Joseph Wilson Baines and Ruth Ament Huffman

At the beginning of November, we visited the oldest cemetery in Fredericksburg. The town was founded on 8 May 1846. Its earliest settlers and pioneers were buried in the graveyard "Der Stadt Friedhof" (City Cemetery).

Joseph Wilson Baines, the maternal grandfather of President LB Johnson, was born in Louisiana, later he moved with his family to Texas. Joseph Wilson studied law at Baylor University, then the man moved to Collin County, Texas where our paternal ancestors lived as well. J. W. Baines served as Secretary of State of Texas (1883-1887). He died in Fredericksburg Texas.

Joseph's wife Ruth Ament Huffman was born on 10 Dec. 1854 in Rowlett, Collin County, Texas. The marriage took place on 12 Sept. 1869.

Record source: "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K61P-832 : 10 December 2017), J W Baines and Ruth A Huffman, 12 Sep 1869; citing Marriage, citing Collin, Texas, United States, Texas State Library, Archives Division, and various Texas county clerks; FHL microfilm 1,289,595.

Ruth passed in San Antonio, TX, on 13 Feb. 1936, three decades after her husband. Both spouses found their resting place at "Der Stadt Friedhof".

We are related to Ruth Ament Baines via Silas Liter Harrington, the husband of Vera Virginia Andrews, our fourth cousin twice removed.

Joseph Wilson Baines
⇒ his wife  Ruth Ament Huffman - Silas' cousin - twice removed
⇒ her father John Smith Huffman III (b. 7 May 1825, Bourbon County, Kentucky/d. 22 June 1865, Plano, Collin, Texas)
⇒ his sister Martha Harrington nee Huffman (b. 1830/d. 1864)
⇒ her son Silas Liter Harrington (b. 29 April 1851, Plano, Collin County, TX/d. 21 March 1932, Collin Co., TX)
⇒ his son Joseph Alfred Harrington (b. 31 March 1874, Collin, TX/d. 9 April 1957, Plano, Collin, TX)
⇒ his son Silas Liter Harrington (b. 1896, Texas/d. 1942, Texas)
⇒ his wife Vera Virginia Harrington nee Andrews (b. 26 Dec. 1897, Collin, Texas/d. 3. March 1955, Texas) - our paternal fourth cousin twice removed
⇒ her mother Ora Susan Andrews nee Forman (b. 23 Feb. 1869, Plano, Collin, TX/d. 1932, Texas)
⇒ her mother Lucette Abigail Thomas (16 August 1823, Bowling County, Kentucky/d. 20 Jan. 1987, Plano, Collin, TX)
⇒ her husband Jarrot Howard - our great-great-grandfather