Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . liant talker, and writer and themost loyal of friends; finds time for club work in womensbest lines and is asocial prize in pubHc and private husband, PendletonColston, of Baltimore, diedwhen their two sons werealmost infants, the motherrearing them with , who marriedMiss Esther Turner, ofBladen, died childless someyears ago; his brother,Raphael Semmes Colston,married Miss Olive M. Tar-rant, of Georgia, is a notednewspaper man and pres-ent city editor of the Times-D^.mocrat. Kate Middleton Semmesthe second daughter of the^vikin
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . liant talker, and writer and themost loyal of friends; finds time for club work in womensbest lines and is asocial prize in pubHc and private husband, PendletonColston, of Baltimore, diedwhen their two sons werealmost infants, the motherrearing them with , who marriedMiss Esther Turner, ofBladen, died childless someyears ago; his brother,Raphael Semmes Colston,married Miss Olive M. Tar-rant, of Georgia, is a notednewspaper man and pres-ent city editor of the Times-D^.mocrat. Kate Middleton Semmesthe second daughter of the^viking, married GeneralLuke E. Wright, when hewas not dreaming of gov-ernorships, diplomacy orthe war portfolio. She haslong been a noted leader in the social world of Mem--phis and has illustrated American w^omanhood abroad,as able aide to her husband in three trying posts. TheWright family numbers five. The eldest sister, Anna,married John Watkins, after a brilliant belleship and is afactor in the Memphian society of today. Kathrina Mid-. MRS. CHARLES R. PALMER(kathrina WRIGHT) 348 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES dleton, the younger sister, married, at the American em-bassy at Tokio, Charles B. Palmer, now a banker in thePhilippines. Eldrige, the eldest son, married Miss MinniePettus; Luke E., Jr., is a society bachelor, and RaphaelSemmes recently wedded in the Philippines. Anna Elizabeth Semmes, the third sister, was as popularas the others with the uniformed youths who thronged theMobile home of the family in war-time. Soon thereaftershe married Charles B. Bryan, another Memphian of noteand has since been one of that citys most active and appre-ciated-workers in all feminine progress. Her sisters of theConfederate Daughters have honored her with high officein their national council and Governor Patterson selectedher as commissioner for the state to the Jamestown Expo-sition. There are two Bryan boys, Raphael Semmes, whomarried Miss Georgia Scott, and Charles Middleton, w
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