Caleb B. “K” and Angeline “Pemmie” (Hall) Johnson family notes

Original Facebook post: Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 11:28pm.

Caleb B. “K” and Angeline “Pemmie” (Hall) Johnson family notes

Angeline "Pemmie" (Hall) Johnson & husband Caleb B. "K" Johnson.
Note her converse sneakers -her usual style.
He had very, very poor eyesight always -if any of you knew of the reason,
please share as there are several descdants on this line that also have similar problem in varying degrees.

Caleb B. "K" Johnson
I do not know what "B" stands for -if you do PLEASE share.
Born 1 Mar 1872, Weeksbury, Floyd Co KY.
Died 26 Mar 1966, Kite, Knott Co KY. He always had very poor eyesight but never a diagnosis known (if you know of ...tales, PLEASE share them).
My Granny, Zettie Bates, his daughter, said he was a farmer & sold produce in the areas he lived. That I am aware he was not a coal miner.
He was raised in the Weeksbury KY area.
He's the son of Caleb Johnson & Mahala "Halley" (Justice/Jestice) Johnson. His father had a second marriage to Polly Whitacre & Zettie Bates had many tales & memories of Granny Polly.

Angeline "Pemmie" (Hall) Johnson
Born 05 Sep 1882 in Kite, Knott County, KY.
She died 23 Mar 1972, Knott County, KY. Her cause of death as best her daughter, Zettie (Johnson) Bates knew was ovarian cancer or a type of female cancer; it was never something you talked about -"female troubles". (If you have more details, PLEASE share.)
She attended the Mallie Church of the Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptist.
She's the daughter of Samuel "Sam" Hall & Malinda "Lynn" "Linda" Johnson.

My maternal great-grandmother, Angeline "Pemmie" (Hall) Johnson.
It's on the porch of her house at the head of Bill D Holler near Kite, Knott Co KY.
Just across the way is the cemetery where she & family are buried.

Marriage of K & Pemmie
"K" and "Pemmie" married 18 Feb 1901 in Whitesburg, Letcher County, KY.
Their children included:
George "Noodlehead" Johnson (married Lizy Thornsberry)
Kanawha "Bush" Johnson (married Mindy Thornsberry)
Calvin "Snowball" Johnson (married Fronnie Johnson) -Calvin is still living
Estill "Son" Johnson (married Zella Bates)
Zettie Walker (yes, her middle name her father blessed her with was Walker) "Tudy" Johnson (married Andrew J. "Andy" Bates) -my maternal grandmother
William M. "Wid/Wedd" Johnson (married Lula "Luly" Hall)
Lettie Johnson (married Farris Bates)
Hattie Johnson (died 3 days old of "black arseptic" a blood disease that wasn't uncommon then; she was buried at 4 days old in cemetery where her parents are also buried)
Rosanna "Thomas" "Rosannie" Johnson (married Johna "Jack" Thornsberry).

Burial of K & Pemmie
"K" & "Pemmie" are buried at the far end, head of the holler on Bill D Branch at Kite, Knott County, KY.  To eventually find it, you turn up the holler, past the old schoolhouse and just keep on a driving. It's now a gravel road due to coal mining heavy in there now. Even when I was a young kid, we'd have to drive a vehicle down the creek part of the way up the holler.  You only went when knew creek was low. Now a vehicle can pull up around to a fenced area of the cemetery at what was the side of the cemetery. Used to you'd park where the road ends, where the houses stood, and cross over the creek via a tree felled or maybe a rough lumber bridge that would be dangerous & wobbly. There's a long line of their kids buried up there and it's filled in to a good sized cemetery now.
If you pass there when it's blooming with daisies smile and smell them but leave them for others to enjoy. Always made Granny's day when we'd see flowers in bloom around there -something alive up there.

This picture is as it was, blurred -it's not a bad scan.
Mom believes it is Grandma Pemmie (Angeline "Pemmie" Hall Johnson) and her sister "Aunt Caroline" (Caroline Hall and she'd married Bud Hall) as Mom used to go visit Aunt Caroline & Grandma Johnson. But then were not certain since Mom's legally blind not as easy one to make out for her.
Dad was asked and generally he knew the pics but on this one he was not certain.
If you have better clues, please share ideas.
This would have been taken early 1960s; one from Mom's picture files.

Thornsberry family connections of the spouses of children of K & Pemmie
Lizy & Jack are children of Marshall & Rosannie (Hall) Thornsberry.
Marshall is the son of Miles & Clarinda Thornsberry.

Bates family connections of the spouses of children of K & Pemmie
Farris and Zella are siblings, and a cousin is Andy
 Farris Bates and Zella (Bates) Johnson are the children of Tilden Tildon "Tinny" Bates & Martha M. "Sissy" (Hall) Bates.  Tinny the son of Washington Uriah Bates & Luanna "Pink" Hall.
Uriah & Pink had another son Joseph "Joe" Bates who married Margaret Alice "Mary Alice" "Babe" Vanover and they had a son Andrew J. "Andy" Bates who married Zettie Walker "Tudy" (Johnson) Bates.

Four Generations of Bates as well as four generations of Johnsons.
Back row, left to right: Carnelous "Cack" Bates, son of Zettie (Johnson) Bates.
Zettie Walker "Tudy" (Johnson) Bates, daughter of Pemmie Johnson,
and daughter-in-law of Mary Alice Bates.
Bottom row, left to right: Margaret Alice "Mary Alice" "Babe" (Vanover) Bates;
Brenda (Bates) Allen, daughter of Cack Bates; Angeline "Pemmie" Hall.