Ella Maude Gover was born on 15 Mar 1868
in Cherokee County, Texas and died in Boerne, Kendall, Texas on 21 Mar 1917. She
was the daughter of Samuel Banks Gover and Jane Wesley Elrod Gover
(1828 - 1885).
On 27 May 1884
she married John Thomas Short in Boerne, Kendall, Texas.