Thursday, December 2, 2021

Lucy Pickens's face appears on Confederate $100 bills

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1862, the Confederate government issued $100 notes bearing a portrait of the renowned Southern beauty Lucy Pickens. Lucy Holcombe was born in 1832 in Tennessee.
Between 1848 and 1850 the Holcombes moved to Wyalucing plantation in Marshall, Texas.
Lucy became highly acclaimed throughout the South for her "classic features, titian hair, pansy eyes, and graceful figure." Continued

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