Mary Mayo Crenshaw

Mary Lyons Mayo Crenshaw (August 5, 1875 - November 6, 1951) was an American author and civil servant who edited the book An American lady in Paris, a travel journal about her great-grandmother Abigail Dehart Mayo's journey to Paris in 1828. Life and work She was born in 1875 to William Carrington Mayo and Margaretta Ellen Wise Mayo, the granddaughter of Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise. She lived in Washington D. C. She was married to Richard Parker Crenshaw, a mining engineer, on October 16, 1902, and the couple moved to Cuba in 1904 where he worked in the Camoa quarry. The family lived in Havana until returning to the United States in 1914. They had two children Richard Parker (1902) and Ellen Wise (1906). Upon their return to America, the Crenshaws worked at the Bureau of War Risk where Mary founded the translations section. She was the member of many heritage societies including the Daughters of the Cincinnati, Daughters of Holland Dames, Colonial Lords of Manors in America, and the National Society of Colonial Dames. She was also one of the founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution's Havana Chapter in 1907. Richard Crenshaw died in 1929. Mary Crenshaw died in 1951. She is buried with her husband in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.