Courier-Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Wednesday 15 December 1920; Page 6, Column 4, 5
The Point Of View Column - a regular feature for the public to write or comment
MRS. MARGARETTA BROWN BARRET
To the Editor of The Courier-Journal:
Mrs. Margaretta Brown Barret of "old Frankfort" and "Liberty Hall"; vice regent for Kentucky of the Mount Vernon Association for many years; first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort; woman, gentle woman, lady to the manor born, member of Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the American Revolution; daughter of Mason Brown, one of the great lawyers and first citizens of Old Kentucky history, and Mary (Yoder) Brown; granddaughter of John Brown, first United States Senator from Kentucky, and Margaretta (Mason) Brown; sister of B. Gratz Brown, Governor of Missouri and Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, and of John Mason Brown, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Kentucky bar, scholar, author and gentleman; Knox Brown and Yoder Brown, sister of Mrs. W. T. Scott, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Daily, widow of William F. Barret, a leader of the bar of Kentucky; mother of Mason Brown Barret, deceased, honored and loved by all who knew him. This is the genealogy of this excellent gentlewoman.
From her childhood to her death. Mrs. Barret lived in "Liberty Hall" of which Thomas Jefferson, friend of her grandfather, was the architect. For more than a hundred years, "Liberty Hall" was notable in Kentucky History as the center of society activities where many of the great men and women of our country and General Lafayette and others from abroad have been entertained.
For generations, Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott, now deceased, and Mrs. Bailey have lived in the grand old home and been leaders in society and in countless good works in Kentucky and Frankfort, trusted, honored and dearly beloved of all who have known them, a great host.
Mrs. Barret, daughter of such ancestry, none better, anywhere in the world, was an honor and a noble influence for all that is best in human endeavor, in life and works, in church and state and in society splendidly worthy of her blood and kin, and of all the love, respect and distinctions which she inherited or won in her Ions and useful life.
It would be no easy undertaking to try to find in all Kentucky history, any women, into whose lives there were woven so many elements and achievements of honor and distinguished character, of usefulness and true greatness, of noble womanliness, elegance, culture, refinement and splendid presence and bearing as in the lives of Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bailey.
From her youth to her death, she fulfilled grandly the best ideal of a woman. She was above the usual stature of woman, tall, slender, erect, of splendid face and features. Womanly, wise, faithful and true to every duty of life and family and friends, thorough in her work, at times almost austere in stress of feeling, but, under all circumstances, most tender and most hospitable, maintaining always the best family traditions of "Liberty Hall."
She was always lovely, considerate and faithful to her younger friends and there were generations and hundreds of these. She was given to wide reading, earnest study and deep, searching thought. Her judgment was singularly wise, just and true and her help, counsel and advice were eagerly sought and implicitly trusted. Of rare and marked dignity, which never failed, she was, with it all, so kind, loving, tender and devoted to her kin-folks and all the friends and neighbors who were part of her life and love, that not only her own family, but all who came within her ken, loved her as truly as they respected and honored her.
In all her life and associations, in her family, her church, her party, her faith and her convictions, she was nobly sincere, brave, positive, direct, outspoken, frank to a fault, firm and even unyielding, slow to enlist, but once enlisted, set. In all the history of the Commonwealth, there is no one whose spirit, personality, presence and character, life and work, have done the Commonwealth more honor or who has been more justly distinguished than Margraretta Brown Barret. Her memory will ever be precious.
"TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE."
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON.
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From Find A Grave Contributor: Randolph Hollingsworth (50784077)
Founding member of the Frankfort Equal Rights Association in 1902 - also the first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort.
The date of service was 6 December 1920
Wednesday 15 December 1920; Page 6, Column 4, 5
The Point Of View Column - a regular feature for the public to write or comment
MRS. MARGARETTA BROWN BARRET
To the Editor of The Courier-Journal:
Mrs. Margaretta Brown Barret of "old Frankfort" and "Liberty Hall"; vice regent for Kentucky of the Mount Vernon Association for many years; first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort; woman, gentle woman, lady to the manor born, member of Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the American Revolution; daughter of Mason Brown, one of the great lawyers and first citizens of Old Kentucky history, and Mary (Yoder) Brown; granddaughter of John Brown, first United States Senator from Kentucky, and Margaretta (Mason) Brown; sister of B. Gratz Brown, Governor of Missouri and Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, and of John Mason Brown, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Kentucky bar, scholar, author and gentleman; Knox Brown and Yoder Brown, sister of Mrs. W. T. Scott, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Daily, widow of William F. Barret, a leader of the bar of Kentucky; mother of Mason Brown Barret, deceased, honored and loved by all who knew him. This is the genealogy of this excellent gentlewoman.
From her childhood to her death. Mrs. Barret lived in "Liberty Hall" of which Thomas Jefferson, friend of her grandfather, was the architect. For more than a hundred years, "Liberty Hall" was notable in Kentucky History as the center of society activities where many of the great men and women of our country and General Lafayette and others from abroad have been entertained.
