Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ivedat Jordons, Prince George and Causons, City Point. Theelder married Miss Poythress and left the popular twelvechildren; the junior married Miss Boiling, of Pocahontas,and left one son, Theodoric, and five daughters. Theymarried into the Bannister, Ruffin, Eaton, Haynes andRandolph of Roanoke families. This Mrs. Randolph is theone who later married St. George Tucker. Her brother,Theodoric, 2d, was lieutenant of the county and clerk of thehouse of burgesses, and thethird Theodoric was a doctorin England. He returned,however, distinguished him-self in th
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ivedat Jordons, Prince George and Causons, City Point. Theelder married Miss Poythress and left the popular twelvechildren; the junior married Miss Boiling, of Pocahontas,and left one son, Theodoric, and five daughters. Theymarried into the Bannister, Ruffin, Eaton, Haynes andRandolph of Roanoke families. This Mrs. Randolph is theone who later married St. George Tucker. Her brother,Theodoric, 2d, was lieutenant of the county and clerk of thehouse of burgesses, and thethird Theodoric was a doctorin England. He returned,however, distinguished him-self in the Revolution andbecame an intimate and fa-vorite of Washington. Im-portant in the family was alsoGiles Bland, gallant victorof Bacons rebelHon. All memory of these statelyold homes and of the men who mrs. alfred l. rives of castle hillmade them gleams soft, but warm, with the comeliness and courtliness of their daintywomen. Much of all that life has been reflected down the lateryears, through the ante-bellum country seats of wealthier. 30 BELLES, BEAUX AND BEAINS OF THE SIXTIES planters on the James and the Rappahannock, Westover,Brandon, Castle Hill and others, known to the borders ofthe Union. At these were entertained many distinguished guests fromabroad as well as from our own side of the water. Theirhouse parties at shooting season and Christmas, their rarewelcome, rarer wines and rarest hospitality, have gone sound-ing down the aisles of sociality and gastronomy. Todaymany of the old homes have fallen into memories only. Their home seats were replicas of those of the burgessdays, where not the very houses—often scarce modernizedout of that old-time grandeur and elegance that shone un-impaired up to the days when the sons of Light Horse Harry,of the Montfords, Latanes—changed pumps for riding-boots and threw their swords into the number-tipped scalesof war, for country and for name. It was heredity that spurred the Ashbys and Peytons andthe Carters and Harrisons to the
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