My great-grandfather was a man named Charlie Johnson. I don't know if that was short for Charles or not. Most records say his middle initial was "H", but at least one records his middle name as Ray and another as Franklin. According to the census data, he was born somewhere in North Carolina in the late 1870s, possibly as late as 1880. He married my great-grandmother, Letha Arbell Lewis (1898-1970), 5 May 1914 in Pactolus, Pitt County. My grandmother was born 19 May 1914! From their marriage record, I know that his parents were Jim and Winnie Johnson. I don't know if either of them were still alive, I haven't been able to look at the marriage license to see. Both my grandmother and Great-Uncle Frank (1916-2005) were born in Pactolus, and their brother Irvin (1919-1942) was born in Pamlico County. By 1920 they all lived in Kinston and in 1930 in Richlands. At the time of my grandmother's marriage in 1931, then lived in Alliance, Pamlico County. Charlie was still alive at this point. Their youngest child, Albert, was born and died in Pamlico County 1 November 1931. Great-grandma Letha remarried 26 Jun 1936 to Radie Colorado Banks in Lenoir County. When Uncle Frank married in September 1936, Charlie was listed as "dead" on the marriage license. According to the 1940 census, Letha and Radie and some of the younger children were living in the Sand Hill area of Lenoir County, and had been there in 1935.
I don't know where in North Carolina Charlie was born and I don't know anything about his parents other than their names.
