Background
Pickard, Florence Willingham was born on March 7, 1862 in Smyrna, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Thomas Henry and Cecilia Matilda (Baynard) Willingham.
Pickard, Florence Willingham was born on March 7, 1862 in Smyrna, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Thomas Henry and Cecilia Matilda (Baynard) Willingham.
Educated Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Georgia, 1874-1877. Miss Sallie Reynold’s School, Albany, Georgia, 1877-1879. Woman’s College, Richmond, Virginia, fall term, 1879.
Mary Baldwin’s Seminary, Staunton, Virginia, 1879-1881 (gold medal in art under Madame Garcia, Paris). Studied art abroad, under Lucke, Dresden, 1905, 13.
Artist; paintings exhibited in Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee.
Married William Lowndes Pickard, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, June 15, 1886. Children: Julia Baynard (Mistress Ralph E. Bailey), Florence Martha (Mistress L. Roland Harrison), William Lowndes (deceased), Elizabeth Belle (Mistress Paul Daggett Karsten).