Lot 903
Southern School, c. 1850, "Portrait of Elizabeth "Bodae" Davis Oliver Hagan (1831-1894), oil on canvas, 35 1/2 in. x 28 in., framed Provenance: Descended in an Alabama Family. Note: The sitter, daughter of Samuel White Oliver (1796-1838), an eleven-term Alabama State Representative, and Elizabeth Hunter (1809-1883), married Irish-born cotton merchant James Hagan (1822-1901) in 1854. The couple resided in Mobile and Hagan, who had volunteered for service in the Mexican War, earned the rank of C.S.A. Brigadier General during the Civil War. After the war ended, James and Elizabeth Hagan were left penniless, but Hagan soon found work managing a plantation on the Alabama River while Elizabeth raised their four sons. They returned to Mobile in the 1880s and stayed there until their respective deaths in 1894 and 1901.
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