Elizabeth Patience Wright was born in Sussex Co., DE around 1850. She was the daughter of Warren Wright and his wife Maria Sockum and she was still living in 1881 when Orphans Court records were filed on her father's estate. Patience married William Arthur Johnson , the son of Whittington Johnson and his wife, Ann Norwood. (her brother David married William's sister, Emily C. Johnson)

Patience and William Arthur had the following children:

• Clinton Johnson

• William Howard Johnson who married Eliza Ann Harmon,
  daughter of Isaac Harmon and Sara Jane Sockum
  
  Children:
  
  • Harley E. Johnson (1897 - 1961)
    
  • Barnard Johnson who married Mamie Mosley
    
  • Mabel Johnson
    
  • Leon Johnson
    
  • Isaac Johnson
    
  • Lilly Johnson who married Bud Davis
    

• Nelson Johnson who married Lottie Wright, daughter of Sarah and William Wright

• Custis Johnson

• Annie Patience Johnson

• Ella Johnson