..... David Johnston and Sarah Day, pioneers from Kentucky who came to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1826 and in 1828 located on a farm near present Griggsville in Pike county.
    David Johnston,... was one of Pike county's early county surveyors, a position which he held for 13 years. A number of Pike county's early town plats bear the endorsement of Surveyor David Johnston. He was born in Wythe county, Virginia, July 13, 1797, a son of Larkin and Mary (Davis) Johnston. He emigrated to Kentucky, where he married Sarah Day, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Day. Locating on the river road up from Philips Ferry in 1828, two years later he moved to what is now Perry township, where he resided until his death, which occurred in September, 1879, when he was in his 83rd year.
    David Johnston and his wife Sarah had nine children, namely: Mary, who married David Winslow and located in DeWitt county, Illinois; Margaret E., who married H. J. Chenoweth of Perry; Sarah J., who married Hinson Hobbs {in Pike county October 10, 1884} , son of Nicholas, and located in the state of Kansas; Minerva A., who married William Taylor of Perry; Delilia, who married James Hughs and located in Clay county, Nebraska; Harvey D., who married Mary E. Chenoweth and located at Marysville, Missouri, where he practiced law; Artemisia, who married James B. Chenoweth resided at Lathrop, Missouri, and Ann Eliza, who married Thomas Seaborn and moved to McDonough county, Illinois.

Transcribed by Darla Stimbert January 2004

Author; Jess M. Thompson: The Jess M. Thompson Pike County history : as printed in installments in the Pike County republican, Pittsfield, Illinois, 1935-1939.
Pittsfield, Ill.: Pike County Historical Society, 1967, 582  pgs. (Part of pages 358-359)