Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-17
Does Anyone Know Her Name?

Few persons know that in the CITY of
Leadyille, Col, there lives one of the
most celebrated women of her day.
Men at fashionable watering places
raved over her beauty and varied ac-
compishments. President Buchanan
is credited with saving: The only
woman | ever loved we'll enough to
marry. God bless her" And that
little man of intellect, Alexander II.
Stephens: The most beautiful, accom-
plished and thoroughly good woman 1
ever knew. Worth her weight in dia-
mOnds. Colonel Dan McCook, the
evening before he was killed in battle,
said to comrade: Il feel sad to-
night; why. l cannot tell. Perhaps it
IS my last night on earth. | was think
ing of my old college days in Alabama
and the most attractive woman l ever
met Well, it is all past, we are both
married, but | wish she may never
know = SORROW" General Pat Gle
burne. having 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 his
tory. The touching little poem that
came out in the Memphis 4ualanche
by this lady, and was so extensively
copied in Southern papers, is still re-
membercd:
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 diving
To mingle their breath
With the ashes they love, &c.
In 1860 the Prince of Wales and
suite were in St. Louis. A lovely
young girl passed Barnum's Hotel.
"See! Look, my lordr' the prince ex-
claimed, addressing Lord Lyons, isn't
she cXquiSite?"
For months touching little poems
were published in the Louisville Joatr-
nal, and highly praised by its editor,
George ID. Prentice, who spoke of her
us u remarkable woman, full of genius
Parepa-ROsa heard her voice and asked
her to sing. The great prima donna
threw up her hands in ecstasy, and ex-
claimed: Madam, what shame for
pride TO keep that voice from the
world =
This wonderful woman, with so many
gifts, has for fifteen years lived in quiet
retirement, forgetting ami almost for
gotten by the world that once did her
such homage, in 4 perfect bower of
beauty Cher cOttage), adorned by love
ly- paintings and sculpture from her
own hands and from European mas
tiers.
One painting by Titan, an heirloom
from her husbands family, hangs on
the wall and is beyond value Many
etchings, taken from southern Utah,
lie around. She has travelled for a
year in Utah, and relates many inter-
esting anecdotes of the Mormons. Her
husband is one of the most noted law
yerS 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 Goldthwaite is the criminal
Judge of Lake county, and his wife the
subject of this sketch, is 4 well-pre-
served woman of about 40, looking
near 80, retaining much of the original
beauty OF heart and person that made
her such 4 favorite with the Sterner sex
in years gone by. A happy, model
wife, she seldom visits, retains few
cultured friends and seems to have for
saken the fashionable world that once
adored her.