[Note: the following bio is the only place where Frances is listed as her first name. 1870 census calls her Elizabeth F. McAllister. Other records simply say Elizabeth or Lizzie.]
"Frances Elizabeth McAllister, known among her friends as "Lizzie McAllister," was an intellectual star of the brightest magnitude, but with no physique to sustain it. She graduated with honors from the best schools in Georgia. She took to literature, wrote character and dialect stories successfully, and became widely and favorably known as a writer of short stories. She married Dr. Wm. H. Leyden, December 8, 1897 [sic], whom she survived several years. They left two children, Estelle Dibrell, and John McAllister, though his mother, after his father's death, added to his name "Wm. Herring." She died May 18, 1901."
[From Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, edited by John Meriwether McAllister (Lizzie's father), Mrs. Laura May Boulton Tandy, 1906. pp 334-335]
Note that the marriage date in the above text is after the death of Dr. Leyden. Another contributor gives a marriage date of December 14, 1887.
"Frances Elizabeth McAllister, known among her friends as "Lizzie McAllister," was an intellectual star of the brightest magnitude, but with no physique to sustain it. She graduated with honors from the best schools in Georgia. She took to literature, wrote character and dialect stories successfully, and became widely and favorably known as a writer of short stories. She married Dr. Wm. H. Leyden, December 8, 1897 [sic], whom she survived several years. They left two children, Estelle Dibrell, and John McAllister, though his mother, after his father's death, added to his name "Wm. Herring." She died May 18, 1901."
[From Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, edited by John Meriwether McAllister (Lizzie's father), Mrs. Laura May Boulton Tandy, 1906. pp 334-335]
Note that the marriage date in the above text is after the death of Dr. Leyden. Another contributor gives a marriage date of December 14, 1887.
[Note: the following bio is the only place where Frances is listed as her first name. 1870 census calls her Elizabeth F. McAllister. Other records simply say Elizabeth or Lizzie.]
"Frances Elizabeth McAllister, known among her friends as "Lizzie McAllister," was an intellectual star of the brightest magnitude, but with no physique to sustain it. She graduated with honors from the best schools in Georgia. She took to literature, wrote character and dialect stories successfully, and became widely and favorably known as a writer of short stories. She married Dr. Wm. H. Leyden, December 8, 1897 [sic], whom she survived several years. They left two children, Estelle Dibrell, and John McAllister, though his mother, after his father's death, added to his name "Wm. Herring." She died May 18, 1901."
[From Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, edited by John Meriwether McAllister (Lizzie's father), Mrs. Laura May Boulton Tandy, 1906. pp 334-335]
Note that the marriage date in the above text is after the death of Dr. Leyden. Another contributor gives a marriage date of December 14, 1887.
"Frances Elizabeth McAllister, known among her friends as "Lizzie McAllister," was an intellectual star of the brightest magnitude, but with no physique to sustain it. She graduated with honors from the best schools in Georgia. She took to literature, wrote character and dialect stories successfully, and became widely and favorably known as a writer of short stories. She married Dr. Wm. H. Leyden, December 8, 1897 [sic], whom she survived several years. They left two children, Estelle Dibrell, and John McAllister, though his mother, after his father's death, added to his name "Wm. Herring." She died May 18, 1901."
[From Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, edited by John Meriwether McAllister (Lizzie's father), Mrs. Laura May Boulton Tandy, 1906. pp 334-335]
Note that the marriage date in the above text is after the death of Dr. Leyden. Another contributor gives a marriage date of December 14, 1887.
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