The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-11-12
Death CT q Heroine.

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seventeen years old, when she heard
IN her home of the fearful ravages OF
therest in Memphis and that nurses
We're lacking, at once without consul
ting her parents or friends. started for
tile death stricken city, aud on arriv-
ing there at once reported to the How
ards for duty. DR.. Blackburn their
chief physician, gave her that night
the care of a woman stricken with the
fever and thereby brought to a prena-
ture confinement. She was only on
duty in this unselfisl. devoted spirit,
nursing the sick and attending on the
dying, thnugh totally unaccustompd TO
snc' work, for two weeks, when she
was herself taken Gcwn with the fever.
The modest girl was, unknown to her
self, the object Of profound admiration
and respect, even from stern, gray
headed old men and the toughest wo-
men. She was nursed and tended.
therefore, with the most assiduous
care and tenderness, but her frail BODY
overstrained, doubtless, by the labor
and trials she had endured, yielded to
the disease. and on the 18th she died,
and was buried on the 18th.
!
The Memphis papers all pay the
most touching tributes of regret for
this good and gentle m,iden's untime-
ly fate. We cannot refrain from Civ
ing space to some passages of the APP
peai's pathetic sketch: -
When it was announced at the How
ard Association rooms on Madison
street that the little girl was dead, q
pang of sorrow peTyaded every heart.
and preparations were at once made to
follow her remains to the crowded CITY
of the dead.
| The Heroic had arrived here with
out change of garments, and her
wardrobe was on her person, or in d
little satchcl she brought. She de-
clined any pay for her duty, and re
used t" accept articles offered in the
way of clothing. So, writing back
home for ii few needed articles, box
was sent by express in return, which.
only came here day before yesterday.
when she was too low to know any
thing OF it. Yesterday, in presence of
one or two persons, Mr.. Langsta(f'
opened the package to find, ifpossible,
some trace of the girls history. A
couple OF clean, plain calico dresses,
some cuffs, a few garments Of under
wear. several packages OF nck-nacks,
evidently put up by tiny hands of
loved kindred for their angel of mercy
to distribute among the sick, these
were all the box contained, and they
were all carefully repaclzed aud laid
aside, while the bystanders shed tears,
and. turned away in silence.
/ The Howards passed appropriate
Ionors to her memory. AS the solemn
funeral procession passed through the
streets, the people looked or il; reve-
rent silence. Al: tie grave, the Rev.
NJ NJ. Dogus, said:
must not trespass upon the precious
time couSecrated to the humane task
of caring for the living. You OF the
Howard Association may not liDger
even by Il spot so hallowetl as the grave
of this brave and tender woman. saw
her but once, aud under the most try
ing circumstances to which modest
girl could be placed. 1t was in the
! chamber of a victim of this fearful
scourge, who had been hurried by it
into the pangs of motherhood. Terror
had broken the tendcrcst ties of life.
Men had nerved themselves to face the
danger 10y strong drink; women, ell,
crwise so ready with their sympathy
and aid in that hour of agony, whose
bitterness only q woman can know,
stood aloof with pale faces and parted
lips. A slender, shy girl lowered over
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