William Henry and Nannie Brewer Johnson

William Henry Johnson and Nannie Brewer Johnson in their 1889 wedding portrait.

William Henry Johnson was the son of Henry Johnson, who had been enslaved on Fleet Plantation. Mrs. Nannie Brewer Johnson was enslaved in Petersburg, Virginia in 1865. Although William Henry Johnson was a graduate of Hampton Institute he and his wife both took courses at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute now Virginia State University.

Sources: HBCU Library Alliance; Special Collections/ University Archives Department, Virginia State University