Comments on: WWI Hero Sgt. Henry Johnson Receives Long Overdue Medal of Honor https://megansmolenyak.com/wwi-hero-sgt-henry-johnson-receives-long-overdue-medal-of-honor/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/wwi-hero-sgt-henry-johnson-receives-long-overdue-medal-of-honor/#comment-217 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:18:20 +0000 http://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=156865#comment-217 In reply to AH Clayotn.

I uncovered over 1,300 pages of documents about this soldier, but it’s an uphill battle convincing others that they’ve got it wrong. If you think the fact that FindaGrave won’t correct it is maddening, try looking at his Wikipedia page which some have tried to get updated. I find it very frustrating that (Wm) Henry Johnson is still out there under a fictional bio. He earned the Medal of Honor and we can’t even get his name right, much less all his other specifics. Thanks very much for your efforts. Maybe we’ll eventually make some progress on this front.

]]> By: AH Clayotn https://megansmolenyak.com/wwi-hero-sgt-henry-johnson-receives-long-overdue-medal-of-honor/#comment-216 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:44:54 +0000 http://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=156865#comment-216 Your research concerning Henry Johnson is spot on. After reading the article after the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor to him, I did some of my own research, and found exactly what you did, using ancestry.com, fold3, and newspapers.com. From newspapers.com I read articles, most of which inaccurately identified him as Henry Lincoln Johnson. I also found that he was identified as Henry Lincoln Johnson on Find A Grave, and contacted them twice via email, letting them know that Henry Johnson was never reflected as his name on official government records or correspondence, only in newspaper articles. I was completely rejected once, and ignored the second time when I sent a detailed correspondence via email to another of their email addresses. What surprised me more, was that Find A Grave is bought by Ancestry.com, which should be trying to provide accurate information to those doing research. Well, the bottom line is, if I couldn’t get Find A Grave, i.e. Ancestry.com to correct the error that they are perpetuating, maybe you can. Anyway, thanks for your research, and best regards.

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