Find Bryant Johnson on the 1850 and 1860 Covington County, AL censuses:

Byrant - born about 1815 GA
Sarah - born about 1820 GA
Josiah N. - born about 1834 GA
Martha E. - born about 1838 GA
George W. - born about 1842 GA
Elizabeth - born about 1844 GA
Micajah - born about 1845 GA
Melissa Ann - born about 1848 GA
Sarah - born about 1850 AL
John H. - born about 1853 AL
Susan A. - born about 1855 AL
Samuel H. - born about 1860 AL

Find the widow Sarah Johnson on the 1870 and 1880 Walton County, FL censuses.

I can deduce that Melissa married Thomas Miller and she died in Walton County in Jan. 1923 and buried at Cluster Springs.

John H. married Mary Frances ?? and he died 1914 in Walton County.

Samuel H. maried Mary J. Truett. He died Jan. 3, 1930 in Gadsden County, FL, but buried in Defuniak Springs, Walton County.

On the 1850 census, Bryant Johnson is only a few households away from William and Polly Johnson, whom I feel sure are my ggg-grandparents and are possibly the parents of Bryant.

Would love to hear from anyone researching this family.

Now be careful, for there is another Bryant Johnson born about 1809 NC on the 1850 Early County, GA census & the 1860 & 1880 Conecuh County, AL census & on the 1870 Santa Rosa County, FL census, who also has a son named Micajah born about 1851 GA. This 2nd Bryant, about the same age, son with same name, and living in roughly the same area, led me on a WILD goose chase for a while. Would make you think that somehow the 2 Bryants are connected....

Blessings,

Ken Johnson