David and Jeanne Heidler: Mrs. Howe's Mother's Day — The Patriot Post
When the nineteenth century was winding down, and she had become an old lady, Julia Ward Howe had her palm read by âan expert.â The reader traced the wrinkled lines and exclaimed, âYou inherit military blood; your hand shows it!â Possibly it did. Howe had martial forebears on both sides of her family. One was South Carolinaâs Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the celebrated âSwamp Foxâ who had bedeviled the British while hiding with his brave band of patriots in Low Country marshes. Yet the lady with the pugnacious palm hated war. She had tried to organ...
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