Elijah Johnson was born on May 1779 in the Barnwell District of South Carolina. On 21 Nov 1808, Elijah Johnson and Sarah Jane Collins married in Richmond County, Georgia. A daughter Amazon Jane Johnson was born to Elijah Johnson and Sarah Jane (Collins) Johnson in Burke County, Georgia on 16 Dec 1809.

On 2 Jun 1830, Amazon Jane Johnson married Benjamin Thomas Emanuel in Jefferson County, Georgia.