Lucile Davidson Alsop was born to Mr. & Mrs. Samual Davidson in Fort Worth, Texas, and had a brother (Alfred) and a sister (Mrs. Joseph Fleck of Taos, New Mexico). She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1915. She was married first to Scudder Middleton (1888—1959), and they had a son, David Middleton. Middleton was the managing editor of The New Yorker in the early 1930s, as well as an editor of Stage magazine, and a poet and early screenwriter.
On July 2, 1927, she married lawyer Reese Denny Alsop. That marriage was performed at Five Meadows, the Stamford, Conn. summer home of Dr. S. Josephine Baker. Both Lucile Davidson Alsop and Dr. Baker were members of the Universalist Church, but more importantly, they were strong supporters of woman's suffrage. Both women were members of Heterodoxy, a Greenwich Village feminist monthly gathering (1912-1940) of famous, infamous and very interesting women. Lucile Davidson Alsop was also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club. For 12 years she was the financial secretary of the Maternity Centre Association of New York City.
One Heterodoxy member wrote to another in 1935: "Your telegram telling me the tragic news of Lucile's death has just come ... Poor dear Lucile: she loved life so greatly but her doom was already written in the operation that prolonger her life. ... Reese will be bereft, but perhaps he has known it was coming." She died after years of ill health, probably of breast cancer. Scudder Middleton's 1920 poem "Overhead" in Harper's magazine seems fitting for FIND A GRAVE:
"WHEN you and I are laid away
In little boxes under grass,
What will the townsmen say of us
When overhead they smile and pass?
“She was a lovely, quiet thing
Who kept her house so neat and gay.
She was as much in love with life
As she is satisfied today.”
“He was the brightest man we had;
He kept us laughing till he died.
It seemed he only had to speak,
And we would chuckle at his side.”
Then you and I will rap the boards
And call in language of the dead—
But there’ll be nothing we can do
To stop that chatter overhead."
On July 2, 1927, she married lawyer Reese Denny Alsop. That marriage was performed at Five Meadows, the Stamford, Conn. summer home of Dr. S. Josephine Baker. Both Lucile Davidson Alsop and Dr. Baker were members of the Universalist Church, but more importantly, they were strong supporters of woman's suffrage. Both women were members of Heterodoxy, a Greenwich Village feminist monthly gathering (1912-1940) of famous, infamous and very interesting women. Lucile Davidson Alsop was also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club. For 12 years she was the financial secretary of the Maternity Centre Association of New York City.
One Heterodoxy member wrote to another in 1935: "Your telegram telling me the tragic news of Lucile's death has just come ... Poor dear Lucile: she loved life so greatly but her doom was already written in the operation that prolonger her life. ... Reese will be bereft, but perhaps he has known it was coming." She died after years of ill health, probably of breast cancer. Scudder Middleton's 1920 poem "Overhead" in Harper's magazine seems fitting for FIND A GRAVE:
"WHEN you and I are laid away
In little boxes under grass,
What will the townsmen say of us
When overhead they smile and pass?
“She was a lovely, quiet thing
Who kept her house so neat and gay.
She was as much in love with life
As she is satisfied today.”
“He was the brightest man we had;
He kept us laughing till he died.
It seemed he only had to speak,
And we would chuckle at his side.”
Then you and I will rap the boards
And call in language of the dead—
But there’ll be nothing we can do
To stop that chatter overhead."
Lucile Davidson Alsop was born to Mr. & Mrs. Samual Davidson in Fort Worth, Texas, and had a brother (Alfred) and a sister (Mrs. Joseph Fleck of Taos, New Mexico). She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1915. She was married first to Scudder Middleton (1888—1959), and they had a son, David Middleton. Middleton was the managing editor of The New Yorker in the early 1930s, as well as an editor of Stage magazine, and a poet and early screenwriter.
On July 2, 1927, she married lawyer Reese Denny Alsop. That marriage was performed at Five Meadows, the Stamford, Conn. summer home of Dr. S. Josephine Baker. Both Lucile Davidson Alsop and Dr. Baker were members of the Universalist Church, but more importantly, they were strong supporters of woman's suffrage. Both women were members of Heterodoxy, a Greenwich Village feminist monthly gathering (1912-1940) of famous, infamous and very interesting women. Lucile Davidson Alsop was also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club. For 12 years she was the financial secretary of the Maternity Centre Association of New York City.
One Heterodoxy member wrote to another in 1935: "Your telegram telling me the tragic news of Lucile's death has just come ... Poor dear Lucile: she loved life so greatly but her doom was already written in the operation that prolonger her life. ... Reese will be bereft, but perhaps he has known it was coming." She died after years of ill health, probably of breast cancer. Scudder Middleton's 1920 poem "Overhead" in Harper's magazine seems fitting for FIND A GRAVE:
"WHEN you and I are laid away
In little boxes under grass,
What will the townsmen say of us
When overhead they smile and pass?
“She was a lovely, quiet thing
Who kept her house so neat and gay.
She was as much in love with life
As she is satisfied today.”
“He was the brightest man we had;
He kept us laughing till he died.
It seemed he only had to speak,
And we would chuckle at his side.”
Then you and I will rap the boards
And call in language of the dead—
But there’ll be nothing we can do
To stop that chatter overhead."
On July 2, 1927, she married lawyer Reese Denny Alsop. That marriage was performed at Five Meadows, the Stamford, Conn. summer home of Dr. S. Josephine Baker. Both Lucile Davidson Alsop and Dr. Baker were members of the Universalist Church, but more importantly, they were strong supporters of woman's suffrage. Both women were members of Heterodoxy, a Greenwich Village feminist monthly gathering (1912-1940) of famous, infamous and very interesting women. Lucile Davidson Alsop was also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club. For 12 years she was the financial secretary of the Maternity Centre Association of New York City.
One Heterodoxy member wrote to another in 1935: "Your telegram telling me the tragic news of Lucile's death has just come ... Poor dear Lucile: she loved life so greatly but her doom was already written in the operation that prolonger her life. ... Reese will be bereft, but perhaps he has known it was coming." She died after years of ill health, probably of breast cancer. Scudder Middleton's 1920 poem "Overhead" in Harper's magazine seems fitting for FIND A GRAVE:
"WHEN you and I are laid away
In little boxes under grass,
What will the townsmen say of us
When overhead they smile and pass?
“She was a lovely, quiet thing
Who kept her house so neat and gay.
She was as much in love with life
As she is satisfied today.”
“He was the brightest man we had;
He kept us laughing till he died.
It seemed he only had to speak,
And we would chuckle at his side.”
Then you and I will rap the boards
And call in language of the dead—
But there’ll be nothing we can do
To stop that chatter overhead."
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