The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 65, July 1961 - April, 1962 Page: 172
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
1. Elisabet and Edmund spent some of the happiest years of
their life at Liendo.
2. Their sincere attempts to uplift their colored help by educa-
tion and by treating them sympathetically proved a dismal failure
and contributed to the unprofitable management of the plan-
tation.
3. Their aloofness from their neighbors and their refusal to
seek their advice about farming, of which they had learned very
little in Georgia, hastened the further decay of Liendo; and what-
ever resources they had left when they moved to Texas dwindled.
4. Elisabet's queer notion that their son Lorne was too good
to associate with the boys of the neighborhood and the town of
Hempstead and the prevailing gossip about her that came to
his ears, caused her to lose the love and respect of her only sur-
viving son.
5. The final realization by Elisabet that the two had spent too
many years in a futile attempt to convert Liendo and its inhabit-
ants into an ideal enterprise at long last convinced her that
she must find some way out of their dilemma.
This period of Elisabet's life at Liendo lasted almost twenty
long years. During this time, she and her family did have some
contacts which later helped her on the way back to her real calling
and to the esteem of persons who grew to appreciate her abilities
and her potential value to the State of Texas. She did remain in
contact with the Runges in Galveston and the Leisewitz family
in Brenham and through them became acquainted with other
prominent people of that day. One of these, Governor Oran M.
Roberts, was later instrumental in getting her before the public
as an artist, and securing for her contacts which were invaluable
to her in her second career as a sculptor.
Her first chance came in the year 1879, when plans were being
considered for a new capitol building at Austin, and Elisabet
appeared before the committee at the suggestion of the governor
and discussed with it the advisability of adorning the new capitol
with statues. The committee at first approved her ideas, but when
it was later decided to use granite instead of limestone, her ideas
were abandoned.172
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