William Howell Forbes

Mrs. Hemsley's sister, Valeria, (Mrs. Paul Forbes) was called for Miss Valeria Wright, of "Reed's Creek." Her husband was a native of New York. She bore him the following children:

First, Thomas, who died young;

second, William Howell, living in the State of New York, who married Dora Delano (no children);

third, Grant, who died in childhood;

fourth, Ella Wright, who died early;

fifth, Pauline (unmarried);

sixth, Frances, who married Odillon Barrett, member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and nephew and heir of the great French statesman of the same name. She bore her husband five children—Odillon, died in youth, Marie, Reta, Andre and Pauline ;

seventh, Henry DeCourcy, son of Mrs. Valeria Forbes, lives in New York, and is unmarried;

eighth, Eliza Wright Forbes, who married Gaston due de Choiseul Praslin, and had seven children—Gaston Marie, Huglies Marie, and five children. The Choiseul Praslins live in Italy.

Ninth child of Mrs. Forbes, Florence, is unmarried and resides in Paris;

tenth, Charles Stuart, is an artist, living in Paris;

eleventh. Paul Revere, a mining engineer, and has been studying in Freiberg, Germany.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Colonial Families and Thier Descendants, by One of the Oldest Graduates of St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N. J.: "The First Female Church-school Established in the United States, which Has Reached Its Sixty-first Year
• Author Mrs. Mary Edwardine Bourke Emory
• Publisher Press of the Sun printing office, 1900
• Original from Harvard University
• Digitized Mar 6, 2009
• Length 239 pages
• Page 152
• https://books.google.com/books?id=nGdAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&d...

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