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REUNION—Frwa P.K. 1
4*‘» Johnson, first vice-president; Ed Johnson (Washington, D. C.), second vice-president; and Mrs. R. M, Johnson, secretary-treas. | The original house built by Wiliam Johnson, I, ton the mountain, is still standing,, and four farms of 154 acres each pjut of the original land grant are skill owned by his descendants. | , j "Henry B. Wood, a descendant of the original (owner, owns the old Red Oak house. The deed of grant of land
written on sheep skin is in the possession of Wil liam H. Johnson, a descendant.
The deed, as
"Deed dated
the son of James
of Culpeper, also
recorded, reads:
uly 19th, 1764> begVecn Peter Butler and Elizabeth,,his wife to William Johnson,
ohnson, the land beginning at Frmcis Slaughter’s line and coine to John McKinney near the top of Red Oak Mountain. The conside ation ,of the full sum of forty-foir (44) pounds! current money of Virginia. The i tract containing four hundred (400) acres, and being the major part of deed gr; nted to Robert Butler. Our Ho rorable Thomas Lord Fairfax, date the 25th day of June, 1751, by tie same Fairfax, was conveyed to the aforesaid Peter Butler by < eed dated May 5th. 1759.” '
Owners of the four Red Oakj Mountain farms are Raymond Johnson, the he rs of Harvey
Johnson, Henry B^ Wood and Albert Johnson.
Farm Bureau Ins. Now “Nationwide”
On September 1st. the name Farm Bureau Insjrance is being changed to Nationwide Insurance, according to a no^i :e received from local agent, Mrs. B. M. Miller, Washington. i In the words of Murray D. Lincoln, president of Nationwide Insurance,
the chajnge of name decision came about graduaally. He tells, too, soqicthing of the birth of ‘‘Farm Bureau” and its growth to “Nationwide Insurance.” < |*
It was 29 years a|gp that a group of us Ohio farmer* Conceived the idea that people working together could solve their owfn problems. At that time our need was for lowcost auto insurance.} With borrowed money we started our own company, Farm Bureau Insurance. “It was 29 years ago that a group
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