Sallie Ward

Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (September 29, 1827 – July 8, 1896) was a "Southern belle." 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." Her father, Col. Robert Johnson Ward, was a planter and lawyer who served as the Speaker of the Assembly of Kentucky. Her paternal uncle, Junius Richard Ward, resided at Ward Hall in Georgetown, Kentucky,

Ward married her first husband, Timothy Bigelow Lawrence, the son of Abbott Lawrence, on December 5, 1849. It is now at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. She was buried at the Cave Hill Cemetery. Her son, John Wesley Hunt, worked as the night editor of the New York World.