Identifier: bellesbeauxbrain00dele (find matches)
Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914
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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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etenessthat omits Misses Sally and Lucy Grattan. They werethe closest friends of the Daniel sisters early named; andfrom those two hospitablehomes, warmest and mostfrequent welcome went out tothe members. Brainywomen were all of them;and as womanly and genialas they were brilliant. Miss Sally Grattan mar-ried Otho G. Kean, aprominent young lawyer ofRichmond, who left her wid-owed long before the fullestripening of his life. He leftbesides the precious heritage of a name never spoken, even at this day, without the mrs. otho g. kean T J. i 1 • (SALLIE grattan) mmglmg oi regret and praise. She still resides in Richmond and has one son, William Grattan Kean. Miss Lucy Grattan married Major W. F. Alexander, ofWashington, Ga. He died but two years ago. Their daugh-ter, Elvira, is now the wife of Edmund Byrd Baxter, ofAugusta. The Grattans of war-time were children of Peachy Ridg-way Grattan and Jane Elwin; the husband having been re-porter of the court of appeals for over thirty years. Of
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212 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES his eleven children, only Mrs. Kean and her sister Elizabethsurvive. George Grattan was killed at Gettysburg. Rare, dry Trav Daniel; clever and comic Jimmie Pegram—who won gentle Lizzie Daniel for wife, only tolose her next year; Olivera Andrews and . Great the temptation—even though all the Mosaics werenot Solomons—to exclaim with her of Sheba: And behold,the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me.But even memory must draw reins, though spurred by thoughtof men and women who represented the Brain of Dixie, whileyet its beaux and belles. CHAPTER XVIII WITH SOCK AND BUSKIN All the ivorlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players is a never-trite truism of Shakespeare. The whole South was one great stage. From openingoverture at Sumter to final curtain at Appomattox, the menand women played in endless tragedy of battlefield and hos-pital, or in comedies of statecraft, intrigue and love-making.And there were plays

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