Her name was invariably Grace, Charity, or Prudence; and if names had been always a descriptive of the personal qualities of those who bore them, she would have been enlightened to all three... She was somewhat angular and rather bony. Her eyes were usually blue, and, to speak with accuracy, a little cold and grayish in their expression- like the sky on a bleak morning in Autumn... In manners and bearing, she was brisk, prim, and sometimes a little "fidgety", as if she was conscious of sitting on a dusty chair... She was careful of three things- her clothes, her money, and her reputation... The man who courted her must do so in the most sober, staid, and regulated spirit.
-J.L. McConnel
Western Characters, 1853
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