Lucretia (Rhinelander) Jones (1824-1901)

She grew up for the most part at her maternal grandfather's estate, "The Mount" at Astoria. As a debutante, she wore a homemade gown of white tarlatan and her mother’s old white satin slippers which were much too small for her, causing her considerable discomfort while dancing. Her soon-to-be in-laws did not approve of their son courting Lucretia, denying him a sailing boat as a punishment. They were married nonetheless and after the wedding she became a "clothes-a-holic," importing almost all of her clothes from Paris, which she discovered on her honeymoon. She and her husnband were the parents of 3-children including the famous Gilded Age author, Edith Wharton.