Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS¹ JOHNSON was born 1836 in Ireland. He married ISABELLA UNKNOWN. She was born in Ireland.

Notes for THOMAS JOHNSON:

Thomas Johnson, with son James and daughter Elizabeth (wife uncertain) came to the US from Ireland in about 1866.

1870 Federal Census: Thomas Johnson and family are in Bellaire, Ohio. Thomas' age is listed as 45 in this census; the 1880 census lists his age as 44. His occupation is laborer. Twelve year old James is working in the nail factory.

1880 Federal Census Census Place: Bellaire, Belmont, Ohio (Guernsey Street)

Source: FHL Film 1254995 National Archives Film T9-0995 Page 306C

Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace

Thos. JOHNSON Self M M W 44 IRE

Occ: Brick Layer Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Isabella JOHNSON Wife F M W 34 IRE

Occ: Keeps House Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

James JOHNSON Son M S W 21 IRE

Occ: Nail Feeder Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Mary JOHNSON Dau F S W 14 OH

Occ: At School Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Hattie JOHNSON Dau F S W 12 PA

Occ: At School Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Tilly JOHNSON Dau F S W 10 OH

Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Lily JOHNSON Dau F S W 6 OH

Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Dora JOHNSON Dau F S W 3 OH

Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Thos. JOHNSON Son M S W 3M OH

Fa: IRE Mo: IRE

Marriage Notes for THOMAS JOHNSON and ISABELLA UNKNOWN:

If Isabella's age is correct in the 1870 census, she was the 2nd wife of Thomas, and at least James and Elizabeth, possibly Mary, were not her children, but the children of the 1st wife.

Children of THOMAS JOHNSON and ISABELLA UNKNOWN are:

2. i. JAMES S.² JOHNSON, b. September 1859, Ireland.

ii. ELIZABETH JOHNSON, b. 1864, Ireland.

3. iii. MARY JANE JOHNSON, b. August 1867, Marietta, Ohio.

iv. HATTIE JOHNSON, b. 1868, Pennsylvania.

v. TILLY JOHNSON, b. 1870.

vi. LILY JOHNSON, b. 1874.

vii. DORA JOHNSON, b. 1877.

viii. THOMAS JOHNSON, b. 1880.

 

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES S.² JOHNSON (THOMAS¹) was born September 1859 in Ireland. He married DAISY SMITH November 03, 1892 in Belmont County, Ohio, daughter of GEORGE SMITH and NANCY LEPLEY. She was born June 1873 in Ohio.

Notes for JAMES S. JOHNSON:

1900 Federal Census: James S. Johnson states he came to US in 1861. His occupation is Police Marshall. He is a naturalized citizen. He is living on Guernsey St. in Bellaire, Ohio.

1910 Federal Census:

James S Johnson

Age: 50 State: OH

Color: W Enumeration District: 0034

Birth Place: IRE Visit: 0217

County: Belmont, Bellaire

Relation: Head of Household

Other Residents:

Wife Daisy 37 Ohio

Daughter Margaret 16 Ohio

Daughter Nancy E 12 Ohio

Daughter Flora 10 Ohio

Son Robert 04 Ohio

Children of JAMES JOHNSON and DAISY SMITH are:

i. MARGARET³ JOHNSON, b. August 1894.

ii. NANCY ELIZABETH JOHNSON, b. September 1897.

iii. FLORA JOHNSON, b. July 1899.

iv. ROBERT JOHNSON, b. 1906.

 

3. MARY JANE² JOHNSON (THOMAS¹) was born August 1867 in Marietta, Ohio. She married (1) HERBERT L. PHILLIPS July 03, 1884 in Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. He was born in England, and died April 01, 1901. She married (2) SAMUEL B. LEHMAN October 12, 1905 in Most Holy Sacrament Church, Greensburg, PA, son of PETER LEHMAN and MARY MOSER. He was born February 09, 1838 in Harrison Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and died Abt. 1909 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She married (3) EDWIN GEORGE Abt. 1925. He was born 1868 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for MARY JANE JOHNSON:

Both my father, Gilbert Freilino, and my Aunt Florence Freilino remember going to visit Sam Lehman's mother at her farm in the New Alexandria, PA area. Both remember her as being an extremely nice woman. I remember my Aunt Clem speaking well of her mother-in-law also. My impression is that her first husband, Sam's father, died when Sam was young. She remarried and lived on the farm that various family members remember visiting. My father feels that she may have been widowed and remarried again. He thinks the man's last name was George.

