Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (June 11, 1832 – August 8, 1899) was a 19th-century American socialite of Tennessee and Texas, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy". She was also a First Lady of South Carolina. Described as "beautiful, brilliant, and captivating" by her male contemporaries, she helped shape the stereotype of the "Southern belle." Born into a planter's family, she moved with them to Marshall, Texas, the seat of Harrison County, at age 16.
She married Colonel Francis Wilkinson Pickens of South Carolina in 1858, after he was nominated as United States ambassador to Russia. They returned to the United States in 1860 and he was elected as governor of the state several days before the legislature voted to secede from the Union. According to the 1860 census, he owned $45,400 in real estate (the equivalent of approximately $1,247,000 today) and $244,206 in personal property (about $6,768,000 today). He (and by extension his wife) also owned 276 slaves.
After the war and during Reconstruction, they found it challenging to keep their upland plantation of Edgewood productive without the aid of hundreds of enslaved people. After her husband died in 1869, Lucy Pickens adjusted to life as a young widow, and learned how to run the plantation.
Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (June 11, 1832 – August 8, 1899) was a 19th-century American socialite of Tennessee and Texas, known during and after her...
Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Clement Clay, George W. Randolph, and Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the wife of the Governor of South Carolina. There was also a bill...
Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister and author (born 1832). August 8 – LucyPickens, socialite, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the...
April 7, 1807. Pickens's gravestone uses the 1807 date. He was the son of former Gov. Andrew Pickens and a grandson of Gen. Andrew Pickens, an American...
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and beyond, most notably William Walker. In 1854 southern socialite LucyPickens wrote a novel The Free Flag of Cuba which provided a romanticized account...
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alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr. The play was an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U.S. House...
Anderson, Eve Arden, Randall Carver, Rich Little, Denise Nicholas, Slim Pickens, Richard Paul, Marion Ross and Richard Roundtree. Note: Pam Grier is listed...
Jerry has hepatitis D and is trying to infect the nest. Liam pays Maudette Pickens a large sum of money to have sex with her and is videotaped in the act...
him to drop his investigation of Deputy Director Alvin Kersh's (James Pickens, Jr.) actions against the X-Files. Doggett tries to contact some of his...
Andrew Parks (Jimmy), Chill Wills (Reedy), Stephen McNally (Muller), Slim Pickens (Sheriff) 244 19 "Flight from Memory" Hollingsworth Morse Jean Holloway...
Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez, Huey Lewis, Bernard Hocke, James Pickens Jr., Michael Keys Hall, Ralph Tabakin The Wedding Singer New Line Cinema...
Hesseman, John Sayles, Eric Payne, Tom Towles, Tom Wright, Billie Neal, James Pickens Jr., Debra Wilson, Rusty Schwimmer, Richmond Arquette, Elizabeth Peña,...
still love Lucy, Jerry undermines Lucy's character with Mrs. Leeson even as Dan and Lucy agree to marry. When Jerry attempts to reconcile with Lucy afterward...
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episodes) Richard McGonagle as Judge Patrick Wilcox (16 episodes) James Pickens, Jr. as Detective Mike McKrew (15 episodes) Frank Birney as Judge Warren...
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