1 NAME Major Harrison /Yewell/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC of Nelson Co., KY
From correspondence of Joleen Haskins Patrick Mobile Alabama
My father used to tell my sister's and I all the tales about his grandmother, Linda Elizabeth Ewell/Yewell Haskins (dau of Harrison and Sarah)---he said she wa a "spy" for the Confederates as a young girl!!! She would ride her horse across enemy lines taking ammunitio and maedical supplies which were sewn in the hems of her hug skirts to the Confederate troops probably her father or brothers and their friends since the fighting was so cole to their home. He said it would take 3 or 4 men to hoist her on her horse because her skirts were so heavy!!! She also mailed a "secret potion to a friend being held in a Federal prison camp up somewhere up north which made him break out like smallpox. Needless to say they released him from one of the several newpaper articles about her. So I'm sure with the family being so active during the Civil War harrison surely must have been in the Confederate States Army fighting along with his sons and daughter!!!
I do have a "coin" silver teaspoon engraved with HY which was part of a set of silver which the family buried during the Civil War. The set was given to Harrison and Sarah Yewell on their wedding day by his parents, Martin and Nancy Foreman Yewell/ewell. The hand written card which accompanies the spoon refers to both of them as "Hon" so I suppose they were both Judges? I guess the family split up the set in later years passing it on to family members. My father, an only child, gave the teaspoon to me before he passed away 27 years ago. I didn't have the foresight back than to ask him all the necessare questions.