Mrs. Lizzie Goode - Confederate Spy
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sloan Redwood Goode
Birth: March 11, 1845, Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri
Death: May 25, 1843, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Age: 98 years, 2 months, 13 days
Burial: Oak Cliff Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Lizze was the daughter of Dr. George E. Redwood and Mary Morton. At the age of 26 Lizzie married Samuel Baskerville Goode in Lauderdale, Mississippi. They had 7 children, Mary Jordon, George Jr., Alice Browne, Lila R., Bessie M., Sarah King, and Martha. By 1900 the couple had moved to 510 Sunset Avenue. Their home still stands today. After the death of her husband in 1916, Lizzie moved to 318 S. Montclair with her daughter Bessie and son-in-law Albert T. Layton.
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The following article appeared in the Dallas Daily Time Herald on June 11, 1937
" Jackson, Miss., June 11 (AP). -- A spry, diminutive 94-year-old Texas woman, war-time spy and aide to President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, was Jackson's No. 1 woman visitor at the forty-seventh annual reunion of the United Confederate Verterans today.
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Her name : Mrs. Lizzie Redwood Goode of Dallas.
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'Yes, I was a spy," She says. "I'm proud I was and would do it over again," she said haughtily.
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Not only was Mrs. Goode a spy, but was also, she was captured while smuggling uniforms through federal lines. She was pardoned by President Lincoln and the two became fast friends and carried on a correspondence for several years, she said.
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Mrs. Goode said she was also an intimate friend of President Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee."
Mrs. Good died at her daughter's home on Montclair of old age and is buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery next to her husband.
Photo Courtesy of Michael Swift at Find A Grave
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