Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-09-29
SAD FATE
oT 1hE DAUGHTER OF AN Ex-GoyERS
OR OF FLORIDA,
New York DisDatch y

WV" AoEk dispatch
n "A week ago there died in the aim,
"ouse at Newport, Kentucky, opros1t
N"clhhatl, u woman whose social recor
ON the western continent is a remark
able one. He, story is we'll known :,
'"a"y. "A brief res"me Of it, howeve,
VIII "e OF interest to all read .rs of tn
"'spo'ch. Helen Maude Woseiy vas th.
o"iS ch'id OF late ex-governor of Flori
ga. Educated in a French convent
reared IN what is termed the clap of lux
"ry, she was, two years before the civi
war, the belle of the southern Watering.
places and a leader in the society tu
which her fathers wealth and s.mi;l
stanc ing gave her the cnt,ee. In 1859
sue married a prominent physician in
savannah, Georgia In 1860 she was at
tended at childbirth by another we'll
known member of the Escnlapian guild
"t that city. The acquaintance thus lie.
gan rlpened into illicit intimacy and the
discovery Of the liason resulted in a di-
vorce and the abandonment Of the youn.-
wife by her husband. Her lover soon
tired OF her, and the ou+ u+bre:.k of the war
lo!lhd her penniless and friendless in S,-
vannah. She then made the acouain-
tance OF man who afterwartl became q
comnilssary-s general and a large contrac-
tor in the service of the Confederacv
and lived with him until the entry of
the Union troops into Savannah, when
lie He'd with Brags's army. On the
morning after tlu occupation of the citv
ny the Federal army, Young officer of
an Ohio regiment, who had been posting
guards in the street, saw her ut her gar
den gate, and asked her for glass of
water. Learning that she was alone, he
posted guard over her house, and by
various other attentions soon came to oc-
cupy the place Of the absent contractor
Her house, during this period, was a fa-
vo:ite resort of many Union officers but
'he is said to have been nna!terahly faith
III t" the one. In conversation with a ,
''*pafeh .eporter, one "t'tlc then habitues I
u the house describes "Nelly Walsh" as I
he called herself, rs u lady in every
cnse, OF social aud intellectual tleveIop- I
hent. Previous to the war she had writ I.
en- 1"r paperS-notably the New York I
'edyer-over the name of ''Flora d, For e
ST.. She was woman Of IL deeply de- :
otloNal nature, and to use the inform q
nt's own words, ..,lrauk and ate u,,i,uu. r
XIII her memory When the regiment |,
her lover left Savannah, Nelly Walsh II
pplled to one of the generals in charge e
II soldier Whose name stands amon.- =,
ie ilrst III the records of the rebellion h.
II Il continuance of the protection. The f.,
'nera1 did more. He assumed that 1u- -,
himself, and when he took charge of n,
department, one of his adjutanrs escort hi
the fair rebel in his train. She lived r.,
it'll him for several years. and when he II.
rs appointed to Il mission abroad he 81.
Ok her with him. His efforts to secure of
+ u social standing there, and, after liz
return, III this country, cilse.l great p:
'ndal and tlnttering i'll high society. o,
cl"ng to her faithfully, however. and du
was only when the OPT um habit gained in
uinous ascendency over her that he left ~,
r, even then giving her a considerable 3
-" OF money. OF this am, mn. .i,e 81 products
"'' pen S':: nved for IL c::;;uple of years N,
re- ing for several of the local Sc lnt
l papers; but her besettiny sin brought or
r down step by step until her brain IN
used its office, and she disappeared. tin
W she lived from that time until, half ca,
zed and wholly broken down and ne!
peless. she obtained admission to the co,
W York p"orhouse, will never be Lo
OWN. Her identity was established we
nj her incoherent rawlings and few CO,
nnants of letters in her pockets. For sio
nks before she died she was insane. sol
cry night and morning, instinctively, crc
it were, she repeated the prayers learn pr.
in her happy youth in her French as
ool, and her last words were Il snppli- vot
ion to her Creator. In her Inaddened pul
ments the recital of IL verse OF poetry era
nd calm her. She asked continually to
her child-a little girl long since deal Sta
he very child in giving birth to whom yer
lad met her seducer. No word ever Oil
,ped her us to her own life since 1878. Spe
physician $ report serves as a preg- owe
t comment on the frightful habit to he
ch she was II slave. For two weeks eme
7ious to her death she consumed two zen
ces of lahdhnnm a day"
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