Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-18
The Last Of a Noted Lady.

DEATH OF MRS. c. &. BOWEN nee PErIGRU.
A Charleston Is. c. letter i'll the New York
Sun, dated December -, says:
Another event of moment has agitated our
old community. They have been called to
recognize the fact that Mrs. e. c. Bowen is
dead, and to pay the last tribute to her and
her family name. They have done IL molly.
She was attended to her last resting place on
Sunday by many Of the oldest and best cit
Zens OF this city-people who never associ-
ated with her in the latter days OF her event
full life. Her pall-bearers were the Hon. c.
III. Simonton, ex-speaker of the old time
house of representatives of South Carolina;
the Hon. Thomas Y. Simons, chairman Of
the democratic committee of the state; Mai.
Willis; Gen. Quincy, the state commissioner
the merchant prince of Charleston; and Mr..
BabOit, an old King street merchant, whose
long coats Mrs. Petigru, the mother of Mrs.
Bowen, used to criticize as unbecOming
clerk.
Mrs. Bowen was buried at st. Michaels
church, alongside OF her father (the Hon.
James l.: Petgrul. The church was well
filled with many of Mr. Petigru's old friends,
and the customary services were held. Toe
funeral cOrtege consisted of fewer carriages
than usual, and several OF these were occu-
pied by old family servants. Many OF Bow
ems white friends flied along the sidewalk.
The whole was under the direction OF ex-
Chancellor Lesense, the former law copart-
Der OF Mr.. Petigru, most excellent gentle
man. Mrs. Bowen's Immediate family. from
whom she had long been separated. ha vim.
been recQnciled TO her in her last illness ,wers
III aIUSHOdDpS.
Mrs Bowen was the daughter of the great.
est lawyer this state has ever produced. He
was OF HugenOt extraction, and his family
settled in Abbeville county, the home of the
CalhOuns. DevOting himself entirely to his
profession, and ignoring the ideas of Mr..
Calhoun, Mr.. Petigru removed TO Charleston,
where he rose to the zenith OF intellectual
power. His daughter Susan was one OF twb
children, and she inherited his fOrtune-his
gift of intellect, for worldly goods he hal
none. Early in life she married Henry c..
son of the Hon. Michael King-the Macenas
of Charleston. Mr.. aud Mrs. King did not
live happily together. They had one child,
Adele, the present beautiful Mrs. Middleton.
serving as captain of the Calhoun Guards, OF
Charleston.
During the war Mrs. King and her daugh-
ter retired to Greenville, under the noun
tains, where they passed for the prettiest of
imported beauties, in comparison with the
mountain flowers. After the war. under the
rising star Of Andy Johnson, Mrs. King
went to Washington. where she was APP
pointed to clerkship in the department
Here, under the auspices of the great Ken
lucky preacher, the blind Mr.. Milburn, she
{. Bowen, the representative under repub-
lican rule OF her native district. He was
capable man, of full sway among his con-
sii,uents. They were married. General
Sherman gave the bride away. President
Grant pardoned the bigamist Bowen for the
Geed--the temptation was more than hui
manity could Withstand.
Alter their marriage Bowen treated her
well. She had an abundance of everything
she desii ed, except society; this followed her
TO her grave.