Early Life
Susan Beverly Sitgreaves was born on April 17, 1863 at Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of six children raised by Julius A. and Eliza B. Sitgreaves. Her father, a native of South Carolina, worked as a copyist, and had married her mother, a Virginian, in 1862. Julius A. Sitgreaves was one of two men, the other, South Carolinian newspaper editor Edmund Ruffin, credited with firing the first shot in the American Civil War at the onset of the battle for Fort Sumter. At the time of his death in 1912, Julius Sitgreaves was an editorial writer for the publication American Art News in New York City. Beverly Sitgreaves received her early education at Mount de Chantal Academy near Wheeling, West Virginia, not far from where she and her family had settled after the war.
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