Evelyn Byrd (Moale) Burden (1847-1916)

She grew up in Baltimore where her and her twin sister (Judith) were noted society "belles". Both she and her sister were named through her father's family for their great-great grandmother, Mrs Anne (Byrd) Carter who grew up at the Westover Plantation in Virginia. Evelyn married I. Townsend Burden and they lived between 115 East 70th Street in New York City and "Fairlawn" in Newport. They were prominent members of "The Four Hundred" as was her sister who married Robert Livingston Cutting Jr. The Burdens had four children: (1) Evelyn, died unmarried (2) I. Townsend Jr., married Florence Sheedy of Denver, Colorado (3) William, married Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, heiress to Florham and Vinland (4) Gwendolyn, married David Dows.