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liecanie Hie H ife ol a IkuoiiciLady Heskcth, Formerly Miss Sharcn, One of England's Chaiming Matrons, and the Mother of Two Fine Beys.It was in 1880 that Sir Thomas Hesketh, making a lour in the Lancashire Witch, putin at the (iolden (late, met Miss Sharon andfell a victim to her personal charms. Their marriage soon followed, says a writer in the London Lady's Pictorial.In personal appearance Lady Ilesketh is slight and petite, but with plenty of nerve beneath her almost fragile build. Her face is a very speaking one, full of expression and of that nameless fascination which some women possess to an extraordinary degree. Her L rehead is low and bread, with dark, delicately drawn brows, beneath which a pair of lovely eyes, gray, shading to violet, look out earnestly, the suspicion of purple shading below only adding to their charm. The nose and mouth are finely modeled and indicative of decided character. 'Phe littlo head is admirable, small and 9tag-like, the dark hair dressed closely to it, accentuating the purity of outline.LADY JiESKETU. DAUGHTER CIn her manner she repeats the fascination of her personuel. She is simple and unaffected, and possesses the happy faculty, grand dame though s!iq be, of putting ona at ease in a moment. She talks well and vivaciously and with a vein of quiet humor, inherited doubtless from her Quaker ancestors. Lady Heskeih was Miss Florence Sharon, the daughter of the wealthy and influential United States Senator for Nevada.lt; n her father’s side she lt;omes of good old Quaker stock, one of her ancestors going to America at the* time of the great Penn im-migrnti n and settling permanently amongthe “Friends in Pennsylvania. Hergrandfather never relinquished his connec- !lion with them, and his descendants own tothis day certain “birthrights'’ in the society. Her mother was a native of Quebec; a young and beautiful g rl when she married. she da d when her littlegirl was barely 1 8 years old, and Mr. Sharon then se t his da ugh ter a broad tj be educated, where she divided her time between the Convent of the .sacred lt;u*:r in Paris and one of the same order at iixdiamptou, completing her scholastic studies at the religious house of Notre I)ain»*, San Fmucfocn.1 t* ri 1 ▲ 1 t . 4 1
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San Francisco Morning Call
San Francisco, California, US
Mon, Nov 09, 1891
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