 (quoted in MacDonell, 31)" Belle spent two seasons at Frankfort, the Kentucky state capital, with her brother John (he was a Senator at the time), and she spent a few weeks in New Orleans at Mardi Gras for the social scene there.She spent the summer of 1888 attending assemblies at Chautauqua, New York where she met many women activists, scholars and religious leaders, including Lucy Rider Meyer, the founder of a training school in Chicago for women in the Northern Methodist Church to do missionary work.In 1888 Samuel Bennett died, and Belle left "Homelands" with her mother, older sister and two younger brothers to live in a new house her mother built in Richmond.