The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-13
new ROMANCE FOR
A RICHMOND GIRL
Mrs. Samuel Chauncey, Nee
Alice Carr, WEEDS Fam
Gus English Soldier.

Richmond society people are bust
ly discussing the marriage, week be-
fore last in London, of Mrs. Samuel
Sloan Chauncey, nee Alice Carr, for
merly of this city, although it is stat
ed, she does not admit this fact now,
to General Cecil Bingham, one of
England's most distinguished sol
diers.
The romance connected with the
beautiful Carr girls, Alice and Grace,
is a favorite topic with Richmond peo-
pie who remember them.
After the death of Col. Montgomery
Carr of Louisville. Ky. who served
with distinguished bravery in the I'm
ion army during the civil war, the late
Capt. Lee Yaryan. a comrade of Col.
Carr, induced Mrs. Carr to move to
Richmond with her two daughters,
as her income was not great and he
believed she could live with less eX-
pense in Richmond than in Louisville.
The two Carr. girls were toast of the
toNh uhi thSs I'll H. vi 5uII-
ors, but Mrs. Carr. it is said, had de-
termined to have her daughters make
distinguished alliances, so with the
Misses Alice and Grace she went to
Florida. and Immediately Samuel
Chauncey, a wealthy New York man.
fell in love with Miss Alice and mar
ried her. A short time later he died.
leaving it is said, an estate of half
million dollars. Mrs. Chauncey. her
mother and her sister Grace, some
time after Mr.. Chauncey's death
went to England. and the two beauti-
full American girls created Juror
and were admitted 10 the most eNclus.
i've circles of English society. Miss
Grace was married 70 Lord Newbor-
ough and her marriage It is said is a
most happy one. Speaking of Mrs
Chauncey's second matrimonial vent
ure last weeks issue of New York
Town Topics says:
Town Topics Gossip.
Mrs. Samuel Sloan Chauncey's
marriage in London last week to Gen
eral Cecil Bingham, was not an entire
surprise to her friends here, as it was
well known that the fair Alice had
been keeping the elderly "Cis" as he
is best known on the tenterhooks 70,
some time. 1T did require courage
and a lot of love after ALL" as one OF
Mrs. Chauncey's women friends re
marked, for Alice to take widowel
of over fifty. with two grown sons
the elder of whom has just become en-
gagged to Miss Dorothy Pratt, a fail
young Englishwoman "of the North,
as was Miss Lowther, the fancee o.
James Wolfe in The Virginians.'
In some ways Mrs. Chauncey ha:
been the most successful of American
women who have waged a social cam
paign in England of late years. She
has succeeded in keeping even hel
women friends, constantly increasing
her circle of valuable and useful &C
quaintances and disarming the scan
dial mongers and gossips by her franl
manner and open life. Although from
Louisville, Mrs. Chauncey, through
her marriage when still very young Il
the late Sam Chauncey of this city
has always been considered a New
Yorker. Her father was Col Mont
gomery Carr of Louisville. and sh,
was considered a beauty there as /;
girl, which means much in city not
ed for it's beautiful girls. notice tina
she was given away by her brother-in
law. Lord Marlborough. who has al
ways been devoted to her and I,
whose popularity, for he is good fel
low. much of his wife's and sister-in
laws standing in English society i
due.