Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ceful and vi-vacious, both were soughtand admired by the choicefellows of the best set; butneither hauled down herparticular flag of independ-ence, until the more gen-eral surrender. Then Lou Fisher took his parole from a capture HI IIMfilllHHAlIk from over the border. She m ? BnrailinHKH«& married Howard Crittenden, .^H^^wHllll^^nuHL^. a native of Kentucky but residing in California. Theywent to Texas and, scarcelya year after her marriage, the Richmond belle was runover at Galveston, by some vehicle, and died almostimmediately. The fact of her death was


Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ceful and vi-vacious, both were soughtand admired by the choicefellows of the best set; butneither hauled down herparticular flag of independ-ence, until the more gen-eral surrender. Then Lou Fisher took his parole from a capture HI IIMfilllHHAlIk from over the border. She m ? BnrailinHKH«& married Howard Crittenden, .^H^^wHllll^^nuHL^. a native of Kentucky but residing in California. Theywent to Texas and, scarcelya year after her marriage, the Richmond belle was runover at Galveston, by some vehicle, and died almostimmediately. The fact of her death was unknown to mostof her old friends, and it is doubtful if any of them know thedetails. The pressure of those times scattered the mole-cules of the old set, and almost every one was absorbedin individual cares. Molly, as Miss Mary Fisher was ever known, was asmuch admired and widely popular as her sister Lucy. Verylately, an old time beau of hers wrote me, out of his multi-tudinous grandfatherhood: She had httle ways of her mrs. howard crittenden(lou fisher) BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 155 and was the best natured girl in all Virginia! She marriedMark Valentine, of Louisiana; the pair moved to Little Rock,Ark., and there resided long, with their one son, Mark Valen-tine, Jr. The memories of these fair and gentle girls is still green;as is that of their beautiful cousin. But second to none—not even to her cousins—in the racefor the golden apple, was Miss Anne Fisher. She was thedaughter of George Daniel Fisher, of Richmond, and Eliza-beth Ganigues Higginbotham, of Albemarle. Mr. Fisherwrote the book on the Descendants of Jacquelin pair had two sons and two daughters: Robert, Edward,Anne and Mary. The last is the sole survivor and is thewidow of Col. Pejrton Randolph, residing at Amherst, Va. Miss Anne Fisher marriedafter the war Mr. RobertCamp, of Norfolk. Of thisunion came a boy and agirl, the latter named forher mother. She is nowMrs. John Can


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