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Debutante officers to be presentedBall is Friday eveningI 4r.'t-Presented today in forma! portrays are the officers of the Delta IMditante Club, Miss . Shelley Hollis Schuyler, president; Mis Frankie Taylor Hardin*, T : vice-president; and Miss Chester Allen Wataon Jr., secretary.The Greenville Golf and Country Club will be the scene of the formal ball this Friday night when these three young women, along with 17 others, will be presented to society. Mrs. Lawrence Lipscomb Paxton of Osceola Plantation fa • club sponsor.Miss Schuyler, a student at the University of Mississippi and a member of Chi Omega sorority, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adyn Eugene Schuyler of •' •' Sumner..V HER GRANDPARENTS are Mrs, Joseph Albert May and the late Judge Mayof Sumner and the late Mr. and Mrs. Adyn Eugene Schuyler of Evanston, III.On her paternal side she Is a descendant of Major General John Schuyler of Albany, N. Y. whose daughter Elizabeth married Alexander Hamilton. The Schuyler family came originally from Holland and settled in New Netherlknd, which later became New York. She is also a descendant of the Hollis and King families of New York, who settled in Chicago in 1841,On hBr maternal side she is a descendant of William Joseph May who9e family \ came from England to Virginia territory, founding Cape May now known as Cape■ : May, N. J.; - Two members of Judge May’s family, were Mississippi governors, Gov. Hirmf'. :- ' Runnels and Gov. Anse McLaurin. She Is also a descendant of Patrick Henry, the!T first governor of Virginia, and the Powers family who established schools inMUledgeville and Macon, Ga. The family came from Georgia to South Carolina and Mississippi before the Civil War.MISS HARDING, whose ancestors came from England, is the daughter of Mr. lvl, and Mrs. Robert Mayer MacLaurie Harding of Greenville. Her grandparents are the£ • late Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson Taylor of Greenville and the late Mr. andMrs. William Nathan Harding of Lewistown, Pa.^ On her paternal side Miss Harding’s great-grandfather Nathan Harding cames\‘: * from England to Mt. Carmel, Pa. where be married Mary Miller. Other great-grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Elias Mayer, also of Mt. Carmel.»;. • f On her maternal side she is a descendant of the Taylor family who cameX-7 from Carlisle, England to Orange County, Va, in 1635. The family moved toHeywood County, Tenn., and to Taylor's Chapel, Fayette County, Tenn.Among members of this family were President Madison and Col. George Reade. Other ancestors were the Weilenman family, who came from Switzerland to Rodney, Miss, where Taylor’s great-grandfather was bom.Miss Harding Is a student at Stratford College, Danville, Va. She was also a student at LaEscueU de la Tohona, LeGnmja, Spain.MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM Lonnie Watson Jr. of Leland are the parents of ; Miss Watson. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Barry Allen of Leland andMrs. William Lonnie Watson and the late • Mr. Watson of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Ala.On her paternal side she is a descendant of Rtchard Maxwell, William Tobias Watson, Capt. John Clements and of the Brorn, Sexon and Freeman families. The Maxwell family migrated to Tuscaloosa, Ala. from Cockermouth, England in 18S6.Thomas Clements and Capt. John Clement* settled in Tuscaloosa, Ala. tn 1817 coming there from South Carolina. The Watson family migrated to Tuscaloosa County, Ala. from North Carolina in 1815-1817.On her paternal side she is a descendant of Peter Royal Branton, James Lanier Barry, William Coleman and Sir Thomas Carlyle and William Branton. Peter Royal Branton came to the Delta from Sunnyside, Amelia County, Va. and was an , early settler on Deer Creek, Washington County, Miss.Richard Barry was^p. signer of the Mechlenbeig Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775. The Branton and Coleman families settled in Virginia in the early 1700’s,Miss Watson is a student at Millsaps College, Jackson and Is a member of Chi Omega sorority.Miss Shelley Hollis SchuylerPortraits by Franks Keating
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Sun, Dec 22, 1968
Page 29
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