Penelope Johnson

We think she is buried next to her husband at this cemetery, but nothing marked on it for her. She was James Johnson's second wife. They were married in 1764 in Campbell County, VA. They had 12 children.∼Penelope Anthony and James Johnson were married 1764 in Campbell Co., Virginia.

Her father was Revolutionary War Soldier Joseph Anthony who was born 5/2/1713 New Kent Co., Virginia and died 11/23/1785 in Henry Co., Virginia. Her mother was Elizabeth Clarke. This information taken from the DAR records.

Below is the will of her father.

Joseph Anthony The will and the inventory and administration of the estate of, are recorded in the clerk's office of this (Henry) county, Va., in Will Book No. 1, beginning on page 120. He was born in Henrico, afterwards Goochland, now Albemarle county, Va., May 2, 1713, married 27th April, 1741, Elizabeth Clark, as stated, who was born February 15, 1720, and lived on "Lawyer's road," in what is now Franklin county, near Staunton river, and died November 23, 1785. After his death, she, with most of her children and their families, removed to Georgia, as stated by Mrs. Mell, where she lived to be more than a hundred years old.

This Joseph Anthony has sometimes been confounded with a Baptist preacher of the same name, living contemporaneously with him, in this county, and whose will is also recorded here. I fear that the Rev. Samuel Boykin, in his History of Georgia Baptists, has fallen into this error. The Joseph of the text was a Quaker. Joseph Anthony, the Quaker, by his will, makes ample provisions for his widow, and then proceeds to devise and bequeath his large landed estate, his numerous negro slaves, and his personal property, among his fourteen surviving children, his son Charles Anthony having died unmarried and without issue. These children were:

I. Sarah Anthony, born August 15, 1742, married, February 6, 1762, Captain Thomas Cooper, Sr., member of the House of Burgesses, captain of militia in the Revolutionary period, and with John Marr, represented this county in the Virginia Convention of 1788.

II. Christopher Anthony, born March 24, 1744, married, first, Judith Moorman; and second, on the 5th June, 1775, Mary Jordan, daughter of Samuel Jordan and Hannah (Bates), his wife, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 28, 1815.

III. Elizabeth Anthony, born March 10, 1746, married in 1761, William Candler, who was born of English parents at Belfast, Ireland, in 1738, and with him removed to Georgia in 1762, where in 1771 he was made a deputy surveyor, and in the Revolutionary war served under Colonel, afterwards General, Elijah Clarke, in the attack on Augusta, at King's Mountain, and Blackstocks, and rose to the rank of colonel. He was a member of the Georgia legislature, 1784-85, and appointed to a judgship. He died at his seat in Columbia county, September, 1789, and was the great grandfather of the present Governor Candler, Bishop Candler and Judge Candler, of Georgia.

IV. Penelope Anthony, born July 26, 1748, married James Johnson, and died a widow in Leesburg, Ohio, July 26, 1822.

V. Joseph Anthony, Jr., born 28th March, 1750, married Elizabeth Clark (?), and moved to Georgia.

VI. James Anthony, born 18th December, 1752, married , and moved to Georgia. He, with Colonel George Hairston, in 1790, donated the fifty acres of land as a site for the courthouse and public buildings, where the central part of the town of Martinsville is now situated. He was the father of Dr. Milton Anthony, the distinguished physician, who founded the Medical College in Augusta, Ga.

VII. Mary Anthony, born 17th November, 1754, married Carter.

VIII. Charles Anthony, born 20th March, 1757, died as above stated.

IX. Micajah Anthony, born 23d February, 1759.

X. Agnes Anthony, born March 7, 1761, married William Blakeley.

XI. Rachel Anthony, born March 8, 1763.

XII. Wineford Anthony, born April 8, 1765.

XIII. Mark Anthony, born October 8, 1767, married Nancy Tate.

XIV. Boling Anthony, born August 23, 1769.

XV. Judith Anthony, born October 23, 1771.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 22 2020, 19:48:44 UTC