Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-11-11

Correspondenee Of the Nsoark Daily Adrsrastr.
OLD MRS. PYE OF TlIE HALF WAY HOt 81.
ALBANY. Oct 81. lS43.
Perhaps few OF yonr readers have heard al Old
Mrs- Pye. ofhe Half way house between this city
aud Troy. She 10 iamous in th'~e paris. aud known
10 thousands of travellers the no shot
the robber n her bedroom very many years ago
She has ju II been buried. aud knew you " i'll he
amused and Interested with "reminiscences OF
her life.
In early life she came TO This country from England
and married man by the Ut Pye. who kept
small tavern ON the turnpike TO Toy. then the
chief and almost the Ouiy between the two
cities. Though her husbands name WINS on the
sign p,si. he c''uld never say. 'nace dad when
stranger drove up Suddenly his doot and asked.
Are you the man OF the housed
Yes said boniace. my vile has been dead these
three weeks
MOI M With IN ne host Of the half way house, Mrs
Pyc Was the man al the twv could be proved by
a hundred fseE. Take ose. After they had lived
some yran GA The piac-. paying annual rent for
u. u mortgage ou IL be ioreclosed and the
place sod. Pye ivld his wife they give up.
as he hSd not the means To buy IL, but she io
another room Of the house aud brought cal Ace
thousand dollars in sIlSer. Which she had hosrd-
lup in shilings. &c, fron the earnings OF the bar;
and knowing that she would make safer sub
treasurer than The nominal head OF the government
she had taken charge of the funds, and pro-
duced them al a tiIne Of need So the place wur
paid for ard they became prspri.iurs.
Some time afer~ ards. perhaps the repprt ul Mrs
Pyes habits of boarding specie being spread alroad
| thief nnderioek To remove tho depo-iies. and hr
this purpose entered toe bed ch amber Of Mr. and
Mrs Pye nj The dead hour Of night. They bath
| awakened BY his msvemeLis, and the iimId hus ad
covered himself up With the bed clothes. while The
Amazon wife seized lOad-i gun. which they al
ways kept standing by the bed side. aud shot the
r..l.f. -.
account is uue all The merit Of the belongs 10
tho " oman.
But Mr. Pye died in course OF time, lea wing the
widow ss,e heiress Of his now handsome properly
There but drawLa 10 Mrs Pye's hapr
ness, and that was debt of five hundred dollar.
due 10 The bnrkeeper Tor hts services. She loved
nancy well that she coUd not hear To part with ~
much in one sum. tnd So she compounded the debt
ny marrying the creditor.
But Mrs Pycs usual prudence failed her IN hi.
marriage, Tor she forget her property, ari
by aud 10y her secord husband died. leaving the
bulk of he property 10 relatives ia Eng lnIrL
while the widuw reviewed but lrIlc sum. whici,
with industry aud JnOny. barely enough lor
ter support. She has lived ia The same neighbor
hOoi until lasi we elk. when. nj The oge uf ntnefs
etghf years. she ~as gathered with The dsHtI
For some years past she has had her gruye clothes
prepared. aud lIns been the haoii OF dressing
herselfin them befre the looking III sss To see how
sne ~ou'u iook' AL tut her cap; sic said the asun
OF caps altered oen that she would leave that 10
be made when u wanted.
The gentry in the neshboihood have been
TAI the habh Of visiting her aud minisierng To hcr
wants. and she distributed among them NIL her ei
fecis. such az table One. chair 10 other, The
gun 10 another (she always kept iI) aud requested
Ihui slIe might lac three days AID then lie buried
and on the hhh day that her legaiees should come
and get their hihgG
These Iai u. and many more thai 4 mipht mon
lion. maIie,s Of noioreiy IN the region Of hel
life and death. and that she has been buried
Ia large gold plaie her cofiin. bought ~ith hei
savings for that express purposs,) do moi know
that any harm will come from publishing them.
Yours truly. Il w.