Elizabeth Onstott (1826 - 1905)

Born 15 Jan 1826 in Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 16 Feb 1905 at age 79 in Hunt, Texas, United States

Biography

Elizabeth was known to her younger family members as Miss Bettie or Aunt Bettie; she never married. Notes below are from a partial transcription of a letter written by her niece Mattie Mae, daughter of T. J. (Thomas Jefferson Onstott) of stories she was told by Aunt Bettie when Mattie was a young girl:

These memories begin with her parents, John Onstott, Sr. whom they knew as John West Onstott and his wife "Polly Woods." "John West had a family of seven boys (one choked to death on a grain of corn at 10 mos. of age) and one girl [Elizabeth]. Six boys lived to be grown and served in Confederate Army. One died after the War ended, on his way home; one was never heard from after the War, supposed to have died in Yankee prison camp. John West, Jr. was Captain in Gillespie's Co., Garlands Command. All the boys that survived, married and reared families. ... Bettie never married but reared and partly reared 5 sets of orphan and half-orphan nephews and nieces. She lived to be 79 years old, and was hale and hearty. Could thread a needle without glasses and didn't have a decayed tooth and was a friend to the needy and sick and gave a home to the homeless that passed her way. She could tell of pioneer days and Civil War days by the hour." --Date of letter is unknown.

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buried at the Onstott Cemetery