Lovina Streight

[Mike Serpa]

Lovina Streight's husband Abel joined the Union army in 1861 as a colonel in the 51st Indiana Infantry. He was captured by Confederate troops but escaped from LibbyPrison. Lovina accompanied him, nursed the sick and wounded, and was herself captured by the Confederates. Abel retired as a brigadier general at the end of the war. They built a home on East Washington Street in Indianapolis, where Lovina hosted reunions of the 51st after Abel'sdeath.

Indiana Historical Society
http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/dc008/id/250/rec/305

Abel Streight - LOC #05650

 

[diane]

Lovina Streight was interesting! She accompanied her husband on the famous Streight's Raid through Alabama and Georgia. Here is a little YouTube piece on the restoration of her portrait.

 

[Northern Light]

Lovina Streight was interesting! She accompanied her husband on the famous Streight's Raid through Alabama and Georgia. Here is a little YouTube piece on the restoration of her portrait.

Thanks for posting this interesting Video! I enjoyed hearing about this remarkable woman!

 

[Mike Serpa]

Thanks for the video, Diane. It would be so cool to restore an original painting like that!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Not that it matters how a woman looks as she ages- I mean it really does not. If we thought that, all our worths are finished by the time 40 happens and the cosmetics companies win- that whole perspective is their schtick. But- as pretty an elderly woman as Lavina is, she must have been beyond pretty as a younger female. And intrepid and full of life and adventure and half of a memorable couple. What a super life- no wonder her husband is smiling.

Thanks for bringing them here, Mike Serpa!

 

[M Anthony Young]

No harm to her but she's a severe-looking individual. You wouldn't want to be going home to her with your pay packet opened!
Micky.

 

[donna]

Thanks for posting. Another interesting lady from Civil war.

 

[donna]

She has memorial on find a grave. It is at:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46025135

She is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Do you really think she looks severe? I'm not arguing, she doesn't seem that way to me, funny- the severe ones have crabby, pinched mouths, and a glare. She just seems pensive and has a ton of dignity that's all, looks like she was quite lovely a few years ago, still looks to be a pretty elderly lady. I'm crazy about her dress too! Good for her, still sporting lace and ruffles- bet her husband would have approved.

 

[donna]

She looks like my great aunt Annie. She was sister of my grandfather. I have photo of her.

I like the dress too.

 

[Northern Light]

Do you really think she looks severe? I'm not arguing, she doesn't seem that way to me, funny- the severe ones have crabby, pinched mouths, and a glare. She just seems pensive and has a ton of dignity that's all, looks like she was quite lovely a few years ago, still looks to be a pretty elderly lady. I'm crazy about her dress too! Good for her, still sporting lace and ruffles- bet her husband would have approved.

My first impression was of a crotchety old girl whose wrong side you would not care to be on. Either that or the sun was in her eyes! It's funny how our faces fall into age, and often there is not much left of the young woman but her smile! Gravity might be good for a lot of things, but not for faces.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

My first impression was of a crotchety old girl whose wrong side you would not care to be on. Either that or the sun was in her eyes! It's funny how our faces fall into age, and often there is not much left of the young woman but her smile! Gravity might be good for a lot of things, but not for faces.

So funny! You know what I think it may be? Wonder if it's who we knew when we were small children? I mean, you're entirely correct about gravity not being kind to faces, worse luck for all of us. Plus we all encountered older people as small children who are somewhere in our memories whether we know it or not- have the way we interpreted them in our memory banks. Growing up, we had this huge group of lovely, older women in our church in Tower City, Schuylkill County, PA GOSH, nice? Not a good enough writer to explain what this group of women were like in the eyes of a small girl- looking back, could not have had better role models, wish there had been a way to tell all of them. I'm guessing when I see a photo of an older woman, my head tells me it's one of them, you know? Also had this circle of elderly, female relatives same thing. Mom had a missing generation- her mother died when she was a toddler, forcing the grandparent generation on both sides into the mother role. Grew up knowing them awfully well too- hugely kind women of great dignity.

So it's my tinted lenses of memory- never occurred to me before. Ha! Oh well, isn't going anywhere.

