Claudia Alta Taylor Purty As A Ladybird

Claudia Alta Taylor was born in Karnack, Texas on December 22, 1912 in a huge “Brick House .” She was the youngest of three and the only female. Her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, born in 1874 and died in 1960, was a businessman and her mother Minnie Pattillo Taylor, born in 1874 and died whenever she was just five years old in 1919. Since she was the only girl, she was raced by her Aunt Effie Patillo. Whenever she was very young a woman at her home compared her beauty to a lady bird by saying that she was as “purty as a ladybird” and from then she has been known as “Lady Bird” by her entire family and friends. She was very smart and since in her era not many women continued school, she was one of the few who loved school and had the opportunity to go off to college. …show more content…
She was such a dedicated, hardworking and successful student because she was honored and awarded many times by so many different universities. During this time she was a successful graduate student and then she met a young and equally successful congressional secretary. Lyndon Baines Johnson was attracted to Lady Bird and he did not waste time and won over her heart with all his romantic gestures. In a couple of months of the year 1934 they fell in love and Johnson proposed to her and they got married on November 17, 1934 in Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. About ten years after the wedding they welcomed a beautiful daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson, and three years after that she gave birth to a second daughter, Luci Baines Johnson. They were a really normal, happy and modern American