From the 1910 Census, South Greensburg, , Westmoreland County:

Pennsylvania 1910 Census Miracode Index

Forrest C Sunderland

Age: 32 State: PA

Color: W Enumeration District: 0198

Birth Place: Pennsylvania Visit: 0004

County: Westmoreland

Relation: Head of Household

Other Residents: Wife Jennie B 24, Pennsylvania

Daughter Mary E NR, Pennsylvania

Son Samuel B Lehman 03, Pennsylvania

Son James H Phillips 23, Ohio

Daughter-in-law Arta 22, Pennsylvania

Grandchild Doratha M NR, Pennsylvania

Son Herbert L Phillips 22, West Virginia

Daughter-in-law Bertha M 21, Pennsylvania

Mary J Lehman

Age: 23

Relation: Houseworker

Other Residents: Head of Household Forrest C Sunderland

FROM THE ORIGINAL: Forrest Sunderland is listed as head, then his wife and child. Next, listed at same dwelling on Jefferson St. is Mary J. Lehman, listed as head, with her family. Mary is a widow, born in Ohio, parents born in Ireland. She has had 4 children, 3 of which are living. Her age is listed as 42.

As occupation, she lists "None". Son Samuel, 3, is born is PA, father born in PA, mother born in Ohio. James and Herbert are employed by the railroad; James as "call-man", Herbert as machinist. Both list their father as having been born in England.

From the 1920 Pennsylvania Census, Westmoreland County, Loyalhanna Township:

Edwin G. George, Age 52, Farmer, owns farm, Divorced

Mary Jane Laymen, Age 50, Housekeeper, Widowed, born in PA, Parents born in PA

(Samuel Lehman is not listed as a resident)

From the 1930 Census, Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, PA: Edward(Edwin?) George and Mary Jane are now married and living together on the farm. Again, there is no mention of Samuel Lehman. {At this time, Sam's brother James was probably deceased and Herbert would have been living out of state with his family.}

Notes for HERBERT L. PHILLIPS:

From a phone call with Herb Phillips, 8/10/02: Herb believes that his grandfather was a minister and that his great-grandfather was a glassblower.

Marriage Notes for MARY JOHNSON and HERBERT PHILLIPS:

Marriage information is from the Belmont County Courthouse, Ohio. Mary is noted to be seventeen years old and license states that there is a consent from her father on file.

Notes for SAMUEL B. LEHMAN:

1870 Census for Londonderry Township, Bedford County, PA: Samuel's occupation is Laborer. He is living with wife Mary, and daughters Anna S. and Loretta.

1880 Census for Hyndman, Londonderry Township, Bedford County, PA: Samuel's occupation is Justice of the Peace.

In the 1900 Census, the family is living on Washington St., South Greensburg, PA. Samuel runs a hotel. Josephine and Rosalia are living at home. Samuel and Mary have had 11 children, 4 of which are still living.

Children of MARY JOHNSON and HERBERT PHILLIPS are:

4. i. JAMES H.³ PHILLIPS, b. 1887, Ohio.

5. ii. HERBERT LEWIS PHILLIPS, b. October 17, 1888, West Virginia; d. July 09, 1959, Los Angeles, California.

iii. ARTHUR? PHILLIPS, b. Abt. 1890.

Notes for ARTHUR? PHILLIPS:

From a phone call with Herb Phillips, 8/10/02: Herb said that his father, Herbert, was playing with a gun, shooting it into the fireplace, when he accidentally shot and killed Arthur. (Census information for Mary Jane Johnson Phillips Lehman (1910) indicates that she had given birth to 4 children, 3 of which were living.

Child of MARY JOHNSON and SAMUEL LEHMAN is:

6. iv. SAMUEL BRYAN³ LEHMAN, b. December 07, 1906, Monessen, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania; d. June 05, 1942, Wichita, Kansas.

 

Generation No. 3

4. JAMES H.³ PHILLIPS (MARY JANE² JOHNSON, THOMAS¹) was born 1887 in Ohio. He married ARTA 1908. She was born 1888 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for JAMES H. PHILLIPS:

From a phone call with Herb Phillips, 8/10/02: Jim Phillips died as the result of a railroad accident. In 1910, James Phillips was employed as a call man for the railroad, so the accident was probably work related and probably before 1920.

Child of JAMES PHILLIPS and ARTA is:

i. DORATHA⁴ PHILLIPS, b. 1909.

