Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-01

OF a luxurlOuS nome, IN the very
front rank of ALI social life in her |
circle, with the wealth of million
aire, her husband honored in the |
past as the second mayor Of Chicago |
and the candidate ON the Bell and |
Everett ticket for Governor OF Illi- |
nOis, and In the front as judge Of
their court. Hers was the very acme |
of human life, with all the sources |
from which its pleasures are derived |
in full, present possession. All she |
had to do to keep what she had and
even add ten fold to 1t, was to keep
herself aloof from public affairs and
quietly float down the tide of life,
but the spirit of her divine Master,
working with her own spirit"
babe her make her own sacrifice Tor
the lives OF Others, and without a
murmur or complaint, without O 4
moments hesitation, she gave it all,
social posieion, luxurious home,
wealth, ever! thing-tO comfort and
relieve the ca Dfive in his chains, and
the cause and the land as much her
own as if she carried the banner and
welded the sword Of the Southern
COnfederacy. rs
II was not long after her good
offices had been given to the prison
ers, before she and her husband be-
came the objects of federal persecu-
ton, till to visit her hospitabIe home
was made a cause of arrest. Soon
that home was taken from her and
she, a delicate woman, all unused to
hardship, made the inmate of dark,
cold prison, with nothing to feed
upon, save such prison fare as her
own money would purchase. To
use the unvarnished and literal truth,
they took from her all she had save
one dress, denying her the use of her
own private room to make her toilet
as they took her of to prison, and
she was compelled to make a screen
OF the body OF her faithful maid SER
want, behind which to make the
change from her indoor to the one
street dress they allowed her to take
away with her. All the rest OF the
wealth of herself and husband they
either gave to the hummer, or it
became a part of that vast and mys-
terious amount of goods, known then
as now as captured or confscated.
Finally, after long and cruel tor
ture, they sent her with broken
health, but unbroken spirit, to her
brother, DIR. James Blackburn, of
Scott county, KY, with orders to
keep sswatch and wardn over her and
expatriate her il she left the limits of
DIR. B.'s farm. With the courage OF
a man and tho devotion OF q woman,
she gave her all to the cause. Many
of us remember the soothing words
and hand Of this noble woman in
our sickness and suffering, and the
words of encouragement and cheer
with which she revived and sustained
our Dropping spirits and when, as
was sometimes the ease, Adisease and
death came, no mothers hand ever
more softly and gently placed the
boy soldier in his shrOud and with
flowers decked him for the grave.
After the war and the death of her
husband, which occurred we believe
in 1875 or 1876, she came back to the
home OF her girlhOod and the home
OF her brother, DIR. Luke Blackburn,
then Governor of Kentucky, and
when be retired from office she fol-
lowed him to Louisville, KY, where
with his aid and others OF like phi
Ianthropic character, they erected
sanitarium In which to provide for
and treat the unfortunate victims of
minds diseased. This was the work
most eongenial to her quiet, gentle
heart. With all of her losses, great
as we have seen they were, bus a few
hours before her death she declared
that the only regret she had in dying
was that she could dOno more for the
needy and the helpless. A tf
On the 18th October, 1884, at the
near Louisville, KY,
with the armor of her good work still
on her, Mary Blackburn Morris died
in the full possession of all her men
tai faculties and the bright jewels OF
her noble and heroic life browning
her more richly and grandly than
kingly crown ever decked a royal
head. To us who meet here to-day
her life was more even than that of
one OF the historic characters of her
time-tO US she was the kindly, gen.
tie ministering spirit, and though
gray hairs have blOssOmed in the
heads of the boy soldiers she minis
tered to at Camp Douglas in 1862, to
our hearts and in our memories she
was, and is, and will forever be, a
second mother therefore
Resolved, That the loss of such
person is not only a source OF grief to
those who stand in the circle of her
own family, and with whom we@ym-
psthize and to whom we respectfully
tender our sincere coincidence. but a
public calamity in which society at
large sustains great and irreparable
loss.
Resolved, that copy Of these reso- |
buttons be sent to the family of the |
deceased, and that the GAINESVILLE |
papers and the Courier-J ournal be re-
quested to publish the same.
In presenting the resolutions Capt. |
Smith, who was the orderly sergeant
Of company A, 18th Tennessee regi- |
ment, at the time it was carried to
camp Douglass, Chicago, Ill.,, as
prisoners OF war, gave history Of its
arrival at Chicago, and at camp
Douglass. and paid glowing tribute
TO the deceased as also to the other
noble women of Chicago, who visited
The prisoners, nursed the sick, fed
The hungry and clothed the suffer-
ng, mentioning the names OF Mrs.
Philip Harmon, Mrs. H. Harmon,
Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Belle Waller,
Miss Pet Boone, Mrs. Robb and
others.
Appropriate speeches were also
made by the following gentlemen,
Who seconded the resolution.
Elk. U. s. Senator James E. Bailey,
Jol. 10th Tennessee; Polk g. John
on, Lieut.. 10th Tennessee Judge
Jhas. w. Tyler, Lieut.. 5Oth Tennes-
ee; Lewis G. Munford, Of the
bar.
Judge Horace Ell. Lurton of Nor
ans cavalry moved the adoption of
he resolutions, which were unani-
nously carried. T--
Prayer was then offered by DIR. A.
}. Sears of the Baptist church,
the meeting adjourned.
WIN. A. QUARLEs, Chairman.
POLK G.. JOHNSON, Secretary. {
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