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Although ecumenical in his religion, he often called on his friend, Rev. Billy
Graham. He identified the Baptist evangelist with his great grandfather, G.W. Baines.
"When I need some tall prayin', I get Billy," Johnson said in 1967.
More frequently now than at that time, we see pictures of a president in despair,
broken by the suffering of a war he could not end. We are reminded of a frontier doctor
who agonized for wounded soldiers of another war, that he could not help
Failure and achievement were blended in his presidency. In a recent book by
Vaughn Davis Bornet, "The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson," the final chapter is titled
"History Will Judge." Bornet states that Johnson was a force in civil rights, space, care
for the aged and poor, war on poverty, education, arts, environment improvement,
consumerism, and in the efforts to thwart communism overseas.
Non one will ever forget that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a president from Texas.
Half of his early Texas heritage began here in this locality. Emerson said, "In different
hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of
us rolled up in each man's skin."
Rowlett schoolmaster marries young student 9-27-87
Life in the Rowlett community (Custer and Hwy. 121) centered around the
church, one of the first Baptist churches in North Texas. It was a mother church for
churches in Dallas, Denton, and Collin County. People from far and wide attended camp
meetings at the big spring on Samuel Young's farm. A school also met in the church
building. The young schoolmaster was as Baptist as they come.
He was a descendent of George Bains of Chowan County, N.C., soldier, surveyor
and planter, and some sources say Baptist preacher - a man of education and ability.
Two of his 11 children were Baptist preachers. The youngest son, Rev. Thomas Baines,
(he changed the spelling of the name) lived in Clark County, Ga., before moving to
Tuscaloosa County, Ala. He worked in the Baptist churches in that county as early as
1818, and helped organize several churches.
His son, George Washington Baines attended the University of Alabama, senior
year of 1836. A college mate was O.M. Roberts, who became governor of Texas. G.W.
Baines was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1836. He went to Carroll County, Ark.,
then a pioneer area, and in seven years organized three churches and baptized 150 people
In 1844, he settled in north Louisiana. While there he assisted in the organization
of the Baptist church at Marshall, Texas, and caught Texas fever. He became the pastor
of the church at Huntsville, Texas, in 1850. From that time, he was a leader of the Texas
Baptist Convention. His great interest in state missions, the organization of new
churches, was a force in the denomination for 32 years. As well as pastor, he was editor
of the first Baptist paper, The Texas Baptist, until the Civil War. In 1861, during the first
year of the war, he became the president of Baylor University, then at Independence,
Texas. For two years he struggled against the odds before resigning because of ruined
health. He settled at Salado and continued his denominational work until his death in
1882.
Joseph Wilson Baines was born in 1846 while the family was in Louisiana and
was four years old when they moved to Texas. He was educated at Anderson Academy
and Baylor before serving two years in the Confederate Army. In 1867, at the age of 21,
he came to that Baptist stronghold on the banks of Rowlett Creek as the schoolmaster.92
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