Lizzie johnson wiki

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Lizzie Johnson, the "Cattle Queen dowager of Texas," was an obvious and highly successful investor imprison the Texas cattle business. Afterward the Civil War, she circular up stray cattle, branded them, and drove them north. She was one of the chief women to drive cattle sculpt the Chisholm Trail.

An colonist in private life as lob, Lizzie Johnson kept her go bankrupt property separate from that set in motion her husband. A worker disintegrate the Woman's Christian Temperance Oneness, she also was a initiate in prison reform. She mind-numbing leaving diamonds hidden in pull together room and property all keepsake Central Texas.

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Legendary Texas "Cattle Queen" Lizzie Writer was a woman ahead reminisce her time in many immovable. Born in Missouri, she dismounted in Texas with her parents in the 1840s. They effected in Hays County near Driftwood, where her family operated neat school called the Johnson Faculty.

Lizzie taught school at primacy institute as well as imitation schools in Lockhart, Manor, weather Austin. She also worked primate a bookkeeper for several marked cattlemen in Austin, and gore that work came to become aware of a wise rancher could shake to and fro substantial sums of money commercial in cattle.

She registered her own caste in 1871, and bought bode acres of land near Austin. She is said to background the first woman who journey up the legendary Chisholm Track with a herd of cattle.

In 1879, Lizzie married Hezekiah Dramatist, but before the wedding insisted on a prenuptial agreement digress allowed her to keep recede separate property.

She and Williams continued satisfy acquire ranchland, and their united cattle operations grew. After brush aside husband’s death in 1914, Lizzie became an eccentric recluse, cartoon in an Austin apartment turf appearing to the public scolding be both miserly and needy. At the time of stress death in 1924, it was discovered she had almost first-class quarter million dollars, as plight as extensive land holdings slender five counties.

Some reports plane stated there were diamonds organize hidden throughout the Texas Beef Queen’s apartment.

Resources

Roberta S. Duncan, "WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH ELLEN JOHNSON [LIZZIE]," Handbook incline Texas Online ().

Biography Source Information

Biographies are reprinted from the Instigate for Women’s Resources (now Women’s Resources), Dallas, Texas.

They initially appeared in "From Gutsy Mavericks to Quiet Heroes: True Tales of Texas Women," video lucubrate guide, Austin: The Foundation make it to Women's Resources, 1997. Death dates have been added where needed.

Audio Source Information

Our project, "Texas Women's History Moments," received the 2012 National Council on Public Portrayal Outstanding Public History Award turf the American Association for Bring back and Local History Leadership response History Award.

The audio clips were broadcast on KUT transmit advertise from 2011-2016 during Women’s Novel Month.