The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
A CELEBRATED WOMAN.
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Her Msilen Name4
Leadville Cor. n. Y. World.

Leadville Cor. n. Y. World
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
saying: "The only woman ] ever loved
well enough TO marry. God bless her"
And that little man of intellect, Alexan-
der II. Stephens: "The most beautiful,
accomplished and thoroughly good wom-
an ever knew. Worth her weight in
diamonds" Col. Dan McCook. the
evening before he was killed in battle,
said I, comrade; "I feel sad toni hit
why, cannot tell. Perhaps il is my last
night on earth. ] was thinking Of my
old college days in Alabama and the
most attractive woman I ever met
Well, II is all past we are both married
but ! wish she may never know sor-
row." Gen. Pat Cleburne, having a pro-
monition 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 10 history. The touching little
poem that came out in the Memphis
Avalanche by this lady, and was so en-
tensively copied in Southern papers, is
still remembered
nraVs Cleburnp ia slaapinu
Where night dews are weeping
And pale leaves are all ing
Like gifs gems around;
Where sad winds are signing
And sweet flowers dying
To mingle their breath
with the ashes they love, etc.
In 1870 the prince of Wales and suite
were in st. Louis. A lovely yourg girl
passed Barnum's hotel. "Seel Look, my
lord!' the prince exclaimed, addressing
Lord Lyons isn't she exquisite?"
For months touching little poems were
published in the Louisville Journal, end
highly praised by its editor, George ID.
Prentice, who spoke of her as remark
able woman, full ofgenius. Parepa Rosa
heard of her voice, and asked her to
sing. The great prima donna threw up
her hands ia ecstacy, and exclaimed: !:
Madame, what shame for pride to
keep that voice from the worldv'
This wonderful woman, with so many
gifts, has for Is years lived in quiet re-
tirement, forgetting and almost forget
ten by the world that once did her such
homage, in perfect bower of beauty
(her cottage), adorned by lovely paint
ings and sculpture from her own Land
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 IA year in
Utah, and relates many interesting an
ecdotes of the Mormons. Her husband
is one of the most noted lawyers on the
Western coast-a man of great erudtion.
the son of ex United States Senator
George Goldthwaite, Alabama's most
noted and beloved son. Judge Gold
thwaite is the criminal judge of Lake
county. and his wife, the subject of this
sketch, is a well-preserved woman. of
about 40, looking about 30, retaining
much of the original beauty of heart and
person that made her such favorite
with the sterner sex IN years gone by.
A happy, model wife, she seldom visits,
retains few cultured friends and seems
to have forsaken the fashionable world
that once adored her.