brunette

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Probably www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=77080 See an obituary at www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=John+Clayton%3A...

NYT of January 11, 1928 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6061FF83859127A... has an announcement of parties for a Gertrude de Lancey Watts who was to marry Hugh Campbell Wallace 2nd on January 18, 1928. The bride's mother was noted as Mrs. Warren Morgan. This photo has a written date in February 1927 and could be an engagement photo. It seems likely to be the right person. Death notice in NYT: Paid Notice: Deaths WALLACE, GERTRUDE DE LANCEY. Published: September 4, 1998 WALLACE-Gertrude de Lancey. Mother of Peter de L. and Helen W. Wallace, grandmother of Campbell Lloyd-, Peter Woodbridge, and Cornelia S. Wallace, died at home on September 1. Funeral service will be at St. Bartholomew's chapel, 50th Street & Park Avenue Friday, September 4, at 10:30 AM. Donations in her memory may be made to the Animal Medical Center, 510 East 62nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. The [New York] Sun., April 16, 1914, Page 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1914-04-16/ed-... reports on the second marriage of Gertrude's mother, Helen Rice Watts, widow of Dr. Robert Watts, Jr. to Townsend Morgan. Gertrude was the flower girl. New-York tribune., March 31, 1914, Page 7, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1914-03-31/ed-... indicates that Gertrude was 9 at the time and that her father had died 6 years previously. That would make Gertrude's year of birth ~1905 -- which seems reasonable for this picture dated 1927. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-12-17/ed-... New-York Tribune, December 17, 1922, Image 43 Column 1 mentions that Gertrude de Lancey Watts has just returned from 3 years of school in Europe and is making her debut. Mrs. Townsend Morgan is given as the name of her mother.