5/19/2023 0 Comments The People Therein by Mildred Lee![]() She loved the flower garden and she had her own individual plot which she planted with the help of Harry Washington Gray, one of the slave children on the estate. She took music lessons but evidently did not practice very hard. ![]() Like Agnes she was very fond of her pet chickens and the family cats. She was not pretty and had a tendency to plumpness but her father thought she brought light into a room when she entered it, and she often did surprising things that delighted him. She had brown hair and rather plain features. But she was a bright spirit and a lively cheerful person. She had some difficulties with her mother in the spring of 1861, for making a fuss over a bonnet at a time when the Union was breaking apart, her home was in danger, and her father's career in jeopardy. Yet, if able, he gave her everything she wanted. Her father once complained that she always wanted something. The youngest child, she was a bit spoiled and willful. She was at home most of the time until she went away to boarding school at Winchester, Virginia in autumn of 1860. Mildred ("Milly," "Precious Life") was the baby of the family and was named after Robert E. ![]() ![]() She never married, traveled extensively, and loved flowers and animals. Her father adored her, and she adored him. ![]() According to a number of sources, Mildred was a rather plain-looking young woman who was a bit plump and had a wonderful, cheerful personality. ![]()
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