For generations, Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott, now deceased, and Mrs. Bailey have lived in the grand old home and been leaders in society and in countless good works in Kentucky and Frankfort, trusted, honored and dearly beloved of all who have known them, a great host.
Mrs. Barret, daughter of such ancestry, none better, anywhere in the world, was an honor and a noble influence for all that is best in human endeavor, in life and works, in church and state and in society splendidly worthy of her blood and kin, and of all the love, respect and distinctions which she inherited or won in her Ions and useful life.
It would be no easy undertaking to try to find in all Kentucky history, any women, into whose lives there were woven so many elements and achievements of honor and distinguished character, of usefulness and true greatness, of noble womanliness, elegance, culture, refinement and splendid presence and bearing as in the lives of Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bailey.
From her youth to her death, she fulfilled grandly the best ideal of a woman. She was above the usual stature of woman, tall, slender, erect, of splendid face and features. Womanly, wise, faithful and true to every duty of life and family and friends, thorough in her work, at times almost austere in stress of feeling, but, under all circumstances, most tender and most hospitable, maintaining always the best family traditions of "Liberty Hall."
She was always lovely, considerate and faithful to her younger friends and there were generations and hundreds of these. She was given to wide reading, earnest study and deep, searching thought. Her judgment was singularly wise, just and true and her help, counsel and advice were eagerly sought and implicitly trusted. Of rare and marked dignity, which never failed, she was, with it all, so kind, loving, tender and devoted to her kin-folks and all the friends and neighbors who were part of her life and love, that not only her own family, but all who came within her ken, loved her as truly as they respected and honored her.
In all her life and associations, in her family, her church, her party, her faith and her convictions, she was nobly sincere, brave, positive, direct, outspoken, frank to a fault, firm and even unyielding, slow to enlist, but once enlisted, set. In all the history of the Commonwealth, there is no one whose spirit, personality, presence and character, life and work, have done the Commonwealth more honor or who has been more justly distinguished than Margraretta Brown Barret. Her memory will ever be precious.
"TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE."
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON.
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From Find A Grave Contributor: Randolph Hollingsworth (50784077)
Founding member of the Frankfort Equal Rights Association in 1902 - also the first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort.
The date of service was 6 December 1920
Courier-Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Wednesday 15 December 1920; Page 6, Column 4, 5
The Point Of View Column - a regular feature for the public to write or comment
MRS. MARGARETTA BROWN BARRET
To the Editor of The Courier-Journal:
Mrs. Margaretta Brown Barret of "old Frankfort" and "Liberty Hall"; vice regent for Kentucky of the Mount Vernon Association for many years; first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort; woman, gentle woman, lady to the manor born, member of Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the American Revolution; daughter of Mason Brown, one of the great lawyers and first citizens of Old Kentucky history, and Mary (Yoder) Brown; granddaughter of John Brown, first United States Senator from Kentucky, and Margaretta (Mason) Brown; sister of B. Gratz Brown, Governor of Missouri and Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, and of John Mason Brown, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Kentucky bar, scholar, author and gentleman; Knox Brown and Yoder Brown, sister of Mrs. W. T. Scott, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Daily, widow of William F. Barret, a leader of the bar of Kentucky; mother of Mason Brown Barret, deceased, honored and loved by all who knew him. This is the genealogy of this excellent gentlewoman.
From her childhood to her death. Mrs. Barret lived in "Liberty Hall" of which Thomas Jefferson, friend of her grandfather, was the architect. For more than a hundred years, "Liberty Hall" was notable in Kentucky History as the center of society activities where many of the great men and women of our country and General Lafayette and others from abroad have been entertained.
For generations, Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott, now deceased, and Mrs. Bailey have lived in the grand old home and been leaders in society and in countless good works in Kentucky and Frankfort, trusted, honored and dearly beloved of all who have known them, a great host.
Mrs. Barret, daughter of such ancestry, none better, anywhere in the world, was an honor and a noble influence for all that is best in human endeavor, in life and works, in church and state and in society splendidly worthy of her blood and kin, and of all the love, respect and distinctions which she inherited or won in her Ions and useful life.
It would be no easy undertaking to try to find in all Kentucky history, any women, into whose lives there were woven so many elements and achievements of honor and distinguished character, of usefulness and true greatness, of noble womanliness, elegance, culture, refinement and splendid presence and bearing as in the lives of Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bailey.
From her youth to her death, she fulfilled grandly the best ideal of a woman. She was above the usual stature of woman, tall, slender, erect, of splendid face and features. Womanly, wise, faithful and true to every duty of life and family and friends, thorough in her work, at times almost austere in stress of feeling, but, under all circumstances, most tender and most hospitable, maintaining always the best family traditions of "Liberty Hall."
