====== Cave Johnson ======
Cave Johnson was among the most prominent early [[Boone County]] citizens. The son of William and Elizabeth Johnson, Cave was born 15 November 1760 in Orange Co., Virginia. He served as a Private in the [[Revolutionary War]], then came to Kentucky in April of 1779, spending time at Bryant's Station near Lexington.

On 1 February 1784 Johnson married Betsy Craig, and they moved to Woodford County. In 1786 he served with General [[George Rogers Clark]] under Colonel William Steele as a Captain. 

Johnson was clerk to the Quarter Sessions of the Woodford County Court from 1789-[[1796]]. In 1792 he was one of the trustees appointed to lay off the town of Versailles. 

In [[1796]] he moved to the [[North Bend]] of the [[Ohio River]] in what was then Campbell County, and soon after united with the [[Bullittsburg Baptist Church|Baptist Church]] at [[Bullittsburg]] by letter. At some point he was appointed Colonel of Militia and he served in this post until [[1819]]. About this time he became [[Justice of the Peace]] until [[1833]], when he became [[Sheriff]] of Boone County at the venerable age of 73. He was elected to the Kentucky Legislature in [[1817]]. In 1819 he became a charter member of the [[Sand Run Baptist Church]]. 

Betsy (Craig) Johnson died 11 March 1833. Cave Johnson and his second wife, Sarah T. Keene, were married 2 Oct [[1834]]. Sarah died 30 September [[1835]], at just over forty years of age. Cave Johnson and Margaret C. Keene were married 1 December [[1836]]. She died in [[1855]], surviving him by five years. He died 19 January [[1850]], and was buried at the [[Sand Run Baptist Church]] Cemetery. He was ninety years old. 

Cave and Betsy Johnson's children include:
  - John Quaro b. 27 Dec 1784
  - Sallie b. 25 Feb 1787
  - Benjamin b. 17 Feb 1789
  - Younger b. 17 Jan 1791
  - Nancy Ann b. 27 Jan 1793
  - Cave Jr. b. 31 Mar 1795
  - Elizabeth b. 22 Feb 1797
  - Catherine b. 6 Dec 1799
  - Lucinda b. 11 May 1804
  - Harriet b. 7 Mar 1807
  - Jane b. 14 Jun 1809
  - Polly b. 25 Jun 1811
===== More Information =====
  * //[[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/26581/0|Some Reminiscences from the Life of Col. Cave Johnson Together with an Obituary Written at the Time of His Death]]// by Cave Johnson


===== Related Topics =====
  * [[Biographies]]
  * [[Cave Johnson House]]
  * [[Johnson family]]