Identifier: bellesbeauxbrain00dele Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914 Subjects: Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co. Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Text Appearing Before Image: d Mrs. Ives.That they were well contentwith the result is plain.When Mrs. Ives visited Lon-don, post-bellum, Hartington,then Duke of Devonshire,promptly found her out andoffered her the courtesiesof the peers gallery of theHouse of Lords. The Ives home was an openand much sought one, youngand old alike admiring thehandsome pair and their love-ly sister, Mrs. Clara Semmes Fitzgerald. This charming eldersister had married Lieutenant William B. Fitzgerald, of theold navy. He promptly resigned, was made colonel in thearmy and given defense of the furthest advanced post onthe Potomac. The exposure broke him down and earlywidowed his devoted wife. Both these ladies were conventreared, the elder being a splendid musician and one of themost delightful harpists I recall. It is a coincidence that thewife of her brother. Senator Thomas J. Semmes, was the onlyother very noted performer upon Sapphos instrument inRichmond society of that day.But besides her gifts as an entertainer Mrs. Ives was one

Text Appearing After Image: CORA SEMMES IVES BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAIN ti OF THE SIXTIES 119 of the most industrious and resourceful workers for the sol-diers and for the poor among that noble band of Richmondwomen. She practiced what the flowery Oriental preaches,and her house and all it contained was at the disposal of theneedy. There had been no let or stay to this in the beautifulevening of her life. The two widowed sisters lived together,Mrs. Fitzgerald broken in health and Mrs. Ives tending herwith the faithful gentleness of mother and sister combined.The latter days of both passed in that deep content that onlylove and religion can bring. Those of the younger sister havebeen brightened by the fine maturity of three sons, but deeplyshadowed later by the loss of two. Captain Edward B.Ives,chief of the Electrical Bureau, United States Army SignalCorps, was laid at rest atArlington in the fulness ofa brilliant and useful career.Major Frank J. Ives, whowas surgeon on Chaffees staffin China, was later in thePhili

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