From Mount Vernon to the Ritz: The Fitzgeralds and the Washingtons

Among the mourners at the funeral of Scott’s grandmother Cecilia Aston Scott Fitzgerald in 1924 were the Forrest family, a distinguished Washington family whose ancestral home in Georgetown, Cecilia had stayed at during her early years in the capital. The head of the Forrest family was well-known government attorney Randolph Keith Forrest, the nephew of…