[1] Andrew Johnson, who had grown up quite poor and had received a minimal education, made a point to send his children to good schools.

[5] During the first autumn of the American Civil War, Stover participated in a guerrilla warfare action called the East Tennessee bridge burnings.

[6] The November 8, 1861 bridge burning was carried out with the approval of Union leaders, including Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and was supposed to clear the way for the occupation of East Tennessee by federal forces.

[7] However, the United States Army did not come marching in to East Tennessee, and Confederate Secretary of War Judah Benjamin ordered that any captured bridge burners be put to death.

[9] Amidst the ongoing conflict, Daniel Stover remained in hiding in the wilderness through the cold and wet winter of 1861–62, while Eliza McCardle Johnson and her youngest son Frank lived with Mary and her children in Carter County.

[10] Mary Stover and her mother Eliza Johnson prepared daily baskets of provisions, baking countless loaves of bread and turning the farm's hogs and beeves into hams and ribs, for the men in the hills and their distressed families elsewhere in the county.

[11] Per Holloway's 1871 Ladies of the White House, "Most of the men who were with Mr. Stover were poor, and their families, left to the mercy of their enemies, would have starved, had it not been for the care and generosity of Mrs.

Among other things, an 1868 birthday party for Andrew Johnson, which was organized by the grandchildren, was one of only two times that Eliza McCardle ever appeared at a public event during her husband's presidency.

At seven o'clock Professor Marini,[23] dancing master, marshalled the children in the long hall and arranged them in couples, after which, the grand promenade commenced, led by a son of General Eastman[c] and Miss Lily Stover.

The promenade was succeeded in regular order by the following programme: Second, quadrille, Faust; third, polka, Von Bilse; fourth, schottische, Weverein; fifth, Lanciers, Weingarten; sixth, gallop, John Strauss; Intermission.

¶ During the intermission, the juveniles were ushered into the spacious State Dining Room, where a magnificent table, loaded down with cakes, fruits, confectionery, and flowers, and splendidly decorated under the able management of Steward [James L.] Thomas,[24] awaited them.

The happy party at once proceeded to do full justice to the good things provided, and for an hour that room contained the merriest throng ever assembled around that festive board.

[25] Mary Stover also left the White House in the capable hands of her sister toward the end of her father's term, leaving early to return to Tennessee and set up a household for herself, her children and her ailing mother.

[37] As a single mother, Stover prospered financially, acquiring land in Tennessee and Texas, and profiting from her inherited share of the Holston Cotton Mills in Bluff City.

"[49] Lillie Stover died in November 1892 at age 37, from consumption, which has been "so fatal in the Johnson family"[49] at the East Tennessee Tuberculosis Sanatorium, where she had been hospitalized since January.

He became an avid outdoorsman, spent time learning skills from Native Americans at a property his mother owned in Texas, and ultimately became a mountain hermit.

He was legally under the guardianship of lawyers in Greeneville but lived independently alone in a hut for decades, only coming down from the mountain (against his better judgment) when his guardians insisted that it was going to snow.