Johnson Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 2094

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Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, genealogical research, and other materials pertaining to the Johnson, Franklin, and Lightfoot families. Many family members lived in Arkansas throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Notable among the materials is an affidavit from Mary M. Lightfoot and M. L. Royston regarding their experience with an alleged theft of cotton by Union troops during the Civil War.

Dates

circa 1785-1960

Creator

Johnson family (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

Use Restrictions Apply: Several documents are very fragile; access copies are interfiled with some of the more fragile items, and should be used when possible to minimize handling.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

The Johnson family documented within the collection primarily pertains to the relatives and ancestors of Carrie Lee Ewan Johnson; a number of these family members lived in Arkansas' Monroe County and surrounding areas.

Johnson was born September 30, 1866, in Monroe, Lousiana, to Captain Parker C. Ewan and Mary Lightfoot Royston. She married William M. Norton.

Mary Lightfoot Royston was born in 1843 to Richard Cary Royston and Caroline Elizabeth Barrett Lightfoot.

Caroline Elizabeth Barrett Lightfoot was born in 1821 to John Wesley Lightfoot and Ann Margaret Henley Franklin.

Ann Margaret Henley Franklin was the daughter of Captain Joel Franklin and Susannah Lewis.

Susannah Lewis was born in 1770 to Colonel Charles Lewis and Mary Randolph of Albemarle County, Virginia. Lewis served as an officer in the American Revolution, and was one of the signers of Albemarle County's Declaration of Independence.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged topically and by format. Correspondence is arranged by primary correspondent, when identifiable.

Genealogical information within the collection, as well as identification provided by the donor for certain items, was used to tentatively identify correspondents whose full names were not included on individual letters.

Acquisition Information

The Johnson Family Papers were donated to the Special Collections Department by Jeanie Johnson Hill of Lafayette, California, on November 7, 2013.

Separated Materials

A copy of Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (1890) has been separated to the Arkansas Collection, as has Of Sceptred Race (1910) by Annah Robinson Watson.

Processing Information

Processed by Katrina Windon; completed in December 2018. Finding aid was updated in June 2021 to incorporate additional information provided by researcher Bettie Liebzeit.

Finding aid language was updated by Katrina Windon in September 2023 as part of a project to update outdated or harmful description related to slavery or to enslaved persons.