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Elizabeth Hartshorne

Impressive Women:  Elizabeth Hartshorne

Elizabeth Hartshorne poses in her wedding dress at the time of her marriage to P. Garland Ligon in 1915. She grew up at Hillcrest in Brighton. When it burned, she and 'Pete' Ligon built Homestone on the same site, using rock hauled from Triadelphia. Irrepressibly active all of her 96 years, she was President of the Hospital Women's Board, active in the Federation of Women's Clubs, and a tireless member of Sandy Spring clubs: Home Interest, Horticultural, Wednesday Club, and Women's Mutual Improvement Association. The Ligons had five children: Charles, Connor, Daniel, Nell, and John. Betty Ligon died in 1988.