Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-02-27

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The identity of this 'Lowland Beau
ty,' who the object of Washing
toms first affections has been much lIE/eA@
disputed. Losing, the historian, pro-
nounced her Mary Bland, and some -
are inclined to the belief that she
a Miss Eilbeck, beauty of Charles
county, Maryland, who married George Mason
Others maintain that she Lucy Grymes, who
married Henry Lee and became the mother of
the famous Light Horse Harry" who
great favorite with Washington, and who
ferred to the commander in chief first in war;
first in peace and first in the hearts of his coun-
trymen-" Those who favor the Lucy Grymes
Identification point to the affection of Washing
ton for Light Horse Harry as a resultant of
the early love he entertained for Harrys mother
Others will have it that the "Lowland Beauty"
was Betsy Fauntleroy, and base their assertion
on letter written in May, 1852 by Washington
to the grandfather of Miss Fauntleroy, in which
he says, among other things, he purposed as soon
as he recovered his strength Che had been i'll
with pleur1sy) ito wait on Miss Betsy in hopes
of revocation of the former cruel sentence, and
if 1 meet with any alteration in my
favor
In 174S Washington became surveyor of Lord
Fairfax lands He then but sixteen In an
undated letter, probably written about the end of
1850, or the beginning of 1851, to his Dear
Friend Robin, POSSIBLY Robert Washington of
Chotauk. afectionately remembered in his WILD
we also find allusion to the 'Lowland Beauty"
My place of residence is at present at his lord
ships, where might, not my heart Olsen
gagged, my time very pleasantly, a very
agreeable young lady lives in the same house
pany with her revives my former passion for
your Lowland Beauty; whereas, were 1 to live
more retired from young Women, might, in some
measure, alleviate my sorrows by burying that
chaste and troublesome Passion in the grave of
oblivion of eternal forgetfulness.'
| History might have been different had Washing
ton been accepted by the "Lowland Beauty If
! the t'Lowland Beauty" was Betsy Fauntleroy-
| and good authorities think she was-she married
| Ebenezer Adams, progenitor of the Virginia fam
! lily of that name, and became the mother OF
| Thomas Adams, alumnus of William and Mary
| college, signer of the articles of confederation
| and member of the Philadelphia convention OTIS
1 1890.
The agreeable young lady" mentioned by
Washington in his letters from the Fairfax resi-
dence, Miss Mary Cary, the sister of Colonel
Fairfax wife He turned to her for consola-
ton and it seems her charm mitigated his "trou-
blesome passion" But Miss Cary had no genuine
| love for the ardent young In 1852 she mar
/ red Edward Amber.
after his wooing of the 'Lowland Beauty" he
had another charmer presumably member of
the family of Alexanders, who had plantation
near Mount Vernon
| Washington, while in Barbados with his sick
/ half-brother Lawrence Miss Roberts, who
exerted an influence over his tender heart and
to whom he refers IAN agreeable young lady"
1t would seem that nearly all the young ladies
were agreeable him. Miss Roberts, it ap-
pears the only one, however, who really cap
| tivated him in Barbados. While allowing that
| all the ladys generally agreeable, he notes
that by i'll custom they affect the negro style"
When returned from his first campaign and rest
ing at Mount vernon, the time seems TO have been
begued by some charmer. for one OF his inti-
mates writes from Williamsburg: Il imagine you
by this time plunged in the midst of delight
heaven afford and enchanted by charmers
| even stranger to the Orphan Dame" and foot
note by the hand only excites further Curl
osity concerning this latter parsonage by in
| definitely naming her Mrs Nell
1t is said that at time and another Wash
ington had half hundred sweethearts along the
banks of the Potomac the Rappahannock, and the
James, and up to the gates of Mount Yer
| non. Perhaps the number is exaggerated. but
at any rate we have but scant account OF most of
| the fair and not even told the names
OF the great majority. This we do know. that