Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 913 of 1,110

                                
HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.

has always supported those enterprises which
tended to the general welfare.  He has been
a member of the City Council, and is now
chairman of the Finance Committee. He
owns one of the elegant residences on Ross
avenue, where he is surrounded by his family
and all the comforts that wealth and culture
can bring.
8  B. JOHNSTON, a farmer and stockraiser
of Dallas county, was born in
Shelby county, Illinois, November 16,
1848, the sixth of nine children born to
Isaac P. and Thurza (Weaver) Johnstonl
natives of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Tile father went to Shelby county, Illinois;
when a young man, where he was married;
and later, in 1854, came with his family to
Dallas county, and died in this county in
1863; the mother, born in 1810, is still
living, residing with her children. She isj
as was her husband, a member of the Christian
Church. He was a Douglas Democrat.
Of their nine children, eight are still living,
viz.: Marion, of Farmers' Branch, Dallas
county; Elizabeth, wife of M. De Frest, who
resides on the old homestead; John A. and
William L., who enlisted in this county, in
Allison's company, whic!. was captured in
February, 1863, and confined at Arkansas
Post, where William L. died, at the age of
eighteen years; Mary A., who married John
Warner, of Dallas county, and is deceased;
H. B., the subject of this sketch; A. P., who
resides in the West; Isaac W., who resides
on part of the homestead; Senia H., wife of
G. F. Banowsky, of Hamilton county, Texas.
Thle subject of this sketch was reared in
Dallas county, and educated in the subscription
schools. Since 1880 he has been engaged
as collector for the McCormick Harvester
Company, his field of operation being
mostly in Texas. After his marriage he settled
on his farm on Preston road, where he
has 415 acres in a good state of cultivation.
Mr. Johnston was married in this county,
August 31, 1882, to Fannie E. Smith, a
native of Dallas county, and a daughter of
La Fayette and Margaret S. (Daniel) Smith,
natives of Mississippi and Alabama. The
father cane to Texas at an early day, was
married in Dallas county, and afterward settled
on a farm near the city of Dallas. He
enlisted as Captain of a company in G-urley's
regiment, and remained until the surrender,
when he returned to Dallas county, and prior
to the war he was Police Magistrate. Mr.
and Mrs. Johnston have two children,William
Earle and Annie Isabelle. Politically,
Mr. Johnston is a member of the
Democratic party, and religiously both he
and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mrs. Johnston has a sister,
Sophronia, older than herself, and a
brother, younger than herself,-James A.,
who married Mattie Layton and resides in
Dallas.
9r W. SWOR, one of the representative
men of Dallas county, was born in
Henry county, Tennessee, May 31,
1834, the youngest of the twelve children of
Robert and Sally (Rushin) Swor, natives of
South Carolina. His parents, who were
married in that State, emigrated to the western
part of Tennessee, where the father engaged
in farming. They both died in that
State, the father in 1872, at the age of about
eighty-five years, and the mother in 1878,
aged about eighty-three years. The father
served as a private two years in the war of
1812, and drew a pension for that service.

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