New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-12-25
J sketoh of the countess Rumford.

Miss Sarah Thompson Countess of Rumford, We be
fore stated, died at Concord H. on the 2d Inst ~
the 9TH the Rev DR. Bouton delivered discourse on .n
death Of the following extract from VINCE
forms an interesting biography: -,
Yesterday few family friends and ncquaintsnces .o
lowed to the grave aged ady known among Us as
Countess Rumford But whence did she derive .na. e's
to nobility Who was she? What was her origin w
her history The Countess Rumford was sns gaan Y
daughter Of Rev. Timothy Walker the first minister
this town She the only daughter Of Benjan
son. formerly resident Of this town and was bora on
spot where she died Oct Isl 17f4 Her father renarka
Bile his native talent and enterprise came to TINS
from Woburn, Mass, teacher, In lI2 and marrying
the eldest daughter wdow*-of Rev Mr. wafer
settled among But the Of the revolution came
being suspected Of principles and feelings adverse
the American he Obliged to flee FOR safety
first to bis native town. and then to BOSTON, unasr .n
protection of the British whence no was soon aIter
by Gen Gage, the baarer Of dispatches 70 England
Attracting the attention of the government there nt
found honorable employment till the close OF the reVou
Soon after that 1888 he went to- Germany was intro
duced to the Eector Of Bavaria and was employed by
him in various services civil and military, in which he
acquired most honorable distinction Residing awhile a
Munich the capital Of Bnvaria he became distinguishes
for his efforts to suppress the system OF Yaganc anu
reward in part his services he received from tns
Elector the title Of Count Of the Holy Roman Empire
with pension settled on him for life q nearly $zout
annually To this title he added that Of Ruford in re-
membrance Of his residence in this town. wnen was Ior
mery called by that About the year 1885 he sent
request to his daughter in this country to meet MIN IN
London which she ddher mother having previously de
ceased, 1892 aged fftytwo years. Subsequently the
daughter attended and shared the fortune OF her father
until death in France in 1874 The scenes and changes
in her eyentfu life are in many respects remarkable
The forsaken infant Of prosecuted father teeng from
uncrited reproach and insult protection from an enc
he had in arms orphan by the decease
only parent left to protect the nome OF mel
childhood to pass isolated life with her paterna grand
mother In adjacent State-a young girl in tho hey day
OF life encountering the pers of the Atlantic. at the call
of exed and to her long lost fther-a resident Of
the capitol Of Bavaria, when Munich about to be
Bombarded by the Austrian army, ami which was alone
prevented the stern energy of her father at that time
the commauder-in-chief Of the Barvarian forcesthe
caressed daughter of honored among the learned
of Europe and received among the elite Of the saloons
Of Pars-doubly orphan in foreign land and thence
nheting the estates and title Of her to
England and settling upon the paternal estate Of Brop
ton, near the English metropolis at will the
attentions Of the terat Of the British captaagan
resident at Paris and subject to all the nquietude natu
rally the result Of the revotionsts of the tickle govern
ment and People of Francethe Countess Rumford after
long absence returned in 1886 from her soourn in for
upon the spot haowsd BY the aiietons of father the
suffering of widowed mother and the tender recoec-
tiens of her own childhood
Here she died on the spot where she was bornon the
I'd Of Decsm inst aged years The Countess
married but left her chief adopted daugh
ter who assduously and aectionatey waited her in
the snities Of age in her last sickness and death The
Countess left very considerable property which she
saved from her fathers estates and from pension
nearly $1,000 annually that she received for nearly forty
years from the Bavaran government in consideration
her farthsrs services The last years Of her life
spent in quiet retirement enjoying the social intercourse
of few family friends and aequaintances She tast
fully ornamentcd with trees and shrubbery the grounds
about her residence and mindful doubt by her OWE
experiences Of the trials and to which orphans
subject She in her last will made charitable disposition
Of large portion Of her property and particularly
UNDERSTOOD tho place where she resided and the
Of about QUO for the establishment there Of asylum
for widows and female orphan children of Concord Hel
remains inferred in the old buyng ground by the
side Of her mother and near the graves of the Wake,
family. 3taat =l4 . 90