Elle est mariée avec Peter Apperson.
Ils se sont mariés le 17 novembre 1818 à Barren County, Kentucky, elle avait 21 ans.
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Following the death of her husband, the years from 1853 to the date of her death in 1865, were difficult ones for my great grandmother. In April 1854, her daughter, Louisa Jane Ward, died in Missouri, leaving six young children. Her son-in-law, William Ward sent their daughters Elizabeth Jane and Nancy Jefferson Ward to her in Texas to live. It was also during those years that the question of slavery became the chief moral and political issue of the times, finally culminating in the outbreak of the Civil War with the firing of that fatal shot at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. During the first part of the war the Confederates appeared to be winning, however, at Gettysburg the tide turned in favor of the North. The blockade for ships entering Southern ports was complete by 1864 and practically all supplies of war and food for carrying it on were cut off. The Apperson's, as other Southerners, found themselves going without and were forced to ration their food. Their Confederate money became worthless. Years later, Nancy J. Ward, in telling her children of the years she spent in her Grandmother Apperson's home in Texas, mentioned the times that her Uncle Tom Apperson returned home on short leaves and both he and his horse would be nearly starved. Soldiers in the field did not
have sufficient food or clothing and the winter of 1864 was one of misery for the Confederate forces, as well as southerners at home. The stories that the people had nothing to eat but a slab of bacon, chickens, cornbread and turnip greens were true literally. By 1865 that civilization of grandeur pictured so vividly by Margaret Mitchell in "Gone With The Wind" had most assuredly vanished. In the war years Elizabeth Apperson had seen state's rights and slavery become lost causes. Her property had decreased in value to but a small part of its former worth; her land went uncultivated with both sons at war, and it must indeed have been a sad, weary time for her. She became ill and deemed it advisable to make her will, which she did on January 4, 1865. Her condition worsened and on January 23, 1865, she passed on to that great beyond where there are no cares. She was buried beside her husband in the Apperson Cemetery on her farm where occasionally some of us visit their graves. Her son, James Petty, after her death, built a high concrete wall about their graves to protect them against the cattle and other livestock grazing about.
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