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Mentioned in 18500310FMS_LMW, Frances makes social calls in Washington, D.C.
Jane Erwin Yeatman Bell was married to Tennessee Senator John Bell, who had been the Constitutional Union Party candidate for President of the United States in 1860. Very popular in Tennessee, his party had hoped to maintain the Union without challenging the institution of slavery. Her first husband, ironmaster Thomas Yeatman, had left her a wealthy widow upon his death in 1833. When war came to Tennessee, two of the Yeatman sons remained loyal Unionists, one served as an officer, the other appointed to head the Western Sanitary Commission. The younger son, Henry Clay Yeatman, who had married into the Polk family in Maury County, served as an aide to Confederate General Leonidas Polk.

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Mentioned in 18500310FMS_LMW, Frances makes social calls in Washington, D.C. Jane Erwin Yeatman Bell was married to Tennessee Senator John Bell, who had been the Constitutional Union Party candidate for President of the United States in 1860. Very popular in Tennessee, his party had hoped to maintain the Union without challenging the institution of slavery. Her first husband, ironmaster Thomas Yeatman, had left her a wealthy widow upon his death in 1833. When war came to Tennessee, two of the Yeatman sons remained loyal Unionists, one served as an officer, the other appointed to head the Western Sanitary Commission. The younger son, Henry Clay Yeatman, who had married into the Polk family in Maury County, served as an aide to Confederate General Leonidas Polk.
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Portrait of Jane Erwin Yeatman Bell
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