Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . escent, direct fromMildred, daughter of Col-onel Francis Thorton, whomarried Colonel CharlesWashington, younger broth-er of George WashingtonShe was Miss MarthaStuart Thorton, of Mont-pelier, Rappahannockcounty. Of this marriage there came to the young couple a son, Thorton, and a daughter, Elise. Constant to the old soldier as his colonel skinner at 16 shadow was this girl, who (miniature owned by lafayette) made even strangers friends by the frank and sunny nature thatcombined daughter, nurse and comrade in one. When he wasstricken down this grand girl
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . escent, direct fromMildred, daughter of Col-onel Francis Thorton, whomarried Colonel CharlesWashington, younger broth-er of George WashingtonShe was Miss MarthaStuart Thorton, of Mont-pelier, Rappahannockcounty. Of this marriage there came to the young couple a son, Thorton, and a daughter, Elise. Constant to the old soldier as his colonel skinner at 16 shadow was this girl, who (miniature owned by lafayette) made even strangers friends by the frank and sunny nature thatcombined daughter, nurse and comrade in one. When he wasstricken down this grand girl took him from the field,watched every fluttering phase of the long struggle twixtlife and death, and literally brought him back from theborder. Hear her own words: I cannot understand how you got such a likeness. Hadyou ever heard of our terrible ride, when we were takinghim from the battlefield and were more afraid of a hem-orrhage from the artery than of the Yankees, who weregoing from house to house, near Manassas, making prisoners. 250 BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES of wounded officers? From that we were fleeing. When partial peace came and with it partial recovery for the father, the daughter married a young Alabama soldier, Thomas Tileston had two children andremoved to New York,where she educated themand a number of youngladies now notable in thegreat citys society. At thisperiod Colonel Skinner livedwith his daughter, havinggone into journalism in hisfathers way. He was writ-ing agricultural and sportingnotes for the press when hedied. Popular and belovedby old and young, thepress published a memoir ofhim, and N. P. Willis wrote MKS. ISOBEL GREENE PECKHAM in thc HOMe JOUmol thc (LONDON EXHIBITION PORTRAIT) /> 1 • t-» • T c story of his Pans life atthe court of Louis Philippe. Mrs. Greene had good cause to be proud of her two chil-dren. The son, Frederick Stuart Greene, is a graduate ofthe V. M. I., and is now a civil engineer in New
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