The Civil War Pension Files of
Green and Harriet Dameron of Missouri. of Missouri.
Tadd Dameron of
Cleveland, OH, & New York City. Jazz musician
Gene Hovis, a native of
North Carolina, has been a caterer, restaurant
consultant, professional chef, and food stylist. A
notable figure in New York City social circles, he has been featured in the
in the New York Times and other publications.
The International Best Dressed List for 2000-2001
included Gene Hovis as one of the Best-Dressed Men of the Year.
He is the author, with Sylvia
Rosenthal, of
Uptown Down Home Cookbook,
Little, Brown & Co., 1987.
In this work, Mr. Hovis writes of his maternal grandmother, Mary Cooper Dameron. She was born in the
mid-1800s in North Carolina,
the daughter of slaves. As a young child she was taken into the home of a
British-born
family named Cooper. She married George Dameron and had seven children. Mr.
Hovis briefly shares
some of his memories Granny Dameron.
