One of Sophia's first beaus, who was later a Governor of Kentucky, wrote that she was probably the most brilliant mind he had ever known. Her son Albert Taylor Bledsoe writes the same type of thing. Her granddaughter wrote "She was not at all handsome, lacked imagination and was entirely wanting in a sense of humor; but she had a masculine intellect, a keen sense of justice, a courage which was heroic and an invincible will for the right. She became a devout Christian of quite modern type; full of charity and love and self-forgetfulness." (www.owsleytidepool.org)
