What happen to Elizabeth McGowan?

One of the last records found about Elizabeth show her getting a loan using her Broad River property as collateral. In one Columbia history book, Elizabeth was described as being a very wealthy woman mostly from her Broad River Bridge stock holdings and her Boarding house on the northwest corner of Gervais and Assembly streets. It's not clear why she would have been seeking a loan in 1832. In 1833, there are papers showing how she is trying to divide this same property into 3 parcels. Her son and daughter (Henry and Sarah) are also listed in this document as though they had something to do with the transaction. That's the last record we find on Elizabeth. We know she lived on the northeast corner of Assembly and Taylor and that her son would occupy that residence through the civil war. See the photo below that shows Columbia in 1872. The home old home of Elizabeth can be seen here. In the same photo, a Hotel now exists where her Boarding house stood (Library Of Congress: Bird's eye view of the city of Columbia, South Carolina 1872. Drawn and published by C. Drie.). Two living descendants of Elizabeth have done extensive genealogy work into her family but have found no information on her death. Since Elizabeth lived in the city and she appears in the 1830 census but not in the 1840, 1850, or 1860, I think it must be assumed that she died sometime between 1833 and 1840. Her church cemetery records were searched but nothing found for her or her husband Henry. Looking at the things we know about Elizabeth, I guess it should not be surprising that she made a quiet and humble exit. She lived a great life. She had the brains and heart to do things in a special way that none of her male contemporaries could match. Her son Henry would have three girls: Olivia McGowan, Henrietta McGowan, and Agnes E. McGowan. Olivia is the only image we have of the McGowan’s. (See this 1870s photo below. Much thanks to the Stanley family for this rare photo). Only Agnes McGowan would marry (to Jacob Hildebrand Hydrick) and have children. Today this Hydrick family is quite large although none seem to be in the Columbia area. Elizabeth's siblings and cousins (the Stanley's) would also have many descendants some of which are still in the Columbia area. The Stanley family is currently looking into the possibility that Henry McGowan (Jr.) had a son named Washington McGowan who may have carried on the McGowan name. I guess it's natural that the simple and humble people are the first to be forgotten over the generations. After all, there's no monuments to them. Their tombstone were small and simple, not made to last much longer than the lives of their own children. The history books fail to include them because they were not one of the powerful people of their time. It's sad to see it happen because we all know that these are the people that set the real meaningful examples in life. If you look really hard, though, and you get really lucky, you might find traces of them and learn how they lived their lives.