Elizabeth Parvin

Elizabeth was born about 1825 in , Hawkins, Tennessee.  Elizabeth's father was Ephraim Parvin and her mother was Maria Carden. She had six brothers and five sisters, named Thomas, Augustus, Christopher, Isaac, Lafayette, Joseph, Jane, Sarah, Amanda, Margaret and Melvina.  She was the third oldest of the twelve children. She had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Henry L., Orville and Margaret.