Boston Home Journal

November 8, 1902

Sibby Ann Graham Padgett

Mrs. Sibby A. Padgett, who recently died almost unnoticed, always claimed to be the Betsy Ross of the Confederacy. She made the flag that was the indirect cause of the death of Lincoln's hot-headed friend, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. The Flag was made at the request of James Jackson, proprietor of a hotel in Alexandria Virginia, and when it was done Jackson had it raised over his hotel. Ellsworth demanded that it come down and went up and got it. As he was coming down stairs with it Jackson shot him. The weapon is on exhibition in the National Museum and rather oddly a sister of Jackson's keeps a boarding house near the Museum.

Sibby A. Padgett, Tales of the Town, by David Converse, Boston Home Journal, An Illustrated Paper of Society and Travel Vol. 58, No. 45, Saturday November 08, 1902, Page 5.