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 Birthplace of Rebekah Baines Johnson Posted by:  txoilgas
N 33° 11.597 W 096° 36.802
14S E 722487 N 3675252
Texas Historical Marker on the site where Rebekah Baines Johnson was born in 1881, with some background on her family. Of course, she is best known as the mother of future president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Located at 411 S Chestnut, McKinney, TX.
Waymark Code: WM7WQ7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2009
Views: 11
Marker Number: 6170
Marker Text:
Joseph Wilson Baines (1846-1906), son of minister editor-Baylor University President George W. Baines, settled in Collin County in 1867. He taught school and in 1869 married Ruth Huffman, daughter of a physician of the Peters Colony. Baines read law under ex-governor James W. Throckmorton, began his practice, edited the McKinney "Advocate", and helped organize and build the city's first Baptist church. He and his wife lived at this site when their child Rebekah was born. Baines served 1883 to 1887 as Texas Secretary of State, later practiced law in Blanco and Fredericksburg, and was a legislator in 1903-1904.
Rebekah Baines (1881-1958) studied at Baylor College in Belton and became a teacher and journalist. In 1907 she married Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr. (1877-1937), a rancher and former schoolteacher who also served in the Texas Legislature from 1905 through 1908 and from 1917 through 1923. The couple continued to ranch in the Hill Country, published the Johnson City "Record-Courier", and were parents of five children. Their eldest, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), after a long career in the national Congress, served as the 36th president of the United States. (1976)
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