June Johnson was born in 1884 to the late Benjamin Sr. and Mary Jane Johnson in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. June met and married Nanny (last name unknown), and they did not have any children. They lived near Rocky Mount, North Carolina where they sharecropped on the Powell Farm. June also worked in a factory in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. When June died, his wife left Rocky Mount to live with her relatives in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
June’s hobby was riding his bicycle. He was sixty years old when he died June 10, 1944.