Litchfield enquirer., 1877-10-18
A FAMOUS scoTcH woMAN.

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 Miss Graham, II Dnasra.ie. a asds. s.weii known and greatl8 respeesed. aud Hho is
 remarkable for her historical connection Eas yell as for her great age-haying com Ipleted her ninety fifth year in May last died on Thursday afternoon at her ~resl-
 dence at Duntrune She made her Inst appearance Tn public in Dundee on May Ir20. 1875, on the occasion of the launch from the yard of Messrs. Alex. Stephen & Sons. one of the ineofthe Dundee clippers
 which vas naued q the Dnnfrune. irl her hpnor, she herself successfully performing the naming ceremony. Since then she be- gan to feel more decidedly than before tthe weakness of adyaneila BsardA ana Though able to move aI36nt a@ usuAE ske
 was ultimately compslIed about f6ftnidtf tago to confine herself to her room. It men became apparent to her medical ad- wiser, Dr. James Arrott, Of, Dundee.thaf her days were fast darwing to close. and yesterday afternoon she breathed her last. Miss Clementia Stirllng Graham waa horn Fin the Seagate, Dundee, on the 4thE If May, 1782 She was the daughter of Pat rick Stirling, Esq. of Pittendreigh, For farshirey and of Amelia, the lelder dauQh- ter, and one'of the four co-heirs of Alex ander Graham, of Dunturne. who died in 1 1904, the othes co -heirs being Anne Gle.
 mentia and Alison. Miss CT aharn was l the last representative of the family of Glaverhouse. She had keen perception of the dEoll and shuna0fons, and was we'll known in Edinburgh society in the paIIny
 days of Jeffrey. fifty years ago. Gifted
 with extraordinary powers of mimicry, her lpersonations at private parties were so per- | feet and unique that even those who knew her best were thoroughly deceived and icould scarcely believe, after the mystery had been explained, that they had been
 made the victims ofsdeeeption. One of the most interesting of tIjese personifca- lions took place in. 1921, in the house of Mir. Jeffrey, after@ards Lord Jeffrey. He had previously asked her to give per- fkopation of an old zlhdy in his houses awhich she consented to do, but in order to hayera ittleumusementat at MT. Jeffrey's expehse, she resolved to call upon him as 'I,ady Pitlayal." to ask his opinion on an imaginary law plea, which she alleged her agent unsuccessfuily conducted. On the occasion she drove to Mir. Jeffrey's house in the carriage of Lord Giihes gandY was Iaccompanied by a young lady as her daughter. The pers0nifcationw was so art
 full and complete that Jeffrey did not dis
 cover till the day after that he hadwhim- self been successfully duped. This epi- sode created such amusement in the fash Iionable circles in Edinburgh thata an ac-
 count of it found its way into Blackwood's s
 Magazins. AlfulI account ofIthat person
 stion Afd many others is gwen in Miss although originally printed on the urgent N n;A af HnEE 1 ly circulated, was afterwards given to the
 Scott, who was himself spectator of I 8 personation by Miss Graham, thus. writes regarding it.: March I. Went to my
 Lord Gillies's to dinner, and witnessed a singular exhibition of personation. Miss tStifling Graham,a lady of the family from
 which Claverhouse was descended, looks like thirty years old, and has face, of
 the Scottish cast, with good expression lin point of good sense and good humos. Her convefsation, 50 far as I'have had the advantage of hearing it, is shrewd and sensible but nowaYs brilliant. She dned
 with us, went of as, to the play, and re, turned in the character of an old Scottish lady. Her dress and behavior were ad.
 mirable, and the, conversation unique. I
 was in the secret, of fc,,urse, did my best 1 to keep np the ball. but she cnt me ont of all feather. The pressing account she
 gave of her son, the antiquary, who found
 an apld wig in 2 slate duafry. was extreme lly ludicrous. and she puzzled the profess For of agriculture with merciless account Iof thes succession of the crops in the parks around her old mansion house, No per:
 son to whom the secret was entrusted
 had the least guess ofan imposition ,eex.
 cept the shrewd young ladies presenee who observed the hand narrowly and saw it
 was plumper than theage of the EladE seemed to warrant.o This lady, and Miss Bell, of Coidstream, have this gift of per. sonation to a much greater degree than
 any pers6nI ever saw" Miss Graham al-
 so published in 1929. the 'sBee Preserver, @ tfanslatien of the work of M. de Gelien.
 on which she received the medal of the Highland Society. Miss Gtaham retained
 full possession of aH ,Aer faculties to the
 last. She possessed ka4 hrgel circle of
 fri nds; indeed she never had an enemy
 She was beloved of all who knew her
 rich and poor-and from her genial and
 exemplary bearing to the one, and her lib-
 ierality and her kindly disposition to the
 other, she earned and sustained high
 place in.their. esteem and affection. .a and
 uow that klie is no more, they lament her death, ,AbnkMill hot coon forget her menaos try,