She was always lovely, considerate and faithful to her younger friends and there were generations and hundreds of these. She was given to wide reading, earnest study and deep, searching thought. Her judgment was singularly wise, just and true and her help, counsel and advice were eagerly sought and implicitly trusted. Of rare and marked dignity, which never failed, she was, with it all, so kind, loving, tender and devoted to her kin-folks and all the friends and neighbors who were part of her life and love, that not only her own family, but all who came within her ken, loved her as truly as they respected and honored her.
In all her life and associations, in her family, her church, her party, her faith and her convictions, she was nobly sincere, brave, positive, direct, outspoken, frank to a fault, firm and even unyielding, slow to enlist, but once enlisted, set. In all the history of the Commonwealth, there is no one whose spirit, personality, presence and character, life and work, have done the Commonwealth more honor or who has been more justly distinguished than Margraretta Brown Barret. Her memory will ever be precious.
"TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE."
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON.
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From Find A Grave Contributor: Randolph Hollingsworth (50784077)
Founding member of the Frankfort Equal Rights Association in 1902 - also the first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort.
The date of service was 6 December 1920
Wednesday 15 December 1920; Page 6, Column 4, 5
The Point Of View Column - a regular feature for the public to write or comment
MRS. MARGARETTA BROWN BARRET
To the Editor of The Courier-Journal:
Mrs. Margaretta Brown Barret of "old Frankfort" and "Liberty Hall"; vice regent for Kentucky of the Mount Vernon Association for many years; first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort; woman, gentle woman, lady to the manor born, member of Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of the American Revolution; daughter of Mason Brown, one of the great lawyers and first citizens of Old Kentucky history, and Mary (Yoder) Brown; granddaughter of John Brown, first United States Senator from Kentucky, and Margaretta (Mason) Brown; sister of B. Gratz Brown, Governor of Missouri and Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, and of John Mason Brown, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Kentucky bar, scholar, author and gentleman; Knox Brown and Yoder Brown, sister of Mrs. W. T. Scott, Mrs. Dr. J. C. Daily, widow of William F. Barret, a leader of the bar of Kentucky; mother of Mason Brown Barret, deceased, honored and loved by all who knew him. This is the genealogy of this excellent gentlewoman.
From her childhood to her death. Mrs. Barret lived in "Liberty Hall" of which Thomas Jefferson, friend of her grandfather, was the architect. For more than a hundred years, "Liberty Hall" was notable in Kentucky History as the center of society activities where many of the great men and women of our country and General Lafayette and others from abroad have been entertained.
For generations, Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott, now deceased, and Mrs. Bailey have lived in the grand old home and been leaders in society and in countless good works in Kentucky and Frankfort, trusted, honored and dearly beloved of all who have known them, a great host.
Mrs. Barret, daughter of such ancestry, none better, anywhere in the world, was an honor and a noble influence for all that is best in human endeavor, in life and works, in church and state and in society splendidly worthy of her blood and kin, and of all the love, respect and distinctions which she inherited or won in her Ions and useful life.
It would be no easy undertaking to try to find in all Kentucky history, any women, into whose lives there were woven so many elements and achievements of honor and distinguished character, of usefulness and true greatness, of noble womanliness, elegance, culture, refinement and splendid presence and bearing as in the lives of Mrs. Barret and her sisters, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Bailey.
From her youth to her death, she fulfilled grandly the best ideal of a woman. She was above the usual stature of woman, tall, slender, erect, of splendid face and features. Womanly, wise, faithful and true to every duty of life and family and friends, thorough in her work, at times almost austere in stress of feeling, but, under all circumstances, most tender and most hospitable, maintaining always the best family traditions of "Liberty Hall."
She was always lovely, considerate and faithful to her younger friends and there were generations and hundreds of these. She was given to wide reading, earnest study and deep, searching thought. Her judgment was singularly wise, just and true and her help, counsel and advice were eagerly sought and implicitly trusted. Of rare and marked dignity, which never failed, she was, with it all, so kind, loving, tender and devoted to her kin-folks and all the friends and neighbors who were part of her life and love, that not only her own family, but all who came within her ken, loved her as truly as they respected and honored her.
In all her life and associations, in her family, her church, her party, her faith and her convictions, she was nobly sincere, brave, positive, direct, outspoken, frank to a fault, firm and even unyielding, slow to enlist, but once enlisted, set. In all the history of the Commonwealth, there is no one whose spirit, personality, presence and character, life and work, have done the Commonwealth more honor or who has been more justly distinguished than Margraretta Brown Barret. Her memory will ever be precious.
"TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE."
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON.
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From Find A Grave Contributor: Randolph Hollingsworth (50784077)
Founding member of the Frankfort Equal Rights Association in 1902 - also the first president of the Woman's Club of Frankfort.
The date of service was 6 December 1920
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