Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-07-07

man, going from patient to patient, i'd
mlnlstenng to the wants of each and saving
many from death. Htt
l. feopie were not all as enlightened and
unpreludiced as they are now, aud, failing
TO understand how she arrived at her con-
clusions, they could imagine no better
source than Voudouism. At first she en-
couraeed this idea, and delighted to cover
her actions with an air Of mystery. Nurses
would frghten their charges into silence by
the name of the Vouaou Queen, and the
cnildren thus grew up in fear of her. Many
older people had more real cause to dread
Marie. There were very few secrets of any
nature which she did not know. Where
ever there was skeleton in the family
closeeMarie held the key. But she was
tr1e totne confidence reposed in her and
dld not turn knowledge to any unjust ad-
vantage She knew of many proud homes
~here q whisper concerning the taint Of col
orea blood would have spread CONSERVATION,
putrshe was silent and did not even extort
money for not Overthrowing their standing
In society. She was often placed on the
stana 10 Threats Of f9encerning nc such matters,
her to unsea her lps,s II %ss 66ap|d saw fQyee
the families had become naughty aad ar
rogant. and were cruel and brutal to their
dependents that she told all she knew, and
her disclosures, brought terrible. disgrace
upon those who had called forth her wrath.
In moments of passion she shrieked out
imprecations and curses, and her relatives
say, and tremble as they tell it, that even
when she launched the doom of death
against those who had merited her dis
pleasure her words came true, the victims
expiring with frightful agonies at the stated
time. -. .,
Captain Glapion died on June 26, 1856,
leaving Marie, who had been the mother
of his fifteen children, to mourn his loss.
His death caused great change in her life,
and she turned to the church, which she has
never been accused of deserting, for con-
ISOLATION. Not only did she increase her
own devotion, but loved to bring others in
to its bosom. Marie would often visit the
cells Of the condemned, and turn the
thoughts of those soon to be led out to
atone for their crimes to their Saviour Her
coming was considered blessing by the
prisoners, because if they would excite her
pity her powerful influence would often
obtain their pardon or at least commuta-
ton Of sentence. About five years after
the death of her husband she became ill
and was some time confined to her bed. As
she grew older her ills increased ,!and final
ly she could scarcely leave her bed. She
lay in large, old fashioned walnut bed
stead, in the front room of the little house
which she had never left and in which her
mother had lived before her. When her
eyes opened in the morning, and before
their closing at night they rested on sacred
pictures and crucifxes. She erected
an altar in her room, and wax tapers were
kept burning night and day. Although no
more of the gay scenes of former years
were enacted in the house it was still open
to all corners, who were welcome to food
and lodging. She gave advice with the
same willingness as ever, and never ceased
IN her eudeavors to accomplish good. She
had through her practices acquired some
money, which she invested in property, the
revenue of which, and the contributions of
people she had befriended, served to sup
port her in her declining years. She lay in
her bed during many long days, bealing
ill-will to none, listening to the conversa-
ton of the unfortunates who crowded her
yard, for they had but to push open the
gate and enter, and were never disturbed.
Marie always remained true to the people
Of her section, and during the war of the
1CUOlllOll 5lC oltl IN nor 1ANTror To oES1af
the southern interest, hiding and caring
their property at the risk of her own goods
and liberty. Before her memory became
weakened by nge and illness, she was full
of rich "reminiscences which she delighted to
relate TO those who understood how to ques-
ton her. A favoIite subject with her was
the life Of her father, to whose picture she
would refer her auditor. He was greatly
honored and served in the legislature of the
state. She spoke of visit of his to San
Domingo, and breakfast which he gave
there upon which he expended thousands
of dollars. She alluded in touching terms
to Governor Claiborne's young Tennessee
bride, who died soon after her arrival here,
and was carried with her dead babe upon
her bosom to lonely grave in the corner
of the Old American Cemetery. Mazereau,
the man of brilliant eloquence and dissolute
habits, was a fayorite of hers, it being said
by some that he was one of the most ardent
of her youthful lovers. Sometimes she told
Of the strange little man, with the bri CHIT gilt
tering eyes, Aaron Burr, who spoke Sc
pleasantly, while yet so dangerous. He
sought her out and enlisted her sympathy
the day after he come ashore at the levee,
and though she thought him strange, bad
man, his future history always concerned
her, and she eagerly sought news of his
movements. She was proud of her inter-
view with Lafayette, who, when he visited
New Orleans, over fifty years ago, called
at her house and impaired o warm kiss up
on her forehead at parting. Mary Laveau
was one of the band of colored people who
escorted to the tomb, long since dismant-
led, in the old Catholic cemetery, the re-
mains of the scared and grizzly French
general, Humbert. The hero of Castlebal
was often visitor at her house, and she
was rich with an anecdote concerning him
The pious Father Antoine, of blessed mem
ory, met her often at the bedside of the
dying, she to ease their sufferings durins
their last moments in this life, and he tc
give hope of salvation in the life beyond
Marie Laveau, one of the most wonderful
woman who ever lived, passed peacibly
away. Her daughter, Nine. Philomel LIE.
gendre, the only survivor of all Captain
Glapion's chi tdren, who possess many Of
of the characteristics Of her mother, an6
Nine. Legendres two pretty daughters
ninistered to the old lady's last wants
She died without a struggle, with a smile
tightening mp her shriveled features. She
was inferred in her family tomb, by the
side of Capt. G.apion, in the old st. Louis
Cemetery, and with her is buried the mos
thrilling portion of the unwritten records o.
Louisiana. Although Marie Laveaul
history has been very much sought aft er
it has never been published. Cable ha
endevored to portray her IN the character
of Palmyre, in his novel of the "Grandis
simes." The secrets of her life, however
could only be obtained from the old lad,
herself, but she would never tell the small
est part of what she knew, and now he
lips are closed forever, and, rs she coul,
neither read or write, not scrap is left tt
| chronicle the events of her exciting life
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