Personal Life
He married Rebekah Baines (1881–1958), daughter of Joseph Wilson Baines, on August 20, 1907. According to Lady Bird Johnson, Johnson's daughter-in-law, he planned to join the Christadelphian Church, where his father and mother and sister were members, toward the end of his life, although records of the church show that he died before baptism was administered.
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