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Major Kingsbury had a daughter as j well as the son who feil at Antietam. The daughter married Simón Bolívar Buckner of Kentucky some time before the war. Wheii General Buckner decided to go with the Confederacy, the danger of confiscation of bis wife's interest in the Chicago estáte confronted him. A family council resul ted in the transfer of . irs. Buckner'a property to her brother. Colonel Kingsbury feil in battle without leaving a will to protect his ter's inheritance. When the war closerf, the return of Mrs. Buckner' s interest in her father's estáte was asked for in behalf of her children. Airs. Kingsbury declined to concede it. She claimed all that had been left in her husband's name for her sou and herself. Litigation followed and dragged along for years. Major Kingsbury's40 acres wero in the heart of Chicago when the fire occurred, In the years immediately following the war "Washington had few women more talked about than the beautiful widows, Mrs. Becky Jones and Mrs. Kingsbury, the nieces of an ex-president of the United States. Mrs. Kingsbury became the wife of Gallatin Lawrence, son of one of the wealthiest manufacturers in Rhode Island. Gallatin Lawrence had chosen a diplomatic career. He was sent to Costa Eica as minister. When he came back, society at the capital had a great sensation over the talk of a duel between Minister Lawrence and Captain von der Hass of the Belgian legation because of the captain 's attentions to the beautiful Mrs. Lawrence. The Belgian sailed for Europe. So did Mrs. Lawence. Gallatin Lawrence followed. There was a duel and then a divorce case. Von der Hass went to Egypt. Mrs. Lawrence went there too. Gallatin Lawrence rettirned to the States. The sou of Colonel Kingsbury was sent to Oxford. His inheritance was cut in two by a decisión restoring to her heirs Mrs. Buckner's share in the 40 acres. One day young Kingsbury came home frorn Oxford, bringing a college friend. Between the English student and Mrs. Lawrence an attachment quickly developed. Mrs. Lawrence was twice the age of her son's chum. She married him and is, or was the last that friends in this country leamed, living with him abroad. Kingsbury married a Levautine, and he, too, is in a foreign country. The fortune acquired through the Chicago investment has been much reduced. Mrs. Becky Jones, af ter a long career in Washington, traveled extensively and settled in Canada, whe-re she is still living, by all accounts. This is the complicated sequel, briefly told, of the events which the granite monument above the stone bridge at Antietam