Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tering-places; but convalescent young heroes and droppers-in returning from brief fur-loughs prevented utter stag-nation of sentiment. Espe-cial prizes were men notablein society for marked traits,as Jim Frazer, the hand-somest man in the army: sowritten down in a delicatebut faded flirtation ran itslength; and more than one(engagement for three yearsor the war, became a real-ity before it matured. Onespecial case attracted muchcomment then and is stillrecalled. Mr. I. I. Jones, a prosperous merchant of Mobile, discount-ed Jepthah of
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tering-places; but convalescent young heroes and droppers-in returning from brief fur-loughs prevented utter stag-nation of sentiment. Espe-cial prizes were men notablein society for marked traits,as Jim Frazer, the hand-somest man in the army: sowritten down in a delicatebut faded flirtation ran itslength; and more than one(engagement for three yearsor the war, became a real-ity before it matured. Onespecial case attracted muchcomment then and is stillrecalled. Mr. I. I. Jones, a prosperous merchant of Mobile, discount-ed Jepthah of old and, in the language of the green cloth,went him five better. A man of sense, as well as of taste,he educated his sextette of daughters under his own eyeand kept it jealously upon them. They had singular una-nimity of beauty; all being gifted with the peculiar charmsof form and face and voice that mark the highbred Hebrewmaiden. Sarah, the eldest, is now Mrs. Louis L. Morrison,of New York, and has a notable family: Mr. L. L. Mor-. CAPTAIN JAMES FRAZER 404 BELLES, BEAUX AND BSAINS OF THE SIXTIES rison, Jr., being a prominent lawyer of that city. The second,Juha, married Mr. J. K. Cobin, of the same city. Theirdaughter, Miss Rosahnd, a brilhant and most sought mu-sician, is now Mrs. Ransom Wright, of Augusta, Ga., and theonly son, Mr. I. Jones Cobin, coincidently wedded the mostnoted and popular of Mobile musicians, Miss Julia now reside in Brooklyn. The third of the Jones sisters, Adelaide, married and diedlong since, as did her children; and the fourth, Emily, becamewife of a famous rabbi of New Orleans, Rev. James K. Gut-heim. She was prime mover in the great Touro Infirmary,of that city. Her funeral, a few years after that, was par-ticipated in by clergy of all denominations; over ten thousandpeople of all classes and van-loads of floral devices, makingit a sort of mortuary carnival. The fifth sister. BerthaJones, married Major Thomas P. Brown, one of the
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