Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs | |
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 Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860 | |
| Born | Sally Ward September 29, 1827 Scott County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | July 8, 1896 (aged 68) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Resting place | Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Other names | Sallie Ward |
| Spouses | Timothy Bigelow Lawrence
(m. 1849; div. 1850)Robert P. Hunt
(m. 1852, died)
George F. Downs (m. 1885) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Richard Mentor Johnson (paternal great-great-uncle) Abbott Lawrence (father-in-law) |
Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (September 29, 1827 – July 8, 1896) was a "Southern belle."[1] Born into the Southern aristocracy of Kentucky in the Antebellum South, she married four times. After a failed marriage into the Boston Brahmin elite, she married three more times and became a socialite in New Orleans and Louisville, Kentucky. She was one of the first women in the United States to wear cosmetics, and she wore daring outfits. She embodied "an old Kentucky way of life."[1]