 

[Northern Light]

So funny! You know what I think it may be? Wonder if it's who we knew when we were small children? I mean, you're entirely correct about gravity not being kind to faces, worse luck for all of us. Plus we all encountered older people as small children who are somewhere in our memories whether we know it or not- have the way we interpreted them in our memory banks. Growing up, we had this huge group of lovely, older women in our church in Tower City, Schuylkill County, PA GOSH, nice? Not a good enough writer to explain what this group of women were like in the eyes of a small girl- looking back, could not have had better role models, wish there had been a way to tell all of them. I'm guessing when I see a photo of an older woman, my head tells me it's one of them, you know? Also had this circle of elderly, female relatives same thing. Mom had a missing generation- her mother died when she was a toddler, forcing the grandparent generation on both sides into the mother role. Grew up knowing them awfully well too- hugely kind women of great dignity.

So it's my tinted lenses of memory- never occurred to me before. Ha! Oh well, isn't going anywhere.

I know exactly what you mean, JPK, and I guess most the elderly ladies I knew were just sweet faced Upper Canadian Scots and English ladies who gave you tea (actually, milk with a tea bag waved over the top) and shortbread cookies, and let you look at all their pretty china. Soft voices, and soft smiles.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

I know exactly what you mean, JPK, and I guess most the elderly ladies I knew were just sweet faced Upper Canadian Scots and English ladies who gave you tea (actually, milk with a tea bag waved over the top) and shortbread cookies, and let you look at all their pretty china. Soft voices, and soft smiles.

Oh we had those too! The Canadian Scots I mean- Stuarts, PEI, and do not get me started on shortbread cookies. Cannot look at one without gaining a pound. And my 15 year old son hasn't seen PEI yet, still can't drink tea without milk, how shameful is that?

3x Grgrandfather Malcolm Angus Stuart, Prince Edward Island, got Scots?

His daughter, my 3x aunt, Christy Belle

 

[Northern Light]

Oh we had those too! The Canadian Scots I mean- Stuarts, PEI, and do not get me started on shortbread cookies. Cannot look at one without gaining a pound. And my 15 year old son hasn't seen PEI yet, still can't drink tea without milk, how shameful is that?

3x Grgrandfather Malcolm Angus Stuart, Prince Edward Island, got Scots?
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His daughter, my 3x aunt, Christy Belle
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There is nothing wrong with having milk in tea, JPK, I would say the majority of Canadians take it that way. I, being an iconoclast, do not like anything in my tea, which always surprizes people.
There is even a form for proper tea service which states that milk is always add to the cup first, and then the tea, the way my father insisted on his being served. (That Scots stubborn streak, as it was, it is now, and evermore shall be!)

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

There is nothing wrong with having milk in tea, JPK, I would say the majority of Canadians take it that way. I, being an iconoclast, do not like anything in my tea, which always surprizes people.
There is even a form for proper tea service which states that milk is always add to the cup first, and then the tea, the way my father insisted on his being served. (That Scots stubborn streak, as it was, it is now, and evermore shall be!)

OH my goodness, yes, but have you gotten the incredulous looks, not in Canada or the UK? I always ask, would you like milk? Here's what you get, MILK? In TEA? I understand herbal tea is wonderful, Earl Grey is what one drinks if you know TEA but a nicely warmed pot, boiled water and a plain tea that doesn't curdle the milk is just fine. A ton of the flavored and herbal teas curdle it. The thing is, I like a MUG. Also shameful, just seems so pointless being all alone with the whole thing, using dinky little cups and saucers an pouring 10 of them. The older women? Owned not one mug- they could be all alone for decades, they'd still get out the pot, use those dinky little things all of their lives. AND not break any.

 

[Northern Light]

OH my goodness, yes, but have you gotten the incredulous looks, not in Canada or the UK? I always ask, would you like milk? Here's what you get, MILK? In TEA? I understand herbal tea is wonderful, Earl Grey is what one drinks if you know TEA but a nicely warmed pot, boiled water and a plain tea that doesn't curdle the milk is just fine. A ton of the flavored and herbal teas curdle it. The thing is, I like a MUG. Also shameful, just seems so pointless being all alone with the whole thing, using dinky little cups and saucers an pouring 10 of them. The older women? Owned not one mug- they could be all alone for decades, they'd still get out the pot, use those dinky little things all of their lives. AND not break any.

I like a mug too, but have china ones that my mum and I always used, so we wouldn't have to refill then every two seconds. Somehow china just makes the tea taste better. My favourite tea is Lady Grey or Irish breakfast. My father was a real stickler for properly made tea, warm the pot, let steep for 5 min. EXACTLY, china cups, and lemon. I know he would be rolling in his grave to see me, occasionally, throwing a bag into a mug of microwaved hot water!