 

5. HERBERT LEWIS³ PHILLIPS (MARY JANE² JOHNSON, THOMAS¹) was born October 17, 1888 in West Virginia, and died July 09, 1959 in Los Angeles, California. He married BERTHA SHUFF 1910, daughter of ASA SHUFF and JOSEPHINE DOUGHERTY. She was born 1889 in Pennsylvania, and died Abt. 1945 in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for HERBERT LEWIS PHILLIPS:

From a phone call with Herb Phillips (son of Herbert), 8/10/02: Herbert Phillips and family moved around the county quite a lot - going where the work was. Herb was born in 1926 in Dawson, New Mexico; the family moved to Florida abt. 1928, then to Long Beach California, where Herbert worked for Vega Aircraft. One of Herbert's sisters who was married to a Sid Appleby, lived there and Herbert and family stayed with them initially. (Herb also mentioned that on the trip from Florida, they were going to visit in PA first and had a terrible car accident that made necessary a stay in Maryland.)

While working at Vega, Herbert had so impressed his boss that when the boss transferred to Beech Corp. in Wichita, he asked Herbert to move with him. So Herbert went to Wichita and worked as the night shift supervisor at Beech.

Children of HERBERT PHILLIPS and BERTHA SHUFF are:

i. MARY JANE⁴ PHILLIPS, m. UNKNOWN WHITSON.

ii. VIVIAN PHILLIPS, b. 1916; m. UNKNOWN REDBURN.

Notes for VIVIAN PHILLIPS:

I spoke with Vivian Redburn on the phone on 8/11/2002. She remembers her childhood moves as the following: She was born in Greensburg. The family moved to Denver, Colorado when she was about 1 year old. They stayed in Denver for about 5 or 6 years (until about 1925). They then moved to Dawson, New Mexico. The next move was to Gainesville, Florida for a short while and then to Maryland for 3 or 4 years. In 1931 they moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where they stayed for several years, then to California and then to Wichita. By the time of the move to Wichita, all the girls were married and only her brother Herb went on to Wichita with his parents. Herbert, her father, died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 72. Bertha, her mother, died while on a visit to Mary Jane George at the farm in Westmoreland County, PA in 1945.

7. iii. HERBERT L. PHILLIPS, b. January 24, 1926, Dawson, New Mexico.

8. iv. MARION PHILLIPS, b. 1918, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

v. HELEN PHILLIPS.

vi. MARY LOU PHILLIPS.

 

6. SAMUEL BRYAN³ LEHMAN (MARY JANE² JOHNSON, THOMAS¹) was born December 07, 1906 in Monessen, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, and died June 05, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas. He married CLEMENTINA FREILINO, daughter of SECONDO FREILINO and ANGELA BARISONE. She was born February 25, 1912, and died 1991 in North Carolina.

More About SAMUEL BRYAN LEHMAN:

Burial: Wichita, Kansas

Children of SAMUEL LEHMAN and CLEMENTINA FREILINO are:  Two children

Generation No. 4

7. HERBERT L.⁴ PHILLIPS (HERBERT LEWIS³, MARY JANE² JOHNSON, THOMAS¹) was born January 24, 1926 in Dawson, New Mexico. He married CECIL MARIE MCCULLOUGH August 1944 in Wichita, Sedgewick County, Kansas, daughter of WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH and VIOLET BROWN. She was born May 20, 1925 in Wichita, Sedgewick County, Kansas, and died May 24, 2001 in Great Bend, Kansas.

Notes for CECIL MARIE MCCULLOUGH:

From the "Great Bend Tribune":

Cecil M. 'Reedie' Phillips 1925-2001

Cecil M. "Reedie" Phillips, 76, of Great Bend, died May 24 at Central Kansas Medical Center, St. Rose Campus in Great Bend. She was born May 20, 1925, in Wichita, the daughter of William Cecil and Violet Marie Brown McCullough. She married Herbert L. Phillips II in August 1944 in Wichita. A resident of Great Bend, coming from Augusta, she was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband of the home; two sons, Herbert L. Phillips III of Heizer and William Cecil Phillips of Derby; four grandchildren; and three step-grandchildren. Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Bryant-Christians Funeral Home Chapel in Great Bend with the Rev. Dr. Gordon E. Rhodes officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at El Paso Cemetery in Derby. Friends may call until 9 tonight and from 9 a.m. until service time Saturday, all at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the donor's choice, in care of the funeral home. Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune, May 25, 2001

Children of HERBERT PHILLIPS and CECIL MCCULLOUGH are: Two children

8. MARION⁴ PHILLIPS (HERBERT LEWIS³, MARY JANE² JOHNSON, THOMAS¹) was born 1918 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. She married UNKNOWN GORDON.