Lucy Hale

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(10-17-2015 05:23 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  I have never seen a photo, but James Patton Ferguson, who owned the bar/restaurant next to Ford's Theatre, said "she was one of the most beautiful women I ever saw."

Ferguson also said, "After the assassination, when she heard that I was the first man to report the murder at the police station, she sent me word that she would blow my head off the next time she saw me."

(Source: Terry Alford's book)

Somewhere, I remember reading that Ella was a petite redhead. Didn't we have a thread going on Lucy and the Hales early on that included a full-length photo of Lucy from the Hale museum up north? It showed a much more attractive Lucy than this standard CDV. I have often questioned whether or not the CDV is actually Lucy, but everyone seems to accept that it is.

Terry Alford tells me that he traced Ella after 1865 and that she married well. I have begged for further information, but so far I have not coaxed it out of him. I was hoping that he would include it as a side note in Fortune's Fool, but... For some of us, that would have been the "scoop" of the day for his book.