The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-09-12
NUMBER 25.


One Hundred SuitOrs Rejected.
Mis-. Hrnndy IN the Philadelphia Times.
Since there has beer so much
discussion in print about the will
Of the late Mrs. Dorsey. Of Missis.
sippi, OF making SO large bequest
to jefferson Davis, I thiHk your
readers maJ be- Interested to hear
more of the donors family and
their eccentricities. / have known
and now know several members of
this very talented family, whose
talents in two or three instances
hsve been nisdirected by an erratic
tendetSyj which was skillfully por-
tfayed by ore OF the family, Mrs.
WarfieM, in the well known novel,
"The Household of Bouverie."
! vas assared by one of the family
not long after the novel appeared
that, strange as its characters seem,
the story was really founded OH a
family history, and that Mrs. War
fields father the grandfather of
the recently deceased Mrs. Dorsey,
was the eccentric old man of the
story. 1t is easy to see how thrnly
BeaIeCit,' the name Of the fami-
ly residence, is disguised in
BOaverie1 There were three
Misses Percy, who were many years
ago. greatly admired bells is Mis-.
sissippf, and who also had literary
tastes. They published their poe.
try Jointly as the production of the
Three Sisters Of the South," as
nearly as I can remember the word
ing OF the title as repeated to me,
for ] never saw one of the volumes.
One sister becsn.e first Mrs. Ellis
Uife mother of Mrs. Dorsey and of
Mr., Percy Ellis OF Brooklyn, and
Mrs. IneS Peckhaai; of Louisiana,)
and subsequently, married General
Charles Dahlgren, who was the
brotliet ot the late Rear Admiral
Dahlgten. She also had other
children than those named. An
other sister became Mrs. Warfield,
to whose novel ] have alluded.
She died two or three years ago at
her county place hear Louisville,
ky.
THE third sister though whether
the youngest or not / cauuot say,
was so fullypersuaded of her pow
crs OF conquest as to. declare she
would never marry until she had
refused one hundred offers, and
have been assured she Kept her
word. She declined thst number
hut must have Rad ;lt least a senti-
ment in favor of No. 100, for |
have been informed tnat she always
kept his portrait hanging over her
bed even after marriage to No. 1g1,
which must hare been q comfort to
the latter. 1 think No. 100 died
young, aud before Miss Percy had
her romantic meeting with her
fate. That rencontre occurred after
the fashion so favored in novels.
The fair piercer of one hundred
hearts rode forth on her spirited
steed alone one day from her faith
er's plantation, near jackson,
Miss. Her horse became unmana.
geable when she was urging him
to cross q bayou, and forthwith
hero in the shape of u SOLITARY
hOrseman" appeared TO rescue the
and rode beside her after
the horse again became obedient
to the mistress. The stranger
gave good account of himself,
and being a handsome man made
such good use OF his time that the
began before they reach
I'd her fathers bouse. lie was in
fited to be GUEST there. aud hon
,rably confessed that he was too
Door to venture to ask Miss Percy
% wed him. But she said she had
enough tor both, and her father
gave them his blessing and plan
alton near Greeuvllle, Miss, where
hey resided after Miss Percy we'd.
led Major Lee, for that was the
lame of the one hundred aud first
Who sought her hand. / used to
inow two of the children of this
marriage. One, Kate, married
IbOut the time the war broke out,
South Caroliuian, who became a
olonel OF a cavalry regiment of
he Confederacy. His wife, as
pirited an equestrienue as her
mother, used to ride beside her
husband when his regiment was
narching. Her mother, Mrs. Lee,
lied long before the war. Iattend
ID, as school girl in Louisville,
he secoud wedding of Major Lee,
yho was then married to Miss
emma Knight, a well known belle
# that city. Both are now dead,
mt left children.