Elizabeth E. Johnson: The Life Of Lizzie Johnson

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The Life of Lizzie Johnson Elizabeth E. Johnson Williams was born on May 9 ,1840 and lived in Cole County, Missouri. Lizzie was just six years old when her family moved to Texas, they first settled in Huntsville, but but later moved to Bear Creek in Hays County. Lizzie earned a degree in 1859 at the Chappell Hill Female College in Washington County. She began her career as a schoolteacher at the Johnson Institute. The school was a co educational school, it was founded in 1852 in Hays County by her parents. She later kept books for cattlemen and invested in cattle and land. Lizzie made her first real-estate transaction by purchasing ten acres of land from Whites for 3,000 gold dollars. Her legendary status as an early Texas “ Cattle Queen”.