The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

' possessors of several handsome paintings
 One is descriptive of the latters own
 youth when, as Miss Lizzie Jonsie Evans
 Carolina. The two portraits which SC
 suitably adorn the walls of their splendid
 home--itself retrospective in It's manner
 of furnishing--represent Gen. and Mrs. Peter G. Evans. the former a general in
 the Confederate army. Mrs. Evans was Elizabeth Morehead, the daughter of Governor Morehead of North Carolina,
 whose portrait is also the possession of Birmingham resident Mrs. Theresa
 Hooper Evans. Governor Morehead, the founder of Morehead City, N. C., was
 the maternal grandfather of the late MT.
 Evans. His portrait was painted in Phil adelphia in the year 1S4o approximately. | by the artist Carl Brown. A beautiful old man he was, surely, when this portrait
 was made. the radiant sort of optimist that one likes for an ancestor.
 Miss Janet Heriot has some charming old portraits that are not at present in tinction which her sister has at present l in Charleston. One Is the portrait of
 Anna Gibbs. painted in the middle of the 18th century. Another is the portrait of William Heriot, the present owners grandfather, and the son-in-law of Anna Gibbs.
 A pastel portrait of an interesting per-
 sonality is that of Dr. William S. Mudd.
 The man is more interesting than the painting. which is said to be remark able likeness, while not extraordinary from an artistic viewpoint. Dr. Mudd was one of the original founders of Bir-
 mingham. He was the father of Mrs. Florence F.. Jordan. owner of the pastel portrait. from which the familiar steel engraving in Miss Armes' book, "The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama" was made. Dr. William Mudd Jordan, Dr. Mortimer Jordan, Mrs Fred Levert, Mir. William s. Mudd. Mrs. Hill Ferguson,
 Mrs. Robert Jcmison, Jr., MT. William
 Mudd Walker, MT. Joseph Walker. Mir. Joseph Mudd, Basil Clarke, Dr. Alfred Walker are among his grandchildren. Dr. Mudd came from Kentucky to Ala bama, moving to Birmingham after sev- | eral years residence in North Alabama | His bachelor brother, James A. Mudd, was the first to operate a coal mine in l the district, and met his death as a re- | suit of an injury to his head from a piece | of coal This occurred two years after l the accident; he underwent an operation performed by pr. Giles of Tuscaloosa-- | trephining-expertly done for those days,
 but his death followed nevertheless.
 l Dr. Mudd's first home was the present Dr. Smith home at Elyton, pointed out now as one of the early landmarks of the district. It was formerly center of hos | pitality, and much of the social history of Birmingham was enacted there. The crayon portrait of Dr. Mudd is of distinct historical value.
 | There is another portrait somewhat after this type among the relics belonging to Mrs. George c. Ball. A crayon por- l tFait somehow suggests a copy always. but this was one of the early paintings of Virginia and is an original It pie lures the great grandfather of the late Maj. George C. Ball--Mr Holmes of vir- lgipia. The crayon is wonderfully pre- served, though made very early in the 18th century. It was sketched upon pink paper and the name of the artist was long since lost.
 Of better type is the portrait of a lovely lady, Mrs Jack Glascock, a South Carolina beauty, and maternal grand mother of Mrs. George c. Ball. she ap- pears in the shortwaisted satin gown of the directoire days and her jewels are topazes and pearls. After the poetic fash ion of those days. cluster of fowerc i is caught in her hair. Visitors always note this beautiful example Of early art when in the Ball home. Noting the beauty of the lady. one heard a character
 istic remark from Mrs Ball: ''Yes, !
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