Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
A Retired Belle at LeadviIle. Col.-DOei
Anybody Know Her Name?

Anybody Know Her Name?
Few persons know that in the city of
Leadville, Col, there lives one of the most
celebrated women of her day. Men at
fashionable watering places raved over
her beauty and varied accomplishments.
President Buchanan is credited with say
ing: "The only woman l ever loved well
enough to marry. God bless herr And
that little man of intellect, Alexander IL.
stephens: ''The most beautiful, accom-
plished and thoroughly good woman I
ever knew. Worth her weight in dia-
monds." Col. Dan McCook, the evening be-
fore he was killed In battle, said to
cOmrade: Il feel sad tonight; why, l
cannot tell. Perhaps it is my last night
on earth. | was thinking of my old
college days in Alabama and the most
attractive woman ever met. Well. it is
all past, we are both married, but wish
she may never know a sorrow" Gen.
Pat Cleburne, having a premonitiOn of
his death, asked this lady to write his
obituary If he should fall in battle the
next day. The battle of Franklin and
| Cleburne's death have passed to history.
The touching little poem that care out in
the Memphis Avalanche by this lady, and
/ was so extensively copied in Southern
| Brave Cleburne is sleeping
| Where night dews are weeping
And pale leaves are falling
Like gift gems around;
! Where sad winds are signing
And sweet flowers dying
To mingle their breath
with the ashes they love, etc.
In 1860 the Prince of Wales and suite
were in st, LOUIS. A lovely young girl
| passed Barnum's Hotel. ''See Look,
my lOrdP' the Prince exclaimed, address
/ ing Lord Lyons; ''isn't she eXquisiteT'
For months touching little poems were
! published in the Louisville Journal and
highly praised by its editor, George d.
! Prentice, who spoke of her as a remark
/ able woman, full of genius Parepa-ROsa
I heard of her voice and asked her to sing.
! The great prima donna threw up her hands
! in ecstacy, eXclaming: "Madam. what
a shame for pride to keep that voice from
! the wOrldp'
This wonderful woman, with so many
! gifts, has for fifteen years lived in quiet
/ retirement forgetting and almost forgot
! ten by the world that once did her such
| homage, in a perfect bower of beauty
| Cher cottage J, adorned by lovely paintings
and sculpture from her own hands and
/ from European masters.
/ One painting by Titan, an heirloom
/ from her husbands family, hangs on the
/ wall and IS beyond value. Many etch-
ings, taken from Southern Utah. lie
around. She has travelled for a year in
Utah, and relates many interesting anec-
dOtes of the MUrmons. Her husband is
one of the most noted lawyers on the
Western cOast-a man of great eruditiOn,
the son of eX-United States Senator George
/ Goldthwaite, Alabama's most noted and
beloved son. Judge Goldthwate is the
Criminal Judge of Lake county, and his
Wife, the subject of this sketch, is a we'll
/ preserved woman of about 40, looking
/ near 30, retaining much of the original
beauty of heart and person that made her
such a favOrite with the sterner sex in
years gone by. A happy, model wife, she
seldom visits, retains a few cultured
friends and seems to have f0rsaken the
| fashionable world that once adored her.