9, b. TX
Helen M., 4, b. TX

Miscellaneous

Evelyn Johnson Lawrence related this story about her father Gussie Gibson Johnson.

"Daddy would leave the family sometimes for days at a time. He was away to find work, but he also was a gambler. Sometimes he had money to wear monogrammed silk shirts and sometimes he could only afford to wear overalls."

Divorce

The divorce of G. G. Johnson and Minnie Johnson was filed in Coryell County, Texas, on 7-23-1937.

G. G. Johnson was to pay child support of $10.00 per month until his daughter Helen Johnson reached the age of 16.

Custody of their two living children, Evelyn and Helen Johnson was given to Minnie Johnson.

Marriage

The 1940 Calvert, Robertson County, Texas, U.S. Federal Census shows:
Guss G. Johnson and wife Jamie D. Johnson.

Helen Johnson Huckins, daughter of Gussie Gibson Johnson remembers his second wife known as "Jim" when she and her father lived in Waco.

Census

The 1940 Calvert, Robertson County, Texas, U.S. Federal Census shows:
Guss G. Johnson, 49, b. TX, lived in Waco, McLennan Co., Texas in 1935, café manager
Jamie, wife, 47, b. TX, lived in Waco, McLennan Co., Texas in 1935

Note:
Doylie Mae Andrews worked as a café waitress in Calvert, Robertson County, Texas, per the 1940 census.

Marriage

Doylie Mae Johnson was the informant for Gussie Gibson Johnson's Missouri Death Certificate.

The divorce of G. G. Johnson and his first wife Minnie Saunders Johnson was filed on 7-23-1937.

Gus G. Johnson was married to Jamie D. Johnson in the Calvert, Robertson County, Texas U.S. Federal Census.

Death

Gussie Gibson Johnson's Missouri Death Certificate shows his death date as 10-19-1959 in Buffalo Township (near Stover), Morgan County, Missouri.

Miscellaneous

Gussie Gibson Johnson's Missouri Death Certificate shows the following:
Birth: 12-12-1892 in Oglesby, Texas
Death: 10-19-1959 in Buffalo Township (20 miles from Stover), Morgan County, Missouri
Father: J. E. Johnson
Mother: Mary Coleman
Married at time of death; occupation- trading livestock
Burial: Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Texas
Informant: Doylie Mae Johnson

Miscellaneous

His Find A Grave Memorial is #34754559.

The memorial has a tombstone photograph showing the dates 12-12-1892 and 10-19-1959.

Endnotes

1. Evelyn Johnson Lawrence, Family History, Recipient: Sherry Lawrence, Author Address: Gatesville, TX, Recipient Address: Gatesville, TX (2002), Family History Compiled by Evelyn Lawrence from personal communications, family bibles,etc..

2. Missouri Death Certificte, Copy of Original. Sherry Lawrence's Genealogical Records.

3. Gussie Gibson Johnson, birth certificate (12 December 1892), State of Texas State of Texas, U.S.A., Austin, Travis County, Texas.

4. Evelyn Johnson Lawrence, Family History, Recipient: Sherry Lawrence, Author Address: Gatesville, TX, Recipient Address: Gatesville, TX (2002), Family History Compiled by Evelyn Lawrence from personal communications, family bibles,etc..

5. Coryell County, Texas Marriage Records, Gatesville, Texas..

6. World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918, Record Type: electronic database, Subject: World War I Draft Registration, Url: www.ancestry.com, File Name: World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.

7. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).

8. 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Record Type: microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..

9. "Conversation with Helen Johnson Huckins," 2015 by Sherry Lawrence, Telephone Conversation; Minnie Lucille Saunders Johnson told this story to her daughter Helen Johnson Huckins..

10. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).

11. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).

12. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).

13. Coryell County, Texas, Deed Records (Coryell County, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, 1854-present).

14. 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Record Type: microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..

15. "Conversation with Evelyn Estelle (Johnson) Lawrence," 24 December 2003 by Sherry Lawrence, Written notes; Evelyn Johnson Lawrence experienced the related stories in person..

16. Coryell County, Texas, Divorce Records. Copy of Original. Sherry Lawrence's Genealogy Records..

17. "Conversation with Helen Johnson Huckins," August 2015 by Sherry Lawrence, Telephone; Helen Johnson Huckins has personal knowledge of marriage of Jamie D. Johnson and Gussie Gibson Johnson.

18. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..

19. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..

20. Missouri Death Certificte, Copy of Original. Sherry Lawrence's Genealogical Records.

21. 1940 U.S. Federal Census, microfilm image, Ancestry.com Website, www.ancestry.com..

22. Evelyn Johnson Lawrence, Family History, Recipient: Sherry Lawrence, Author Address: Gatesville, TX, Recipient Address: Gatesville, TX (2002), Family History Compiled by Evelyn Lawrence from personal communications, family bibles,etc..

23. Missouri Death Certificte, Copy of Original. Sherry Lawrence's Genealogical Records.

24. Missouri Death Certificte, Copy of Original. Sherry Lawrence's Genealogical Records.

25. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.

26. Cemetery Marker, Record Type: Personal Observation, Reader: Sherry Lawrence (2000), Cemetery marker has the following inscription: " At Rest, G.G. Johnson, Dec. 12,1892, Oct. 19,1959. He is buried next to his daughter, Mary Doris Johnson..

27. Find A Grave Web Site, Url: www.findagrave.com.