He returned to Savannah, Georgia in 1855 as a lawyer and was the Mayor from 1860 to 1861. He joined the Confederate Army in the fall of 1861, ascending to the rank of Colonel and surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army on 26 April 1865. In 1865 he moved to New York, living in New York City near Central Park, and engaged in the practice of Law. 149 In the spring of 1877 he returned with his family from New York City to Georgia and fixed his residence at Montrose, a fine antebellum mansion in Summerville, where he lived until his death in 1893.149

After attending schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., she returned to Augusta and settled to a life of cultured leisure, indulging her taste for art and books. On 9 November 1858 she was bridesmaid for her cousin once removed, Ruth Berrien Whitehead's marriage to Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. On 28 October 1863 she became his second wife. From December 1865 to 1877 they lived in New York City, then returned to Summerville, Georgia to live. 149 She had the family diary of Sarah Eve of Philadelphia ca 1740-1790 published. 148

In the family bible of John A. Casey, she is listed as born in Evelyn. Is this a plantation name?

She was Charles' first wife and died of puerperal fever two weeks after the birth of their second child.149