Record of Burial

Solomon Johnson Sr. was born in Orange, CT  Feb. 9, 1786, the seventh child of Ebenezer and Esther Punderson Johnson. He was a descendant of John Johnson, a planter in the original New Haven Colony and was  farmer and the 1st town clerk of Orange and he died in Orange on June 16th, 1843.

He had four children-

Solomon Punderson Johnson, who would become a gold miner in California and the Black Hills ;

 Pvt. David Alling Johnson (also buried in Grove Street, but listed as David “S.” Johnson on his Civil War marker) who would die August 6, 1864 in New Haven of  wounds received in the battle of Rappahannock Station; 

1st Lt. William Holt Johnson, born in Orange who was wounded in the side at the battle of Bermuda Hundred and was a maker of carriage trimmings in New Haven as well as the janitor of the First Church;

A child who died in infancy.