(1830–1867)
“The other was Elizabeth Hodges, then in her fourteenth year, well grown, self-reliant, mature in thought beyond her years, but strictly holding the school-girl’s place to her sisters’ role of “young lady” daughter. She was not blonde like her father and her two older sisters. Her features were distinct, presenting classic lines. Her eyes, of light hazel hue, were full prominent and bright. In person she was then, and ever after, slighter than her sisters. She was a shade taller than her sister Jane, but not so tall as her oldest sister then was, or as a younger sister grew to be and is now. Her hair was black and very curly. She wore it in curls about her neck more bewitchingly.
My father’s family [David McCormick] and Mr. Cayce’s were very intimate from the time of his settlement on the Bernard. In December, 1845, his daughter [Elizabeth “Eliza”] Jane married Gustavus Adolphus Bertrand. As already stated, in August, 1847, his daughter, Elizabeth Hodges, married Thaddeus (Thaddus) Constantine Bell.”
McCormick, Andrew Phelps (1897) From Chapter 5 “Scotch-Irish in America“
NOTE: Elizabeth is buried here but Thaddeus (Thaddus) Bell is buried in the Morse-Bragg (Pleasant Bend) Cemetery near the River Oaks Subdivision in Houston per research by Dan M. Worrall, July 5, 2015, application for Harris County Historical Marker.
