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Anna Burge Muir
"Anna Moore"
"Rob Moore's" Cousin
Well-known socialite and horse woman in later life
Her life came to a tragic early end
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Miss Anna Burge Muir
"Anna Moore"
of the stories
Rob's Cousin
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Mrs. Humphrey
("Anna Moore" grown up) |
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photos from
The Sunday Herald Post,
Louisville, Kentucky
December 23, 1928
Photos by Standiford
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Rob Moore’s cousin, Anna Moore, only appears a
few times in the Little Colonel series, most notably as a guest
at the Halloween party at Haunted Hartwell Hollow in
Chapter XI of
The Little Colonel’s Holidays:
"It is a
real Tam O'Shanter night," said Miss Allison, as she led
the way up the winding walk to the front door. "I can
easily imagine witches flying over my head. Can't you?"
she asked, turning to the little group surrounding her.
There were eight children. For not only Ranald and his
sisters had come with Malcolm and Keith, but Rob Moore
and his cousin Anna had been invited to come out from
town to try their fortunes at Hartwell Hollow, and spend
the night in the Valley where they always passed their
happy summers…
…Elise clung
to Allison's hand, for the little sister wanted the
protection of the big one, in those ghostly-looking
rooms, lighted only by the fires and the yellow gleam of
those rows of weird, uncanny jack-o'-lantern faces. Like
Kitty, both Allison and Elise had big dark eyes that
might have been the pride of a Spanish señorita, they
were so large and lustrous. Kitty's curls had been cut,
but theirs hung thick and long on their shoulders. The
sight of them moved Rob to a compliment.
"You and
Anna Moore make me think of night and morning," he said,
looking from Anna's golden hair to Allison's dusky
curls. "One is so light and one is so black. You ought
to go around together all the time. You look fine
together."
"Rob is
growing up," laughed Anna. "Two years ago he wouldn't
have thought about making pretty speeches about our
hair; he'd just have pulled it."
Annie Fellows Johnston based
on Anna Moore on Anna Burge Muir, Muir Semple’s or ”Rob
Moore’s” cousin.She was the daughter of
Judge Peter Brown Muir’s son,
Sidney, and Sarah Lloyd (Burge) Muir, sister of another Pewee,
Albert W. Burge of Delacoosha
“Who’s Who in Louisville,”
published in 1912, provides the following additional information
about her:
m. to Edward
Porter Humphrey (noted lawyer) of Lou., Ky. Democrat.
Episcopal. Mrs. Humphrey breeds and develops thoroughbred and
saddle horses at Arbor-Lea, her farm near Hikes Point,
Jefferson co., Ky. Clubs: Louisville Country, Kentucky,
Pendennis. Home: Hikes Mill Rd.
and about her husband:
HUMPHREY,
Edward Porter,
lawyer; b.
Lou., Ky.; s. Edward W.C. and Jessamine (Barkley) Humphrey; ed.
Rugby school, U of L. Mem. of the law firm of Humphrey, Crawford
& Middleton. Presbyterian. Clubs: Pendennis, Lou. Country,
Kentucky. Home: Hikes Mill Rd., Jefferson co., Ky. Office:
Inter-Southern Life Bldg.
Anna Burge Muir Humphrey
died on April 5, 1934 and her obituary ran not only in the
“Courier-Journal,” but also in the “New York Times:”
MRS. E. P.
HUMPHREY IS DEAD IN KENTUCKY
Well Known in Society Circles Here – She Owned Several
Championship Show Horses
Louisville, Ky., April 5 (1934) ---Mrs. Anna Burge Muir
Humphrey, well known in Louisville and New York society
circles, and wife of Edward P. Humphrey, attorney, died this
morning in a Louisville hospital of peritonitis. Her age was
44.
Mrs.
Humphrey owned several champion horses, which she had shown in
rings throughout the United States. Active in the Democratic
party for years, she delivered an address at the 1922
Jefferson Day dinner given by the National Democratic Club in
New York. Annie Fellows Johnston, author of “The Little
Colonel” series, portrayed Mrs. Humphrey as one of the
principal characters in the series.
Daughter of
Mrs. Sidney Muir and the late Mr. Muir, she was born at the
country home of her parents near Louisville. Her maternal
great-grandfather, Elisha Applegate, one of the first children
born in Louisville, established his house on the site of Ft.
Nelson on the falls of the Ohio River.
A son, Muir
Burge Humphrey, also survives.
Anna Muir Humphrey (1889-1934) is buried in
Section P, Lot 673
at Cave Hill Cemetery.
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