The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

A little above medium height, with silvery hair and tapering fingers Mrs Hewitt impresses one at once with the fact of her aristocracy. Fof an aristocrat she certainly is, com ing as she does from a line of Eng llsh forbears of old Virginia and the Carolinas.
 Beneath the portraits of her ances- tors, seated in an antique rosewood chair, she talked interestingly of days when, as a girl, she rode horseback over broad and fertile meadows upon which today rests the then un- dreamed of city of Birmingham.
 Mrs Hewitt was Hattie Earle, daughter of Dr. Samuel Sidney Earle and Hattie Wright, the latter of Pen dleton. s. C.
 Dr. Earle and his wife were early pioneers to Jefferson county and to Elyton, he being the first physician in the community.
 The present colonial residence of the Paul Greenes and Miss Jamie Greene, on the South Ensley car line at Elyton, was the ancestral Earle home. The house has been remod- eled, but the main body was the orig inal one, and the 50o acres of pr. Earles old homestead are now known as Earle Place.
 The family connection was large, and the Earle children were cousins to the Mudds, the Porters, the Jor- dans, Walkers and others. Hattie Earle was a belle from the i beginning, not frolicsome, mis- chievous belle, but one of the queen ly type, composed, proud and just wee bit naughty. as often the belles of that day were, so sure were they of the potent power of their charms. Ard today, Mrs. Hattie Earle Hewitt carries her SC years proudly and gracefully. Unlike some belles, past and present, she was as popular with her own sex as with her masculine admirers, and served as bridesmaid in nine weddings of her various girl friends. E
 She was the seventh child in fam fly of 10 children, and any old colored nanny of the old south will tell YOU that the seventh child is surely and certainly born for good luck. Her sisters and brotherb were Florence, the wife of Judge William $. Mudd; John BayIess, Samuel. Jr., Thomas, James, Robert, Paul, who married Mary Greene; J. B. (Doke), Wnose wife was Elizabeth Martin, and sally who married Robert Greene, Thomas
 
 lives for the southland. Samuel, Jr.' married and lived in Texas and James died early.
 wear after year the daffodils wave their golden beauty in that olo- me ward. having sprung from the oris inaI bulbs of 90 years ago, ana tne long arms of the great old trees cast their protecting shade over Httie Acreat- great grandchildren or the hrss rarIe owner, In the hoary trunk oi be is imbedded the blade Of a nun.- ks knife, driven there by hoper.,
 youngest son. on the eve oI ns
 arture for the CIVIL war is' eo.He
 sweetheart that it would remain
 TO as reminder of his love ana
 ntv till his return. But hooer'
 Sle never came back.
 re Hattie Earle Hewitt was un-
 lilly talented, musically. 50 so-
 Fed was she in this art that her
 pr sent her, at the age or 1S' to
 eee in Tuscaloosa, with the spe-
 iniunction to her teachers, 10
 more attention to her musical eo-
 ation than to history and matne- atics. Her father purchased TOT hei 0e first piano ever brought 10 1el lrsen county. It was Shieh Hf the old-fa shioned square ,spe, ei.a ar created 2 inc community. as some Of the pi' reers had never seen ~ss" >spinnet before. r....t. s',,''', ,r.s in Tuscaloosa that Hatue 1-srto met and became enS7Beo 10 ]f~ Cgadius Harden FerkfnS srlon fsr cid and houored family ot tae e.as. Thcf~ wedding at the barle home. in Eiyton. was a s--iiiaas 1-- fair They returned te tHse-.ie - to live and there 1hesr trres ess i7.l - were horn. Earle. fferroee
 cf Charles Roeerts- sE- - Nf~e William c Mosz<1zFTy. -..h.- was feft a wsdcw vale t1SF -. .-.. ehIsdrsn- a1t rzs z~se- ,-os-s made Der hs@s ht 11rrA- 1ocea she later z-1-rzr1 70 fzst - rol coldsuIfh vhltehcsss H-~it~ lawyer and pciitteiAn- A.. ' reio,ei and Mrz Hewitt mp~ee tn tpvton and later. fn aflt, caUe intp inc hustiing young town or h4rInl a, ns . ham. their residences ee.ng oa me nresent location of the fsrst odist church soon Alters @-se. Hewitt purchased the corne- CT flitn sver,,e and Twenty-first street ana h,,iIt fhe home in which their enia- drsr were born, and in which they i;ved until after his death and the exodus of the old residents or the north side to the rapidly growing South Highlands
 Colonel and Mrs Hewitt enter tained lavishiy. and Mrs Hewitt mas nleasant memories of the social hle ef early Birmin gham- She was suest at the famous Calico bah, ana in the cotillion she and her hsle girls. Florence and Sophy, danced Tn the same set.
 colonel Hewitt was senior partner in inc old law firm. Hewitt. Walker S Porter.
 The children of Coionea and Mrs Hewitt are Nora. wife of Hon. Will liams Fitts, attorney of Now York. and Hattie, now Mrs Hampton ;. Smith.
 Colonel Hewitt was man or keen and brilliant intellect and oesioes serving his state in office. was Tor eight years member of Congress And so Mrs. Hewitt spent many happy winters. in Washington where sne could enjoy to her hearts content the best music of the day.
 The love of flowers has always been a passion with Mrs- Hewitt, and each year Colonel Hewitt would send