Johnson Family Cemetery

A patriotic wreath honors our 36th president each year on his birthday.

NPS Photo / Jack Burton

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Most of the people buried in the cemetery are related to Lyndon Johnson. The first burial, in 1905, is marked by a white marble gravestone with a lamb on top and belongs to the president's great-grandmother, Priscilla McIntosh Bunton. Due to a violent spring storm and river flooding, she was unable to be buried beside her husband at the Stonewall Community Cemetery. A spot within a grove of live oak trees was chosen for her final resting place on her son-in-law's (Sam Ealy Johnson Sr., the president's grandfather) property.

President and Mrs. Johnson's gravestones are the tallest red granite markers in the main row. While looking at the headstones from the main cemetery gate, the headstones to the right of the first lady and president mark the final resting places of the president's parents and grandparents. Rebekah Johnson, the president's mother, died in 1958 while her son was majority leader of the US Senate. Next is the burial site for Sam E. Johnson Jr., the president's father. Sam died in 1937, a few months after Lyndon Johnson was elected to the US House of Representatives. The president's grandparents, Sam Ealy Johnson Sr. and his wife Eliza (Bunton) Johnson, share a headstone.

To the left of President and Mrs Johnson are the president's brother, Sam, and his three sisters, Rebekah, Josefa, and Lucia. Rebekah's husband, Oscar Bobbitt, is also buried in the main row as is Lucia's husband, Birge Alexander.

The prominent gray gravestone in front marks the burial site of the president's Aunt Frank and Uncle Clarence Martin. It was the Martins' house and property that Senator Johnson acquired in 1951.

After lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. and at his library in Austin, Texas, President Johnson's funeral was held at his ranch on a cold and rainy day, January 25, 1973. Hundreds of people attended the funeral, which was conducted by Reverend Billy Graham.