• Elizabeth’s mother was a Jouett, and for those of you who remember their history, Elizabeth’s first cousin, John (Jack Jouett) rode his horse, Sally, 40 miles through the backwoods of Virginia in order to warn Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and others that General Bannister Tarleton to Monticello in an attempt to capture Virginia’s leaders. When Elizabeth’s first husband, Tucker Woodson, died during the Revolution, Thomas Jefferson assigned a young officer, later Colonel, Joseph Crockett to guard the widow and her two small children. Several years later, after the war’s end, Colonel Crockett returned and married the widow, Elizabeth. In 1784 they traveled from Virginia to an area south of Lexington, Kentucky with 4 year old Samuel Hughes Woodson in tow. The Woodson family book tells of Colonel Crockett’s love of Samuel, giving him a first class upbringing and education as well as a large amount of land. There must have been a strong bond between Samuel Woodson and his half siblings, the six Crockett children, as one of the Crockett grandchildren was named Samuel Woodson Price, a respected Civil War General, and another grandchild was named Joseph Tucker Henderson. This last grandchild was most likely named after his grandmother’s two husbands, and would reflect a closeness of the combined families. [4290, pp 1-2]