This page is a dedication to my great-great Grandfather from mother's side.

Born: 12 Aug 1835  at Forest Hill, a plantation in the northwester edge of the County of Spotsylvania, State of Virginia.  Western side approached to half a mile of Orange County line and lay about five miles from Orange Springs.  Follow this link to map.
Died:2 Mar 1915, Clinton, MS.
Married: 12 Jul 1860, Toy Residence, Norfolk, VA to Julia Anna Toy.  Their marriage eventually gave rise to the Golden Wedding Picture.
Children: Percy Boyte, Alice Olgilvie, Julia Toy, John Lipscomb Jr., Crwaford Toy, Jessie Rosalind, Wortley Valentine, Mary Rawlings

Pictures:

Internet Links that contain more JLJ information:

University of North Carolina
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/j/Johnson,John_Lipscomb
The Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a archive of John Lipscomb Johnson material in the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION #3060 JOHN LIPSCOMB JOHNSON PAPERS.  See the link below for an inventory.

Marshall University
http://www.marshall.edu/speccoll/blake/J2-BIB.html
The Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History at Marshall University contains both the Autobiographical Notes book plus one of his published works: Johnson, John Lipscomb. The University memorial; biographical sketches of alumni of the University of Virginia who fell in the Confederate War. Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1871.
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