Children
- Her son, Samuel Graves Powell, was a famous steamboat captain that operated on his ship, the Betty Powell, up and down the Brazos River. The ship was named for his wife, Elizabeth Sheppard, whom he married in Matagorda County.
- Her daughter, Julia Powell, was married to Charles Doane, who was an infamous police official in early San Francisco.
- Her daughter, Elizabeth, married Isaac McGary (and later divorced him), who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. Isaac's granddaughter (from his second wife), was instrumental in founding the University of Texas at Austin.
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Famous quotes containing the word children:
“Little children disturb your sleep, big ones your life.”
—Yiddish proverb.
“It’s likely that adults from the caveman on have created their own fantasies of what children ought to be like and naturally have been convinced that’s precisely how as children they themselves were.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
“If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another’s; if we feel, we would that another’s nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart’s best blood. This is Love.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)