Lucy May Stanton of Caribbean sugar, molasses, and rice. Lucy May Stanton was given a set of oil paints and began to learn to paint when she was seven years old. Mme Sally Seago, a French artist in New Orleans, gave Stanton lessons in New Orleans. In Atlanta, she lived across the street from Wren's Nest, the home of author and journalist Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote the Uncle Remus stories and shared his stories with her and her sister, Willie Marion Stanton. Her mother, Frances Megee Stanton, died in 1888. In 1889–1890 she took a tour of Europe with her father and
George Remus George Remus George Remus (November 14, 1874 – January 20, 1952) was an American lawyer and bootlegger during the Prohibition era. Remus was known to have referred to himself in the third person after his rise to power during the early days of Prohibition, which he reportedly continued to do until his death. It has been claimed that he was the inspiration for the title character Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Remus was born in Berlin, Germany in 1874 to Frank and Maria Remus. Remus' family moved to Chicago by the time he was 5.