Evening star., 1936-01-05
Mrs. Crockett Hostess
At Tea in Alexandria
Miss Julia Ward Cruikshank, Bride-Elect
and Miss Katherine Greer, Visitor
From Vermont Honored.

Mrs. Joseph P. Crockett entertained
at large reception and tea Friday
afternoon, December 81, in honor Of
Miss Julia Ward Cruikshank. daugh-
ter of Mrs. Harrison CruikShank. and
Miss Katherine Greer of Newbury,
VT, who is spending the Winter with
her cousins, Senator and Mrs. Henry
Wilder Keyes. The house occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Crockett is a very old
one and was restored few years ago
to its Colonial condition. Assisting
Mrs. Crockett were Mrs. Keyes. Mrs.
Cruikshank, Miss Virginia Fleming
Dickins of Washington. Mrs. Frank
Mason billiard. Mrs. Joseph Scott
Blackwell, jr.; Miss Mary Earle Tay-
lor, Miss Frank Wood Smoot and Miss
Sara Carter.
Miss Cruikshank's engagement to
Mr.. william Baird McIlwaine, Sd,
was announced by her mother earlier
last week. The bride-elec Is the
daughter of the late Mr.. Harrison
Cruikshank of Maryland and is a
great-granddaughter on the maternal
side of Gen. Dabney Herndon Maury
of the Confederate Army. Gen. Maury
was nephew of Commodore Matthew
Fontaine Maury, U. S. NJ. the famous
photographer, who is called the Path
finder of the Sea, and was q descend.
ant of Matthew Maury. Huguenot ref
ugee who fled from France after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
came to Virginia in TIT and married
Mary Anne de la Fontaine. daughter
of a Huguenot minister, Rev. Jacques
de la Fontaine. Miss Cruikshank at
tended the Holton- Arms School In
Washington.
Mr.. McIlwaine is the son of the
Rev. DR.. William B. McIlwaine, jr.,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church in this city, and Mrs. Nell
waine. He is a graduate of Hampden-
Sidney College. and also comes of dis
tinguished Virginia and North Caro-
lima lineage. Among his forebears
were John West, brother Of Lord de la
War; and Governor of Virginia from
1885 to 1897; Theodore Bland, mem
Der of the Kings Council in Virginia
in 1865, who sold to William Byrd the
land on which the latter built his IA
nous estate, Westover- the James;
Col. Miles Cary of the Virginia Coun-
Gil in 1860, who was killed by the
Dutch while defending the fort at
Old Point Comfort, ana John Aston,
associate justice of North Carolina in
1724. Mr.. McIlwaine is now living in
Petersburg. The date for the wedding
has not been announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A. de Cazenove
have returned from Baltimore, where
they spent New Year day with their
cousins, the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Edwin
B. Niver.
Cadet Llewellyn Powell, jr.; Cadet
David Lee Henderson and Cadet L. B.
O'Hara of the Virginia Military In
stitute, who spent the holidays in
their homes in Alexandria, were in
Richmond Monday for the annual
Christmas dance of the v. M. I. Club
of that city which was held that eve
ming in the John Marshall Hotel.
Mrs. David Tucker Brown, who has
been in Richmond since the middle
of December. was joined there for
the holidays by her two sons, returned
with them yesterday and her sons
will resume their studies at the Epis-
copal High School next week. Mrs.
Brown formerly was Miss Barbara
Trigg of Richmond.
Mrs Agnes Pullman Mueller has an
nounced the engagement of her
daughter, Mary Wilhelmina. to Mr..
Walter Hugh Travers, also Of Alex
andria. The wedding will take place
later in the Winter.
Mr.. william e. Worden, jr., is back
from visit to his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. c. R. Yeager, in
Newark.
Mrs Matte Wade Woolls of Kill
marnock, Va, formerly of this city,
is the guest of her nephew. Judge
William Pope Woolls, and Mrs.
Woolls.
The marriage of Miss Sidney Alice
May, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Lee May, to Mr.. David Haddock
took place Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock in the home of the brides
parents, the Rev. Pierce s. Ellis, pas
tor Of the First Baptist Church. OIL
ciating.
Saturday evening, December 20, Mr..
and Mrs. Beverley May entertained
at q buffet supper in honor of the
formers sister, and Mr.. Haddock.
There were about 40 guests, among
whom were Mr.. and Mrs R. L. May,
Miss Elsie May, Miss Virginia Dain-
gerfield, aunt of Mrs. Beverley May;
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Gary. DR.. and
Mrs. Edmund Lane, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Harris, Mr.. and Mrs. Jay
Conger, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis r. Wat
son, Mr.. and Mrs. William Norris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ross, Mrs. Ethan
Allen Jones, Miss Helen Cannon, Miss
Henrietta LANCER, Miss Nettie Dance,
Miss Hilda Pullman, Miss Catherine
Pullman, Miss Virginia Grinln, Miss
Eliza Crump, Mr.. Campbell Dance.