Maude Jeannie Fuller Young (1826-1882) was an author, teacher, and botanist in Texas. She was born Matilda Jane in Beaufort, North Carolina, moved to Alabama in 1839 and Houston, Texas in 1843. She married Samuel O. Young and had a son, S.O. Her husband died nine months after nine months of marriage and she lived with her family for the rest of her life. She wrote poems, fiction, and essays, including inspirational writings for Confederates, using pseudonyms such as "The Confederate Lady" and "The Soldier's Friend." She sewed a flag for Hood's Texas Brigade which was the Brigade's official flag at Gettysburg. In addition to her fiction, she wrote about botany and the natural world, authoring the first textbook on Texas botany and serving as state botanist from 1872 to 1873.