The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-19

III II er ~ /, dress. a simple white dtmity
In summer, had the az ornmellt of# per 9
feet nea tnessss and Miss .tlh 1s
atatsss IS aehd
she ran in from play wi TIL q soiled frock
on she was told e how her great grand
mother kept house for q week q q Mount
q single single spot Upon e.
TS As mahognnys desk al Tudor III ace, With
the stool belongin it was used BY Mr q.
her T: g, lie
tiers extant from W ton to herself !. she
having destroyed his letters q hort time,
before her deaf 1l.y II hey were beque thed
hersiYll and WI 4 !,
Etira ins$IVnshington'S chambero on the nlgh Y
upon which ho8 d led form d memorial OF
the closing scenes 8 hei Il. lives.
lustrates eyery phase domestic
and public career, q d witt the distin-5
gguished yfn.stress 81 lie mans on--;ithe lty-
Ing link lun.trlg lis VI Il tho historic past
SBeens It'd bring us nlrnost t. to the presence
Of Those who made It melnora BE.
jis3 Mrs. Kennon' 5 Career. Ss55s
II Mrs. Kennon, the child 8of one brought
born at Tudor place january i. ISIS,
/ among tile ivld IA recoll ections 81 her
childhood being the Wis Of ssI.afny ette to
her rents in 44.ss She was ed uoated at
theY tioIit ~: George
Ing ex-pnpil. md 9al5 feR year rs q 30, when
4the alumnae3 Of tlle; Institution wa = form
cd she was made the llonora ny presto t:
sig Is also The dent,, theA ged
Sthe nine original directresses ii Of the
Louise Home Il Iii YYnshing on, u and It he
pres dent .of It's Board Of Lady Managers
THE president OF the Society OF the Colon-
#ials Danes OF n the lstrict ana the hons
forary Vice president flor life) Of the N a.
tlonnl Society Of the oloninl DANES. Flor
marriage ito Comlnod orc Beverley Ken
lions Of "A the United States Navy, took
place Decent Der s. 1s42, ss In the drawing
groom, now so years old and a resident
OF Nor folk, " a., ~ who was one sol her
y bridcsmnids,S desert bling i the brilliant uc-
#casion and the recsptio ion which followed
$allstheS rest Of the notable company rank
the couples health In hlesfnl of wine
4 from ashfngton's cellar. III tJS
Mrs. kennon's brief N arried lfe,I spent
atSthe Wa shington Navy Yard terminated
4 Is months Ia ter In the ira 81 e death OF her
husband, who, with &Ssevcral Of the lner1l-
bers Or Tyler's Cab net. wa 8 xii Turing
a the spring Of 1874 BY the exp sion g {! q
turned 4 o Tudor Place, ~ here 4 she has
Since remained xcept for tho time spent
In Philadelphia, h when her DIT luz tier, Mar
tina ikennonis fterward the wi 70 of the
was at school there, \ and the first year
}of the Civil War, when tho family went
I South Since her dau ghter's Gcat tn a her
{; grandchildren have lived 81 Their vi tn her
I or near her. OF these Walter BISON
+ Peter, who Is an architect, with his part
5ner. " Mr.. M rsh, desi gned q the Evening
Star Building. ARMS cad Peter, fter an
sahscnc8 o Il eight years, lives lthl his
family III Washing on lib beverley Sennon
! Peter Is az member Of the Washington
tsbnr, Rev. Trlee!and Peter Is the assistant
att ST. VA Mark Is q Protestant Episcopal
Church inS that city and N iss "a gne " +
Tudor Place into Washington society d
Ii Copyright, 1905. by Gllbertn s.8Whittle3