Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-05-12
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ORPHANS PATRIMONY
By RUTH.


BY RUTH.
LILLY WILSON was an orphan, having lost
both parents from Cholera, in the summer Ct
1882, when that dreadful disease ragged so fear
fully Throughout the entire State Of New York,
and many OF her States Of tho Union.
Lilly was nine years old when her parents
died. Two brothers and sister had died
few weeks previous, from the same terrible
malady, leaving the little Lilly without near
relative this side of the Atlantic, as both her
father and mother were of English parentage,
having married and removed to this country in
1921. Hiram Wilson, the father Of Lilly, was
physician, and had come to America because ne
preferred the Government Of our Uniou to the
monarchy of England. So choosing for himself
q wife, in order, as he said, " to make sure of
one disinterested friend" he came to New York,
anticipating long, happy, and useful life; but
after eleven short years of usefulness and en-
ioyment, he passed away from earth,. carrying
with him his dear and beloved Eliza-the part
ner of his many joys and few sosrows. In life
they were united, and in death they were not
divided.
After the business of the estate was settled,
the property Of Hiram Wilson amounted to
lust two thousand dollars, the interest of which
was to be appropriated to the support and edu-
cation of the little orphan.
The child, now left to the purchased kindness
and unloving care of strangers, was indeed most
dcso]ate. No wonder then that she "mourned
rs one without hope," for she was delicate
child, had but little property, and was but lily
suited to battle with the troubles and trials OF
life. After the death of her father, brother
practitioner of his, DR.. Ostram, offered the
orphan home in lis family, saying "that he
wou]d do the best he could for her with her
limited means"
So Lilly was removed from the pretty dwell
ling in Bleecker Street, to the residence OF DR..
Ostram in East Broadway. How this lone
child felt, only they who have been left moth
erless can know. My own joyleSs childhood
has taught me the deepest commiSerstlon and
sympathy for those deprived IN infancy VI
their parents.
DR.. Ostram had two daughters, Emily and
Jane, now nearly grown-Emily being sixteen
and Jane thirteen years of age. Neither Of
them possessed any great amount of character
or, in other words, they were what might be
called commonplace; though their father afford
ed them every opportunity for improvement
that wealth could command.
Mrs. Ostram, or rather Mrs DR.. Ostram, (as
she always signed her name,) was lady ol
tolerably good education, and rather quick per-
ception, but she too was commonplace. l<have
heard it said, that, as general rule, children
are more apt to take their mental qual'hcatlons
,erom the mother than the father; and ii such
70. lily is the case, DR.. Ostram's family were no
exec, ,tion to the common rule Now Mrs os-
tram y -as not Intentionally. unkind and cruel,
hrt che lid not like the child broughtso unceri-
rnon;ouslv in toher family, and this she let the
rt,,a ornban know every hour Of every day. +,
How true it is that life is made up of little