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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Johnson Williams was born in 1840 in Missouri and moved with her family to Texas in 1844 where her parents settled in Hays County and founded the Johnson Institute, a private school. She earned her degree in 1859 from the Chappell Hill Female College in Washington County and returned to the Johnson Institute to begin her teaching career, later establishing her own primary school in Austin. She also taught at Lockhart, Pleasant Hill School, Parson s Seminary in Manor, and Oak Grove Academy in Austin.
And though teaching was her main career, also worked as a bookkeeper for prominent cattlemen and investors, including George W. Littlefield, William H. Day, and Charles W. Whitis. While working in this business she realized that there was a great deal of money to be made in the cattle industry. So, in 1871 she registered the cattle brand ‘CY’ under her own name and promptly purchased land in Hays County.