The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-18
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whose sister Sarah was the wife of George
w. Fairfax. She married Edward Amber.
The Amblers were Of the prominent fami-
lies of Virginia. Bishop Meade, In his "OId
Churches and Families OF Virginia" claims
that Washington became the ardent adj
mirer of Mary Cary and was refused The
letters in the book do not support this
claim. There was evidently some one else
who had made a strong impression upon
young Washington Washington Irving, In
his Life Of Washington" took the view
that the Lowland Beauty was Miss Lucy
Grymes, of Westmoreland. Lucy Grymes
married Henry Lee IN 1853, about four
years after these letters were drafted by
Washington. OF this union came Light
Horse Harry" Lee, Of revolutionary fame,
from whom descended Robert II. Lee, the
Confederate general, and that iliustrious
family. II is a singular fact that Light
Horse Harry Lee, and Thomas Posey, OF
mysterious origin, were the closest OF per'
sonal friends Preserved among the pa
pers OF Gen. Posey Is a letter from Light
Horse Harry in which the writer, referr-
ing to a parting that was near because OF
Gen. Poscy's appointment to be briga-
der general in the army, and his prospec-
tive departure TO the Indian war, uses this
strong language
whatever you may do, or wherever you
may 20, my prayers for health, honor and
prosperity viii ever attend you, of which
| hope to be occasionally advised by you.
Light Horse Harry Lee wrote an ac-
count of military operations in the south
during the revolution. When the DOCK
was out he received from Gen. Posey some
memoranda differing somewhat from
statements made In the book, or at least
putting certain movements In different
light. Gen. Lee acknowledged the re-
ccipt of the memoranda and said that II
there was a subsequent edition ne would
INCORPORATE the corrections made by Gen.
Posey. He did not get out another edi-
lion, but left the Posey memoranda to
his family with instructions to make the
use of them he had intended. Robert %.
Lee many years afterwards republished
the book He carried out the authors In
structons. In doing so he spoke OF Gen.
Posey as "a man whose veracity was as
undoubted as his courage
Some recent writers have claimed that
the lady in Washington's case was Betsy
Fauntleroy Of Fredericksburg. II has
even been asserted that a letter from
Washington avowing his love was for
long time in the possession OF the Faunt-
leroy family. Betsy, according to this
story. refused the offer of marriage made
to her
But none OF these theories will account
for the Dear Sally" There was a Sally
Grymes, a relative Of Lucy Grymee, to
whom most recently have been attributed
the Identity Of the Lowiand Beauty. Old
David Forbes, the greatest living authori-
ty upon Virginia genealogies was asked
of late date:
'Who was Sally Grymes?"
"saly Grymes," he replied, was the
first sweetheart of George Washington"
That was all Mr.. Forbes could tell. In
the voluminous data about the Grymes
family OF Virginia there is not one word
to tell what become Of Sally Grymes.
The win Of the father of Lucy Grymes
was recently obtained from the records
in Virginia. II makes mention of the
children and distrlbutes the estate nmon.