Mar 12, 2021 - 11:30 am
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.
Hilltoppers hold off the Herd 81-73 By
Photo by Adam Gue / Marshall Athletics
By David Walsh
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Charles Bassey showed once again why he got picked the Conference USA preseason player of the year and also is on The Wooden Award watch list for Division I’s best big man.
The 6-foot-11 Bassey scored 21 points and pulled down a career-best 19 rebounds for his ninth double-double of the season and Josh Anderson added a game-high 22 points to power the Hilltoppers past rival Marshall, 81-73, in a matinee Friday at E.A. Diddle Arena.
CBS Sports Network carried the game live. Bassey’s just one of the reasons Western Kentucky is the preseason C-USA favorite as well.
Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham TimesÂ
 James âJakeâ Sandersâs voice was hoarse but that didnât stop him from expressing his joy that Major League Baseball now views the Negro Leagues as major league.
âThatâs the greatest thing that could have ever happened for the Negro League ballplayer because we have been left out of everything,â said the 86-year-old former outfielder whose Negro League career in the 1950s included stints with the Kansas City Monarchs, Raleigh Tigers, Birmingham Black Barons, New Orleans Bears and Detroit Stars. âThatâs the best thing that could have ever happened.â
Major League Baseball announced in mid-December that it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league.