Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-16

OF domestic affairs. with the JOYS and sorrows
OF lie, since the attachment which sprang up
then has grown closer and stronger The two
distinguished ladies have always enjoyed mu-
tual confidence, and to-day are almost con-
stantly in each others society. Mrs. Hornsbv
IL native OF Somerset county. Pennsylvania
the
HOME OF HER DISTINGUISHED FATHER
In his earlier years. Her mother was daugh-
ter of Chauncey Forward. a Representative in
Congress for some years. and with whom her
future husband. Jeremiah S. Black, studied
law. She was also niece of judge Walter
Forward. President Tyler's Secretary of the
treasury and minister to Denmark. Miss
ReDekah Black became a pupil. at the age of
eleven, at the celebrated school of the Misses
PInneo. at Chambersburg, Pa. She finished
there at the age of fifteen. Between the wears
1857 and 1861, when her father was Attorney
General and Secretary of State, she frequently
visited Washington from school. and toward
the closing years of the administration made
her debut in the brilliant official society of that
day. Miss Lane took great interest in the
young debutante, friendship which has been
maintained ever since. A year after Miss Black
entered society she married
HER FATHERS PRIVATE SECRETARY,
James Findlay Skunk, then twenty-five years
OF age. He was the youngest son of Governor
Skunk and grandson of Governor Findlay, of
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Skunk was young man of
brilliant gifts and lawyer of unc ommon abil-
lty. In 1860 he succeeded Edwin NJ. Stanton
In the investigation of the California land
claims In their interests. He possessed re-
fined literary instinct which SO impressed
President Buchanan that he was selected by
him to be his biographer. Mr.. Skunk had
commenced the work, when he died Mrs
Jane Findlay Skunk now the wife of Robert
kennon Evans, Of the twelfth infantry, was the
daughter of this union.
During her husbands life Mrs. Skunk resided
with him i'll Washington. Harrisburg and Phil
adelphia, where his duties called him, and after
ms death made her home with her father at
his flne York county estate of Brockie There
surrounded by princely comforts. Mrs. Skunk,
in 1878, became the wife of Isham Henderson
Hornsby, OF Louisville. Kentucky.
THE HOME OF MR.. AND MRS. HoRSsBY
at Washington is one Of the most attractive at
the "West End of the capital. Mr.. Hornsbv
is lineal descendant of Isham Randolph one
Of the earliest members of the Dungepess
branch OF that historic family, who lived 1857
l742 and was member of the house OF bur-
gesses of Virginia and acknowledgement of the
colony: His great grandmother. Oh the mater
nal side was sister of Jane Randolph, the
mother OF Thomas Jefferson. His paternal
grandfather. Joseph Hornsby, was native of
England. After coming to Virginia he in
herited a large fortune, and became one of the
wealthiest men of the state. He married a
daughter OF DIR. Thomas Walker of Albemarle
county, Va, who was sent by the governor. in
1755, to explore Kentucky, then portion of the
Old Dominion. In 1876 Joseph Hornsby re-
moved to Kentucky, and entered 10000 acres
OF land in Shelby county, where some of the
descendants still live.
Isham II. Hornsby, educated as a lawyer,
some years ago abandoned his profession. hav-
ing realized an ample fortune in real estate.
He gave up his bachelor home i'm Kentucky
ana In Difference to his wife's preference made
ms residence IN Washington Mrs. Hornsb is
one of the most brilliant ladies of the social
NE OF the capital, representing as she does the
dignlhed elegance and easy grace of the dis
tinguished women of the capital during one of
its most interesting periods, and is now one of
the recognized social leaders in the most select
Circles. DEB. r. Il.
The CHICKAMAUaA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The subcommittee appointed at the recent
conference of Union and confederate veterans
who fought at Chickamauga to devise
means OF preserving and marking that battle
Held met yesterday for the purpose of taking
steps to procure a charter from the state Of