Johnny Appleseed Pictures

Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman on September 26th, 1774.  He was born in a small town called Leominster in Massachusetts. When he was a child his father decided he would apprentice him out to a apple orchard farmer named Mr. Crawford.  His mother had another son in 1776 but he soon died as did his mother of tuberculosis.  Once that happened John and his older sister was raised by relatives because there father was an officer attached to General George Washington's forces based out of New York.

When John Chapman was 18 he took his half brother Nathaniel who was 11, and his older sister with him.  They were heading west toward the waters of Susquehanna.  It was said that John at the time was practicing nurseryman and picked Pomace seeds at the Potomac cider mills toward the late 1790's.  There are mixed stories about where he was around this time but land records place him near Licking County, Ohio in 1800.  The land that he was on was to be given to people that have fought in the Revolutionary war.  By the time they showed up all the trees that Johnny had planted were big enough to be relocated.

In 1806 he arrived in Jackson County, Ohio by floating down the Ohio River.  By this time he had gotten the nickname Johnny Appleseed.  He spent the rest of the time he was alive he was itinerant planter and part time preacher.  The image of Johnny Appleseed is kinda different then the reality of him.  He didn't randomly plant apple trees where ever he went, he actually grew nurseries and he left those to the local farmers and townspeople in the area to take care of.  Most of these nurseries were located in Ohio.  Cider Mills gave him the seeds for free because they felt that in the long run the trees that he had planted would eventually increase business for them.

He was homely looking because he only wore the worst of the clothes that he owned.  He always gave away the better of the clothes to people that he felt needed them more.  It was also said that he never wore shoes either, even in the cold winter months.  Some had said that he suffered from a genetic disease called Marfan Syndrome which was a disease that gave him long and skinny limbs.  Some say that this disease made it so he did not feel the severity of the cold, that is how he was able to not wear shoes without having side effects.  Though some people believe that he couldn't have had that disease because people that have it normally do not live as long and have cardiovascular complications.  The fact that he lived longer then he would if he had it, as well as he died in his sleep of what people thought was pneumonia.

Many of the stories about Johnny Appleseed, they all tell of how he

introduced apples trees to the mid-west.  He was also said to have

been a very generous person.  It was said that whenever people saw

him they said he was always in rag clothing, he would give his better

clothing to people that he thought needed it more.

This is supposedly the gravestone and the site where John Chapman or

"Johnny Appleseed" is buried. This grave is in Fort Wayne, Indiana where

it is a fact that it's where Johnny Appleseed had died.

Here is a memorial stone in Ohio that celebrates

life of Johnny Appleseed.  He was a great man

that was very generous, and always put people

ahead of his well being.

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