59th Legislature, R.S., HCR 171. Accepting the portrait of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., father of President Lyndon B. Johnson and expressing appreciation to those who commissioned the portrait. Mentions Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.'s wife's father, Joseph Wilson Baines, "Secretary of the State of Texas and a Member of the House of Representatives."
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
Confederate States Army, Company of Cadets under Captain Randle. Joseph Wilson Baines, widow Mrs. Ruth A. Baines, marriage date 9/12/1869 in Collin County, death date 11/18/1906 in Gillespie County. Pension File No. 39145, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958.
Ancestry.com .
Joseph W. Baines, birth date 1/24/1846, death date 11/18/1906, burial in City Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Gillespie County. Includes portrait and historical marker photo.
Find a Grave .
BAINES, JOSEPH WILSON (1846-1906). Former Texas Secretary of State and grandfather of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Historical markers, Home County of Pioneer Leader Joseph Wilson Baines, Johnson City vicinity, Blanco County; and J.W. and Ruth Baines House, Fredericksburg, Gillespie County.
Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) . Home County of Pioneer Leader Joseph Wilson BainesJ.W. and Ruth Baines House