Graves of Amanda and Her Sister Ann

Ann Eliza Pogue Garrison

1808 - 1838

Hannah Amanda Pogue was 11 years old when her father Robert came to Ohio in 1812 and built Fort Amanda. While her daddy was away in Ohio, it was her job to look after her younger siblings including her 3 year old baby sister; Ann Eliza. The two girls grew up together on a large plantation near Mayslick, Kentucky.

Ann Eliza was 19 years old when her older sister Amanda died on New Years Day, January 1, 1827. Two years later on June 23, 1829, four days after her 21st birthday, Ann Eliza married 32 year old Rev. Samuel Young Garrison.

Garrison an ordained minister was born in Mallard Creek, Mecklenburg, County, North Carolina in 1797, son of Samuel and Esther Garrison. Ann Eliza and Samuel lived their lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky where they had 4 children,

1. Robert Alexander Garrison b. 1830 named after her father (Robert) and her maternal grandmothers maiden name, (Alexander) and

2. Samuel Hopkins b. 1834 (named after his father (Samuel) and his maternal grandmothers maiden name (Hopkins).

3. John C. b. 1837

4. Gideon B. b.1838

On Wednesday, October 10, 1838, thirty year old Ann Eliza died. Indications are that she may have either died during or as a result of childbirth as her youngest son Gideon was born that same year.
Her sons went on to serve the south during the civil war and one became a high school principal.

Her widow Samuel went on to remarry a woman named Celia Mitchell. Samuel died in 1881 and Both he and Celia are buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky

The stone is carved in script.

Epitaph

To the Memory of Mrs. Ann Eliza Garrison who departed this life Oct. 10, 1838
Beneath this tomb of faithful trust
Lies the remains of Eliza’s dust
Called by God to us most dear
Joyful she quit this dusty sphere
She bid to us a short farewell
Then rose to glory with Christ to dwell
In Heaven she lives where Jesus reigns
Happy and blessed in all those plains
And from the portals of the skies
Invites us ever upwards rise
To enjoy the bliss of heavenly love
Bestowed by Christ on all above
Then radiant saint enjoy thy rest
With saints and angels ever blessed
Till we shall join thy blessed employ
in that eternal world of joy
Keep her dear dust though sacred tomb
In sacred slumbers till Gabriel comes
And wakes with trump her sleeping clay
to join the triumphs of that day.

A Mother Weeps

Hearing the term "life was hard on the frontier," brings on a new meaning when you consider that on the day Jane Pogue buried her daughter Ann Eliza, who had already buried her husband and 6 of her other children and now she was burying her 7th child. By the time Jane died (1846) she had outlived all but 1 of her children.
Some dying in childbirth and others by either accident or disease. Only one, William Lindsay Pogue outlived his mother and died of natural causes in 1881 at the age of 87.

1800 Amy
1804 Robert (twin of Jane Isabella)
1827 Hannah Amanda
1827 Jane Isabella. (Twin of Robert)
1833 Husband Robert
1836 Robert
1836 John
1838 Ann Eliza.

Ann Eliza Pogue Garrison was buried beside her sister Amanda in the Pogue family cemetery near Mayslick, Kentucky. It all seems fitting that the two little girls who were inseparable in life during the darkest of days should rest beside each other for the remainder of them.

Ann Eliza Pogue Garrison

1808 - 1838

Hannah Amanda Pogue McDowell

1801 - 1827