Granddaughter of Mary Sidney Ashe (c. 1792-1855), and a descendant of John Ashe (1760-1818), a wealthy South Carolina planter whose portrait attributed to Gilbert Stuart is now in the NGA (1942.8.12); she had a sister Harriett Ann (Mrs. David Doar, 1845-1879). Jane Elizabeth Gadsden married Stephen Decatur Doar. [Compiled from sources and references recorded on CMS]