- Collection:
- Virtual Georgia
- Title:
- Bacon, Eugenia Jones (1840-1920)
- Date of Original:
- 1895
- Subject:
- Authors--Georgia
Bacon, Eugenia Jones, 1840-1920--Portraits - Location:
- France, Île-de-France, Paris, 48.85341, 2.3488
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Eugenia Jones Bacon was born in 1840 in Liberty County and was raised on her father's plantation. In 1855 she graduated from the Greensborough Female College, and in 1858 she married Oliver Thomas Bacon (1835-1873). They lived on their plantation in Liberty County. Towards the end of the Civil War they fled Liberty County to southwest Georgia to avoid Union troops. After the war they moved to Atlanta where Oliver was a life insurance agent. In 1873 both Oliver and their only child, Edwin Jones, died from typhoid, and Eugenia was left penniless. From the late 1870's to the late 1890's she travelled throughout Europe and Russia often as a paid companion-chaperon and art teacher to children of wealthy families. In 1898 she published "Lyddy: A tale of the Old South" partly in rebuttal to "Uncle Tom's Cabin." She eventually moved to the West Coast and died in 1920 in Pasadena, California. She was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta next to her husband and son. The photograph was taken in Paris, France.
Eugenia Jones Bacon - Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/vrg/id/196
- Additional Rights Information:
- Contact the Georgia Archives for permission to duplicate for publication. Please cite the Record ID when inquiring.
- Original Collection:
- Virtual Georgia Collection, Georgia Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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