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The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 26

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Delta Democrat-Times Greenville, Mississippi 4 debutantes are presented Delta Debutante Club sponsor Mrs. Lawrence Lipscomb Vaxton of Osoeola Plantation, Lei and, today presents four members who will make their debut with 16 other young women at a formal ball at the Greenville Country Club on Dec. 27. Miss Eleanor Frances Wright is the daughter of Mrs. Albert Edwin Wright Jr.

of Greenville and the late Mr. Wright of Mount Aterlin, Xy.She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Taylor of Greenville and Mrs. Albert Edwin Wright and the late Mr.

Wright of Mount Sterling, Ky. On her paternal side she Is a descendant of Thomas Jameson of Culpepper County, who served with George Rogers Clarke and from Judith Ball Backney who married Sir John Wright who was the son of Nathaniel Wright who brought the colonists to America in 1630 from Essex, England. ON HER MATERNAL side she is a descendant of the Taylor family who came from Carlisle, England to Orange County, Va. in 1635. The family moved to Heywood County, then to Taylor's Chapel Fayctte County, Tenn.

Among the illustrous members of this family were President Madison and earlier Colonel George Reade. Other ancestors were Nathaniel Sutliff whose family founded the city of Dedham, In 1661. of her maternal great-great-grandparents were physicians, Drs. Joseph Garish Veness of Rockport, III. Miss Wright is a student at the Fashion Institute, Atlanta, Ga.

MiSS SALLIE KEY Bramlett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Crow Bramlett Jr. of Clarksdale and the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

William Thomas McGehee of Greenville and Mrs. Leon Crow Bramlett and the late Mr. Bramlelt of Clarksdale. On her paternal side she is a descendant of French Hugenots who came to Pickens County, S. then Rome, before settling in Coahoma County, Miss.

Also she is a descendant of Randolph Murff who was of Swiss-German descent and lived In the Orangeburg District, S. before settling in Mississippi and of General Franklin Bell and the clan of Cameron. Other ancestors are Richard Lee of Buckingham, England, Thomas Lee, founder of Stratford Hall in Virginia and Andrew Lee of August, who settled in Tallahatchie County, Miss, in 1832. MISS BRAMLETT'S great-grandmother, Mrs. Judge Rabun Jones, was the founder of the Delta Debutante Club.

On her maternal side her ancestors were of the MacGregor clan who came from Scotland and resided in St. John Parish, King William County, eventually settling in Panola County, and from John Key of England who first settled in Abermarle County, then to Edgefield District, S. and then to Carroll County, Miss. Miss Bramlett is a student at Stratford College, Danville, Va. MISS JULIA PEARL Alvarez is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Joseph Alvarez Jr. of Greenville. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

William Herbert Birdsong of Greenville and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Joseph Alvarez of Fairmont City, 111. On her paternal side she is a descendant of the Busto and Alvarez families of Astrurias Province in Northern Spain who were early settlers of Florida and California. On her maternal side she is a descendant of Judge David Kcr who came to Natchez in 1802 and of John Ker, Earl and Baron of Wakefield and Duke of Rosburgh, whose family dated from 1300 in Scotland.

She is also a descendant of the Birdsong and Mason families of Colonial Virginia and the Pearl and Holmes families who came to Massachusetts in the 1600's, and Robert Percy who came from the British Isles to Fort Adams, Miss, in 1802, and William Hampton who came to Virginia in 1620. Miss Alvarez is a student at the University of Mississippi and a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. MISS LAURA NELL Triplett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harrison Triplett of Memphis, and the granddaughter of Mrs.

Ethelbert Earl Triplett and the late Mr. Triplett of Mentone Plantation, Lake Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Otis Johnson of Glen Allan, Miss. On her paternal side she is a descendant of Francis Triplett of London and Cornwall, England, who patented land on the Rappahannok River in Virginia in 1666, and Francis Triplett HI of Round Hill, Fairfax County who was orphaned and raised by Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington.

Charner William Triplett bought land in Leake County, Miss, in 1830. Other ancestors, include James Mann, Earl of Edinburgh, Scotland who came to Baltimore, and whose son settled in Carthage, Miss, in the 1830's. Also she is a descendant of the Brookes, Brown, Mason and Harrison families of Virginia and of Albert Azc II, Marquis of Liguria, who founded the house of Brunswick In the 12th century and from which emerged the Dukes of Brunswick and Hanover. ON HER MATERNAL side the family originated in England, came to North Carolina then to Mississippi locating in Carroll County, which later became Leflore County and the present site of Greenwood. Descendant of William Gray of New Bern, N.

and Fenelie Key Gray of Graysport, Grenada County. She is also the descendant of the Wright, Bibb, and Byrd families of Amherst County James Avcnt who came from France to Virginia in the early seventeenth century, first to Scotland then settled in Virginia then to Mississippi and of the Johnson family who came from Shade, after the Civil War. Sunday, Dec. 1, '68 Nice Specially Downtown Greenville USE YOUR BANKAMERICARD OR OUR CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLANS ust because she loves everything pretty may we suggest to Santa a gift of beautiful lingerie especially for her at Christmas. sleep shirts, dreamy gowns, ensembles and slips to please her fancy in a wonderful assortment of styles and colors.

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