In 1880 he is living in Elizabethtown, next to Henry and near James and Celia Peck. With him are wife Alice and son William, 8 months. He is a farmer. There is a “Francis Vama...(?)” aged living with them and listed as son, but obviously that’s not correct. 24

Halsey is listed with ages consistent with a birth year of 1855 in early censuses, but in 1900 he gives his birthdate as May 1857, age 43, an has been married for 22 years. He and his parents were born in New York. He is a day laborer who can read and write and rents his home. He is living with wife Alice, sons William H. and Walter J., daughters Nellie L. and Carolyn, as well as parents Henry and Lucretia R.10

There is another Halsey Johnson, wife Caroline, who is found in the 1880 census for Thurman, Warren County, b. app. 1825, who may be worth looking at as another potential Johnson family member.