. MRS. LAVINIA CADY (HOWE) PERRY Born Jan. 2, 1831 ; Died Jan. 21, 1902 Wife of Alexander Perry of Bristol, R. I. and great-granddaughter of Mark Anthony De Wolf and of Cromwell Child. Tales of Silver Creek 91 her death that her sons offer of marriage was accepted. Evenif the young girl, only nineteen years old, had fully made up hermind, her mother was not ready to give her consent. She wasnot, however, so resolute and immovable as she had been in dis-couraging her daughters marriage to a Spanish lover. Shefrankly confessed that if
. MRS. LAVINIA CADY (HOWE) PERRY Born Jan. 2, 1831 ; Died Jan. 21, 1902 Wife of Alexander Perry of Bristol, R. I. and great-granddaughter of Mark Anthony De Wolf and of Cromwell Child. Tales of Silver Creek 91 her death that her sons offer of marriage was accepted. Evenif the young girl, only nineteen years old, had fully made up hermind, her mother was not ready to give her consent. She wasnot, however, so resolute and immovable as she had been in dis-couraging her daughters marriage to a Spanish lover. Shefrankly confessed that if she felt sure young Perry had inheritedhis fathers amiability she would readily consent, but she fearedthe DeWolf temperament, though some of her most intimatefriends were of that family, and she regarded Captain JamesDeWolf with great esteem. Others of the Bourn family, beingof more pronounced Puritan type, looked with much less favorupon the alliance. Julias aunt, Miss Betsy Bourn, would oftenrecount to us how the family at Silver Creek would watch fromthe windows to see Senator DeWolf pass on his way to Wash-ington in the old state family coach, drawn by four white horses.(This coach is still preserved by his great-grandnephew,
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