Who is this lady?

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Betty - Hetty and Jennie Cary were two sisters from Baltimore who were very strong Confederates. When the heat was on, they escaped to Richmond to live with their cousin Constance and her mother. Constance also assisted in Confederate wartime intrigue. The Carys had very strong ancestral ties to both Thomas Jefferson and the esteemed Randolph families of Virginia.

Hetty is the one who caught Henry Kyd Douglas's eye - and others' also: Henry Kyd Douglas, in I Rode With Stonewall, described Hetty as "the most beautiful woman of her day and generation"[3] and "the handsomest woman in the Southland -- with her classic face, her pure complexion, her auburn hair. her perfect figure and her carriage, altogether the most beautiful woman I ever saw in any land."[4]

Hetty was wholeheartedly a supporter of the South, even when in the North and among Union soldiers. On one occasion, she waved a smuggled Confederate flag from a second-story window as Federal troops marched through Baltimore. An officer of the passing regiment allegedly pointed Hetty out to his Colonel, asking, "Shall I have her arrested?" The Colonel looked at her and replied: "No, she is beautiful enough to do as she pleases."[5]

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Just one more little link to Hetty and her marriage http://www.patch.net/misc/cary.html. Talk about omens... ladies, get ready to cry.

Now back to Roger's photo. Whoever that lady is, I bet her story can't beat the Cary sisters'.