The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-15
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A Morui Heroiues Reward.

"Diad, Oh Tuesday, August ota, 1861, IN
Staunton, Va, Of typhoid fever, MARY II AMP
DGs WIsHT, daughter OF John and Margaret
y. Wight, of or near Norfolk, III the 10Th year
OF her a.e'
Such is the common place notics OF the mar
tyrdOm OF u WOman,-a lady whose LeGoism
WAS not second TO that OF Florence Night
ingals,-shs OF Albion and Scutari, whose
meIited fame was spread world wide while
yet her heroic deeds were being performed
and whose slghtest change Of health is ever
yet tQs family made known through ChriEten-
dom with feelings OF sadness or emotions OF
JOY, as such change may De for better or worse.
Her death was as much Il martyrdom 10
some OF the South's brave defenders lis though
she had, by the process OF TRANSMISSION, given
the last OF her precious blood unto their veins
for the preservation of their lives the neces-
sary destruction OF her own.
Leaving her business, the source of hersup
port, her little less noble devotion TO the you n
OF her native place, Norfolk, the cradle OF the
historic greatness of our American more than
Florence N htingale, Miss Mary Andrews
leaving these, and ali the comforts OF home,
parents, relatives, and friends, she came The
first one OF the many noble ones she--caIne
to this dull village, '.the hospital town.
came all alone, as TO females, into this great
bazaar, the Smith Hospital, came not as the
curious come, to see, 70 speak an Idle word or
two of intended cJmf0rt, to administer, per-
chance, for form s sake, with dissembled yet
not hidden distaste, some slight material COM
fort TO the sick soldiers-came not thus; hut,
she came as did the Samaritan 10 the travel
er, as did Mary TO the dead Christ, as did she
OF Louisiana TO the plaR ue-strlcken OF Nor
folk, as did "Sainte Philomena" to the Cri-
mean soldiers at ScutaTi,-came earnestly
whole ledly, and religiously Jealous TO the
lonely suffering soldiers, and nursed them as
Won Id Sister OF Charity,-as would sis ter,
aye as a mother
Her minisrrations were not those of form
bat were those of dsed-deeds not intermst-
tent or transient; but con tinuous and endur-
ing. She sat not seifishiy or prudshly aioof
from her patients until their manly Tor bear
ance, overcome by their swelling anguish,
called timidly for relief; but she stayed,
whether waking or doZing, by their sides,
ticipating their every want
Had this been only to the uIdiseased wound
cd, she would have merited praise; and had
she 10 this died only from exhaustion, she
would have deserved a golden monument OF
memory in the heart OF her country; but
when, as was the case. these minis ira tons
were to the sick-the intectiousiy diseased.
from W hom she died, she deserves-what shall
l have itf
Let those now recovered soldiers upon the
tented Held, and those con valeeceuts now
amid the endearments OF home, whose TO
nswed lives are parts Of her lite given them;
let their parents, relatives and friends; let her
gra teful country and an appreciating
world, say what shall be her reward
For, unlike the manly soldier, she veutnred
not within the gates CT death under the
tanning in aence OF martial music, Of enthu-
static multitudee, and the surety OF eiory's
reward-Eor yet, for n pecuniary coIsideIa
tion but she visited the charnal precincts
from Z rsligiousiy patriotic sens9 OF duty.
Beside those solemn portals made her
cheerful acquaintance, and, as stimulation
cannot be upon the stage she trod so nobly, l
feel that l knew her we'll, and we'll say
that no purer. sweeter soul dew drop was
ever from the HermoL Of virtue absorbed into
Heaven by the sun-ray of duty performed
HER FElESD, MAGa,E