Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson was a son of Charles Earl Johnson (1786-1850) and Ann Williams Taylor Johnson (1791-1849). He was born at Bandon Plantation on the Chowan River in Chowan County, N.C. He practiced medicine in Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C.
His stated birth location and birth year are based on the book "Students of the University of Virginia (1878)." Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. Source: Students of the University of Virginia (1878). His M.D. degree was granted in 1836 by the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Medical School graduates listed in "General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania- 1922" by the Alumni Association of the University.
Doctor Daniel Earl Johnson was killed in a duel with Attorney Thomas Jones of Perquimans County that took place in Bladensburg, Maryland in 1846. Source: Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians (1884) by John H. Wheeler. The notoriety of the duel is described in "History of North Carolina from the earliest discoveries to the present time, Vol. II (1880)" by John W. Moore as follows: "The most tragic and deplorable personal difficulty, that had for a long time disturbed Eastern society, occurred in the spring of this year. Thomas F. Jones of Perquimans, a leading lawyer and son of that Thomas Jones so conspicuous in the Halifax Convention of 1776, met and slew, in a duel, at Bladensburg in Maryland, Dr. Daniel Johnson, an accomplished physician of the same county, and grandson of Charles Johnson of Bandon. This duel, and the circumstances leading to its consummation, were of painful and profound interest to the people."
The Johnson Family tradition regarding the duel between Doctor Daniel Earl Johnson and Attorney Thomas Jones is set out in a March, 1948, letter that Elizabeth Earl Jones (a granddaughter of Charles Earl Johnson, M.D. (1812-1876) and his first wife, Emily Ann Skinner Johnson (1818-1847) ) wrote to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, who owned Bandon Plantation at the time. In that letter she gives a version of the Daniel Earl Johnson - Thomas Jones duel. Elizabeth Earl Jones states in her letter that Doctor Daniel (she incorrectly calls him Richard) Johnson was unmarried and very handsome and universally beloved. He was attending the wife of a local man and the woman fell madly in love with him. Because she could not seduce him, she turned bitterly against him, and told her husband that Doctor Daniel Johnson had acted most improperly toward her. Her infuriated husband challenged Doctor Daniel Johnson to a duel with pistols at 30 paces. At the duel, Doctor Daniel Johnson fired into the air, but the jealous husband put a bullet straight through Doctor Daniel Johnson's heart. Charles Earl Johnson (Daniel's father) never got over it. The jealous husband later said: "I have killed an innocent man." Source: March 9, 1948 letter from Miss Elizabeth Earl Jones of Asheville, N.C. to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher of Edenton, N.C. in the Inglis Fletcher Papers, Collection No. 21, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson's brother-in-law, Dr. Alexander Martin (A. M.) Henderson (1807-1873), the widower of Elizabeth Earl Johnson Henderson (1810-1841), wrote an eyewitness account of Daniel Earl Johnson's dueling death in Maryland in a letter to Dr. Charles Earl Johnson (1812-1876), a brother of Daniel Earl Johnson. Source: February 2, 1846 letter to "My Dear Charles" from "A. M. Henderson" in Charles Earl Johnson Papers, manuscript collection 2851, in the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson died unmarried. Sources: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XVII, No. 1, (January, 1909) and The Maternal Ancestors and Kindred of Margaret Jane Crocker, Wife of James Francis Crocker (October, 1909 version, reprinted in 1914).
It is said that Charles Earl Johnson of Bandon was never known to smile again after the death of his son Daniel. Source: Inglis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation, University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication, Vol. XVII (1952) by Richard Walser.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson was buried at Bandon in a tomb to the right side of the house, near the front and in sight of Charles Earl Johnson's first floor study. Source: March 9, 1948 letter from Miss Elizabeth Earl Jones of Asheville to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher of Edenton, N.C. in the Inglis Fletcher Papers, Collection No. 21, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson was a son of Charles Earl Johnson (1786-1850) and Ann Williams Taylor Johnson (1791-1849). He was born at Bandon Plantation on the Chowan River in Chowan County, N.C. He practiced medicine in Hertford, Perquimans County, N.C.
