Lucy H. Pickens

(June 11, 1832 - Aug 8, 1899)

Lucy Pickens was born in Lucy Petway Holcombe near La Grange, Tennessee. She married Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 1856. Francis was elected governor of South Carolina in 1860. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lucy Pickens reputedly sold her jewels to help outfit the Confederate Army unit that bore her name, the Lucy Pickens Legion.