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John Wheeler Bunton

Eliza Bunton Johnson, Lyndon’s grandmother

Lyndon at eighteen months, 1910

Lyndon, with cousins Ava and Margaret Johnson, behind Kitty Clyde Ross, 1913

Lyndon “in the forefront”—at a family picnic in 1913

Right:
Before Lyndon’s graduation, at fifteen, from Johnson City High School. First row: Second from right, cousin Margaret. Second row: Third from right, his sister Rebekah; far right, Kitty Clyde Ross (with whom he was “in love”). Back row: from left, Clarence Redford, John Casparis, Otto Crider, John Dollahite, Lyndon, —, —, Principal Arthur K. Krause (with tie), —, Tom Crider, —, —, George Crofts.

Starting to meeting, Sunday morning: Sam Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson (left); Sam Sr., and Eliza (middle). The Johnsons would meet at Sam Sr.’s house in Stonewall and race to church.

Johnson City, where the family moved in 1913

Lyndon’s parents: Rebekah Baines Johnson, 1917; Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., at home in the Texas House of Representatives, in 1905, the first of his six legislative terms.

Lyndon, 1924

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