Harriott Rutledge Elliott "Hattie" Gonzales

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Vice President of The State-Record Company, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. She was also vice president of the State Commercial Printing Co and S. and R. Building, Inc. and was a director in these corporations. Her brothers, Ambrose E. Gonzales and N. G. Gonzales founded the State and later were joined by another brother William E. Gonzales. Harriott was known as an expert horsewoman and rode about her plantation Oaklawn on horseback until well past seventy years of age. She lived alone on her plantation until going to Columbia about two weeks prior to her death because of heart problems.

Gonzales Family History:

Harriett Rutledge Elliott married, in 1856, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales (born 1816), a Cuban revolutionary in exile in the United States.

The Gonzaleses had six children: Ambrosio Jose Junior, (1857-1926); Narciso Gener (1858-1903); Alfonso Beauregard (1861-1908); Gertrude Ruffini (1864-1900); Benigno (1866-1937); and Anita (born 1869).

The children of Harriett Rutledge Elliott and Ambrosio Jose Gonzales all used more than one name in the course of their lives: Ambrosio usually signed his letters as "Brosie" and was known in adulthood as Ambrose Elliott Gonzales. Narciso was known affectionately in the family as Nanno, called himself Elliott during his school days, and used his initials, N. G., professionally. Gertrude Ruffini was called Tulita as a little girl, and was later known as Trudie. Alfonso Beauregard was alternately called Fonsie, Beaury, or Bory. Benigno changed his name to William Elliott and was called Minnie as a boy, Willie as a young man, and Bill as an adult. Anita's name was changed to Harriett Rutledge soon after her mother's death, and the family often called her Hattie.