William T. Johnson's Male Relatives

This is one of several groupings of Mamie Smith Johnson's extended family that had lunch with her on Christmas Day 1941. These are her sons, sons-in-law, grandsons, grandsons-in-law, and a nephew-in-law. They are: left to right:

Front row: James R. "Jimsie" Johnson, W. Lloyd Johnson, Sr., R. Rochford Johnson, Sr., Mamie S. Johnson, Hillyer H. Johnson, William T. "Buck" Johnson,Jr.

Second row: Ralph W. Duggan, Malcolm M. "Mac" Sims, Monsey T. Gresham, William R. Reynolds, R. Rochford Johnson, Jr., Charlie Reynolds, W. Lloyd Johnson, Jr., Clifford Calhoun, George E. Linney.

Third row: William E. "Bill" Johnson, H. Harris Johnson, Jr., William T. Johnson, III, Robert C. Norman, Monsey T. Gresham, Jr., W. Johnson Gresham.

The house in the background is the Green-Pignatel House located where Fievet Pharmacy is now.

William T. Johnson's Wedding Picture

This is the only picture I have of my wedding Saturday, November 20, 1954, at Rock United Methodist Church, Rayle, Georgia. The people in the picture are certainly some of my favorites, but I'm the last survivor. Those shown, from left to right, are William Turner Callaway, my father-in-law; Lollie Milligan Callaway, my mother-in-law; William Theophilus Johnson, III, that's me; Louise Milligan Callaway, my bride; Mildred Reeves Johnson, my mother; William Theophilus Johnson, Jr., my father.  

                                  

                                                                               

William T. Johnson's Kindergarten Picture

Here's my kindergarten picture as reproduced for our 50th anniversary reunion of  our 1941 high school class by our class president, Lelia Sims Cheney, 6, who's the tall girl on the left of the back row. Next to her is Osborne McKendree Bounds, 6; and next to him is Sarah Duella Oslin, 6. On the left of the front step is James Hines Blackmon, 5; next to him is my cousin Hillyer Harris Johnson, Jr., 6; next to him is Lucius Combs "Jack" Jackson, Jr., 6; next to him is Elizabeth Adelaide Wood, 5; next to her is my cousin Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 6; and next to her is I, William Theophilus Johnson, III, 5. The picture was taken in either April or May 1930 by our teacher, Elizabeth Sims Smith, the widow of my great-uncle Raymond Rochford Smith, on the front steps of my uncle Hillyer's new house on Water Street. This group stayed together until high school graduation 11 years later.  Four of us are still alive: Lelia, Adelaide, Mary, and I.

                                                                                      

The First William T. Johnson's Family Portrait

Here's a family portrait I'm glad to have, my 54-year-old grandfather William Theophilus Johnson's family Christmas Day , December 25, 1913. 

Day

 From left to right on the front row are his  daughter Christine "Tina" Johnson , 16;  his son-in-law Monsey Thomas Gresham, 35,  his daughter Rhetta Johnson Gresham, 29,  and their daughter Mary; and his  son William Theophilus Johnson, Jr. "Buck", 13 - my father

On the second row, l to r, are his daughter Frances, 9; my grandfather; his wife, Mary Smith Johnson, 53; his father-in-law John Rochford Smith, 76; and his daughter Aileen Johnson Reynolds, 25, with her son William, 3 months.

On the back row, l to r, are his son Raymond Rochford Johnson, 16; his daughter Louise Johnson Norman, 22, with her daughter Claudia, 4 months; his son William Lloyd Johnson, 27, and Lloyd's wife Sara Sims Johnson, 27;  his son Hillyer Harris Johnson, 19; his son-in-law Charles Irwin Reynolds, 32, with Aileen's and his son Charles Irwin Reynolds, Jr., 3.