Saturday, March 22, 2008

Elizabeth Sharpe Woodward Medearis Yowell

Elizabeth Sharpe Woodward was born in Amelia County, Virginia, in 1783. When she moved to Tennessee, she travelled with Andrew and Rachel Jackson, who were returning from Washington, DC, where Jackson was a member of Congress. She married George Washington Davis Medearis in 1809. Washington Medearis died in 1838, and she married Joel Yowell of Marshall County, Tennessee. Yowell was the father of her son-in-law, William Yowell. During the Civil War she died while visiting her daughter in, Sarah Medearis Lloyd of Cheneyville, Louisiana.

By the time of the Medearis Trip to Texas, she was apparently twice a widow, and known as Grandmother Yowell, even to her Medearis granchildren.

From Miss Moore's article on "The Medearis Trip to Texas" in The Volunteer, Spring 1991.

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