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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2226863, member: 73555&quot;]In Grover Criswell&#039;s book (4th ed.), &quot;Confederate Paper Money,&quot; he describes Type 44 as follows:&nbsp; &quot;...the female portrait is that of Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the wife of the governor of South Carolina...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, Wikipedia has a long article about her, and cites her birth and death years as 1832 and 1899.&nbsp; She was courted by Col. Francis Pickens, who was soon to be defeated as a candidate for Senator from South Carolina.&nbsp; When he was then appointed as Ambassador to Russia in 1858, Lucy accepted his proposal of marriage.&nbsp; Pickens resigned as Ambassador in 1860 as talk about Secession grew stronger and stronger.&nbsp; He was elected Governor in 1860, three days before South Carolina seceded.&nbsp; Their first child was born in Russia, and both Lucy and her child became favorites of Tsar Alexander II.</p><p><br /></p><p>At Criswell&#039;s IRS-seizure auction in Jacksonville, some 20 years ago, Grover told me to buy as much Trenholm memorabilia as I could afford, and I did.&nbsp; I had over 400 original signed documents after the auction, and went about selling them to Trenholm&#039;s MANY descendants.&nbsp; I just went out and looked for my copy of a much later book about Trenholm, but couldn&#039;t find it.&nbsp; When I do, I&#039;ll follow up this post with more information.&nbsp; This does not quite solve the issue, but Grover Criswell knew more about Confederate money than anyone I ever met, with the possible exception of Douglas Ball.&nbsp; His book says the woman is Lucy, and that&#039;s good enough for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>==========</p><p>edit//&nbsp; From another source, &quot;...George Alfred Trenholm married Anna Helen Holmes. The couple had a very large family; five of their children died in infancy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the Civil War, Trenholm was one of the wealthiest men in America.&nbsp; He was appointed as Secretary of the (Confederate) Treasury near the end of the war (1864).</p><p><br /></p><p>edit2//&nbsp; From another source, &quot;...</p><p>Photo:&nbsp; Anna Helen Trenholm Morgan Headstone</p><p>Category:&nbsp; Other</p><p>Description:&nbsp; Burial: Magnolia Cemetery Charleston Charleston County South Carolina USA</p><p>Attached To:&nbsp; Anna Helen Trenholm (1842-1866) </p><p><br /></p><p>What puzzles me here is the additional surname &quot;Morgan&quot;?&nbsp; And a &quot;very large&quot; family by age 24??&nbsp; I love history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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