William was born about 1841 in Tennessee to Joseph Johnson and Cynthia Shepherd. He had 2 older sisters, Margaret and Mary, one older brother, Thomas Russell, and 3 younger sisters and one younger brother, Nancy, Emily, Arabella and Joseph.
The 1870 census shows 28 yr. old William R. and his wife Mary, 22, living with his parents in Sumner, Tennessee. They'd married in December of 1869 and the census was take in August. William passed away about 1910.
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