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Johnson was born at home and named '''Oscar Neal Johnson'', one of five children of Olvy Johnson (1903-1975) and the former Elsie Faye Keeling (1906-1976) in [Murfreesboro, the seat of Pike County] in southwestern Arkansas. Given the nickname "Sox" at Murfreesboro High School, he dropped the "Oscar" and became "Neal Sox Johnson." In 1955, he received a Bachelor of Science Education degree from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, when the institution was known as Henderson State Teachers College. He later undertook graduate studies at the [[University of Arkansas]] at Fayetteville. After college, he worked briefly as a draftsman and estimator for a construction company and for USX (then U.S. Steel) in Gary, [[Indiana]], where his late sister then resided. In 1956, Johnson entered Reserve Officer Training School at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]]. He subsequently settled in Nashville in Howard County in southwestern Arkansas, where he operated a construction company and a building supply business.<ref name=statement>Statement of Neal Sox Johnson, Temple, [[Texas]], April 2011</ref>

Johnson was born at home and named '''Oscar Neal Johnson'', one of five children of Olvy Johnson (1903-1975) and the former Elsie Faye Keeling (1906-1976) in Murfreesboro, the seat of Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. Given the nickname "Sox" at Murfreesboro High School, he dropped the "Oscar" and became "Neal Sox Johnson." In 1955, he received a Bachelor of Science Education degree from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, when the institution was known as Henderson State Teachers College. He later undertook graduate studies at the [[University of Arkansas]] at Fayetteville. After college, he worked briefly as a draftsman and estimator for a construction company and for USX (then U.S. Steel) in Gary, [[Indiana]], where his late sister then resided. In 1956, Johnson entered Reserve Officer Training School at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]]. He subsequently settled in Nashville in Howard County in southwestern Arkansas, where he operated a construction company and a building supply business.<ref name=statement>Statement of Neal Sox Johnson, Temple, [[Texas]], April 2011</ref>