To the left is where Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson will be laid to rest. The President s brother, Sam, and his three sisters, Rebekah, Josepha and Lucia are to the left of the President s grave. Rebekah s husband, Oscar Bobbitt, is also buried in the main row. After one of the trees in the cemetery died, Mrs. Johnson had a tree ring study conducted on it, and the tree was found to be almost 200 years old. The fuzzy, round plants growing on the trees are ball moss.
Ball moss is closely related to the better known Spanish moss.
It is not actually a moss, but rather an epiphyte, or air plant. It attaches to the trees, but it derives its nutrition from the air, thus it is non-parasitic. The Johnson Family Cemetery is privately owned by the Johnson family. Please respect their requests and do not enter the cemetery.