His stated birth location and birth year are based on the book "Students of the University of Virginia (1878)." Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. Source: Students of the University of Virginia (1878). His M.D. degree was granted in 1836 by the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Medical School graduates listed in "General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania- 1922" by the Alumni Association of the University.
Doctor Daniel Earl Johnson was killed in a duel with Attorney Thomas Jones of Perquimans County that took place in Bladensburg, Maryland in 1846. Source: Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians (1884) by John H. Wheeler. The notoriety of the duel is described in "History of North Carolina from the earliest discoveries to the present time, Vol. II (1880)" by John W. Moore as follows: "The most tragic and deplorable personal difficulty, that had for a long time disturbed Eastern society, occurred in the spring of this year. Thomas F. Jones of Perquimans, a leading lawyer and son of that Thomas Jones so conspicuous in the Halifax Convention of 1776, met and slew, in a duel, at Bladensburg in Maryland, Dr. Daniel Johnson, an accomplished physician of the same county, and grandson of Charles Johnson of Bandon. This duel, and the circumstances leading to its consummation, were of painful and profound interest to the people."
The Johnson Family tradition regarding the duel between Doctor Daniel Earl Johnson and Attorney Thomas Jones is set out in a March, 1948, letter that Elizabeth Earl Jones (a granddaughter of Charles Earl Johnson, M.D. (1812-1876) and his first wife, Emily Ann Skinner Johnson (1818-1847) ) wrote to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, who owned Bandon Plantation at the time. In that letter she gives a version of the Daniel Earl Johnson - Thomas Jones duel. Elizabeth Earl Jones states in her letter that Doctor Daniel (she incorrectly calls him Richard) Johnson was unmarried and very handsome and universally beloved. He was attending the wife of a local man and the woman fell madly in love with him. Because she could not seduce him, she turned bitterly against him, and told her husband that Doctor Daniel Johnson had acted most improperly toward her. Her infuriated husband challenged Doctor Daniel Johnson to a duel with pistols at 30 paces. At the duel, Doctor Daniel Johnson fired into the air, but the jealous husband put a bullet straight through Doctor Daniel Johnson's heart. Charles Earl Johnson (Daniel's father) never got over it. The jealous husband later said: "I have killed an innocent man." Source: March 9, 1948 letter from Miss Elizabeth Earl Jones of Asheville, N.C. to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher of Edenton, N.C. in the Inglis Fletcher Papers, Collection No. 21, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson's brother-in-law, Dr. Alexander Martin (A. M.) Henderson (1807-1873), the widower of Elizabeth Earl Johnson Henderson (1810-1841), wrote an eyewitness account of Daniel Earl Johnson's dueling death in Maryland in a letter to Dr. Charles Earl Johnson (1812-1876), a brother of Daniel Earl Johnson. Source: February 2, 1846 letter to "My Dear Charles" from "A. M. Henderson" in Charles Earl Johnson Papers, manuscript collection 2851, in the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson died unmarried. Sources: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XVII, No. 1, (January, 1909) and The Maternal Ancestors and Kindred of Margaret Jane Crocker, Wife of James Francis Crocker (October, 1909 version, reprinted in 1914).
It is said that Charles Earl Johnson of Bandon was never known to smile again after the death of his son Daniel. Source: Inglis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation, University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication, Vol. XVII (1952) by Richard Walser.
Dr. Daniel Earl Johnson was buried at Bandon in a tomb to the right side of the house, near the front and in sight of Charles Earl Johnson's first floor study. Source: March 9, 1948 letter from Miss Elizabeth Earl Jones of Asheville to Mrs. Inglis Fletcher of Edenton, N.C. in the Inglis Fletcher Papers, Collection No. 21, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
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