Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-19
Mrs. Olive Rose and Miss Fanny May

Mrs. Olive Rose and Miss Fanny May
Hupp.
| Mrs. Jane Blackburn Moran is
hostess for the Washing
ton-Lee box, appearing as Lady Anne
as her guests Mr.. Walter d. Davidge
as Gen. Washington; Mrs. Horace
Mcfarland as Mistress Dolly Madi-
son; MIR. Thomas Campbell Washing
ton as his great-uncle, Justice Bush
| rod Washington, favorite nephew Of
Gen. Washington; Elizabeth Holmes
Washington as his wife: Mrs. Allen
Washington as Hannah Lee, sis -er of
Richard Henry Lee, signer of the
Declaration of Independence; Mrs.
Emma Washington Baxter OF Phila-
delphia as her grandma other, Catherine
Thomas Blackburn, wife of Bushrod
! Corbin Washington, End. Four gen.
erations are represented in this box,
Sthe fourth being a child of 8, all
lineally descended from Augustine
Washington. brother of George Wash
ington, and Col. Thomas Blackburn,
Revolutionary hero; Mrs. Eliza beth
Washington Baldwin representing
young Betty Washington, sister of the
general, who married Fielding Lewis,
and whose family estate, Kenmore,
has recently been preserved and set
| apart as a shrine by the people OF
Fredericksburg, Va.
The James Monroe box has as
hostess Miss Maud Gouverneur, who
will appear as Mrs. Nicholas GouVer-
neur of New York, her direct ances-
| tor, and Mrs Rose Gouverneur Hoes,
| representing her great grandmother,
Maria Hester Monroe, the first White
House bride. Their guests Will be
Mrs. Harry Freeman Clarke, Miss
| Alice Hartman, Miss Florence But
Ter, Miss Fannie Wells. Mrs. Charles
w. Kennedy. Miss Margaret Doane
| of Montclair, N. j., and Lieut.. Gou-
verneur Hoes, L. S. A. who will APP
| pear as President James Monroe, his
great-great- grandfather, wearing the
| court dress worn by Monroe when
presented at the court of Napoleon,
| in 1903, at the time of the negotia-
tons in connection with the Louis
lana purchase, for which he was
President Jcffersons emissary.
Mrs. Richard Knickerbocker Tyler
will attend the ball, representing her
ancestress. Mrs. John Winthrop. wife
of the Colonial Governor of Massa
chusetts. and Miss Mary Maxwell, di-
rect descendant of Gen. William
Maxwell, who was one of the officers
to cross the Delaware with Gen
Washington prior to the battle OF
Princeton. will represent Mrs. Will
liam Maxwell, her ancestress. Mr.
William Bowie Clark will appear as
his ancestor. William Bowie, signer
of the Declaration of Freedom of
Men, at Annapolis, Md, prior TO the
Declaration of Independence. Mr..
Richard L. Stands will represent his
ancestor, Col. Francis Eppes. the
cavalier, who came to this country in
| 1885, was member Of the House Of
! Burgesses and received a grant os
| land on the James River from the
| King, and who was ancestor to
Thomas jefferson. Mrs. Aurelius
| Rives Stands will attend the ball as
| her ancestor. Frances Fowkc, who
parried Dr. Gustavus Brown.
In Madame Ekengren's box will be
! Capt. John +. Jackson, L. s. n, who
will represent his direct ancestor the
original Schuyler to come to America :;
| Col. Philip Pieter Sc Van Schuyler,
who arrived from Holland in l64S,
and was president of his majesty's
| council in the Province of New York
and commandant of the Fort of AL
bany. Mrs. Jackson will appear as
his wife, and both will dance in the