Rev. Alfred W. Johnston was born 25 September 1834 in Alabama. He was in Texas by 1848. He was listed as a student at Chapel Hill College, Daingerfield, Texas in 1852. He served churches in Cherokee County, Texas and died there 30 September 1870.
[Source: letter from researcher]
Ministerial Directory - 1869
A. W. Johnson, Mansfield, La. - Marshall Presbytery - Synod of Texas
[Source: General Assembly Minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 83]
Ministerial Directory - 1870
A. W. Johnson, Mansfield, La. - Marshall Presbytery - Synod of Texas
[Source: General Assembly Minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 78.]
Rev. A. W. Johnston is buried in the Knoxville Cemetery. It is in NE Cherokee County, Texas, between highway 110 and farm road 856 about 4 miles south of Troup, Texas.
[source: Crawford, Helen Wooddell. Cemeteries of NE Cherokee County, Texas, Book 3. Jacksonville, Texas: by the author, 1972.]