Eliza Ellen (Davidson) Johnston commonplace book

Eliza Ellen Davidson (1811-1837) was born in Mississippi and later a resident of Louisiana. She was the daughter of Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson and Dr. Richard Davidson, an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army and New Orleans Port physician. Davidson came from a line of notable descendants, including her maternal grandfather, John Pintard, (1749-1845) of New York City, the first sagamore of the Tammany Society, and founder of the New York Historical Society in 1804; and her maternal great-grandfather, Col. Abraham Brasher (1734-1782), a member of the New York Provincial Congress and the Convention of the State of New York held in 1776 to 1777, and writer of many popular ballads of the revolutionary period.

In 1830 she married Judge John Harris Johnston (1795-1838), a member of the Louisiana legislature, Judge of 6th Judicial District Court until 1834, and then Parish Judge until his death. They had three children: John Pintard Johnston (1833-1854); Confederate Colonel Josiah Stoddard Johnston, [2nd] (1833-1913); and Confederate Captain Harris Hancock Johnston, (1836-1877). Her husband's brother was Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) who died at Shiloh; the highest ranking general to be killed during the Civil War.

Eliza Johnston died on March 23, 1937 in New Orleans.