Mary Catherine Brisbane Hickox 1832 - 1913 wrote a memoir of her childhood, as she explained it "thinking that after I am gone my children may want to know some thing about their relations when there is no one to tell them".   She had two children, but only one grand child and this grand daughter, Zillah Keese Hickox 1892 - 1975, would herself die unmarried.   Mary Catherine's memoir lives on, however, and includes many delightful reminiscences of her kinsfolk including the one below.   Thanks are due to Zillah Keese Hickox who ensured the preservation of the text and to Tom Tucker who brought it to the compiler's attention.

Old Mr Rawlins Lowndes  [1721 – 1800] after the death of his second wife and when he was fifty years of age married for the third time a young girl, Sarah Jones of Georgia  [d  ?1801].    They had one son, William Lowndes [William Jones Lowndes 1782 – 1822], who afterwards became even more distinguished than his father.   He was a great politician and conspicuous in congress from 1810 to 1822, when he died during a voyage undertaken for his health and was buried at sea.   His wife [Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney d 1857] was with him and to her dying day and, at the age of 80, she never forgot the sound of his body being thrown into the water.   She was a niece of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, also a distinguished southern man.   They left a son, Pinckney Lowndes [Thomas Pinckney Lowndes 1808 – 1838] and a daughter, Rebecca [Rebecca Motte Lowndes 1810 - 1893] , who married a Mr [Edward Cotesworth] Rutledge.   The latter’s daughter, Mrs St Julian Ravenal [born Harriet Horry Rutledge], has just published a life of her grand mother [presumably, Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney d 1857] not very entertaining except to members of the family.   I never saw this Mr William Lowndes, but his wife, Aunt William, [Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney d 1857] I remember very well.   A gentle, quiet, sweet faced old lady who always dressed in mourning and wore a widow’s cap.   Her son’s eldest son, William[William Lowndes 1832 -  1856], was very smart but terribly dissipated.   He died  when on a visit to Germany.   There are still grand daughters and one grand son [presumably Thomas Pinckney Lowndes 1839 - 1899] left.