tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676335794805364681.post7840084951998432338..comments2023-07-18T04:25:10.996-04:00Comments on Massanutten Musings: Pictures From Our PastMRLibraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10513307789457778062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676335794805364681.post-61582123277236456212013-02-11T11:17:53.616-05:002013-02-11T11:17:53.616-05:00In Orra Gray Langhorne's book "Southern S...In Orra Gray Langhorne's book "Southern Sketches from Virginia 1881-1901", there is the same photo of "Aunt Lucy" (page 88). Her caption reads "one of the Gray family slaves". Orra and Nettie were Gray sisters.<br /><br />Aunt Lucy is purported to be the grandmother of Lucy Frances Simms, who was born into the Gray family. There is a letter from one of the Gray family women to Hampton Institute, stating that both Lucy and her half-brother Ulysses Grant Wilson were descended from a slave purchased by the Gray's from the Lincoln's. This may have been Aunt Lucy. Dale MacAllister has a copy of the this letter. Rosemarie PalmerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676335794805364681.post-55981017557163875562013-02-10T17:33:46.124-05:002013-02-10T17:33:46.124-05:00Cupid is mentioned in Virginia Warren's letter...Cupid is mentioned in Virginia Warren's letters to her husband Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren during the Civil War. It may have been a common name for black slave/servants. Cupid drove the buggy that took Virginia back to her family home plantation in Orange County for visits to her father during the Civil War. Virginia's letters can be viewed on the UVA website under "Sally Magruder Warren". She lived in the house that is now the Virginia Quilt Museum. The Warren's were contemporaries of the Gray's in the mid to late 1800s in Harrisonburg. Unfortunately there are no Gray descendants left in the area. Rosemarie Palmer<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com