Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06
M1D1ME GARESCHE.
Death of a Former Wilmington
lad; in n Louisiana Convent.

Drsith " EOrher wilmington
Fad, im n Louisiana Convent.
New orltin Plcayuno, July 2sth.
Al the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in
SC. james parish, on the 18th inst, n
noble life was ended. Mime Bauduy
Garesche, mother superior Of the convent
in st. Louis, died. She was lady
fashioned in the world of the best and
highest, and realized all the possibilities
of her ample nature. For some time past
she had been n sufferer from consump-
ton, and her death had been anticipated
by all who knew and loved her. She left
st. Louis and came south in search of
health. On the 14th inst, she visited
the convent of the same order in New
Orleans and two days later repaired to
st. James. On the 18th she died. Such
characters would make heaven on earth.
The daughter of Hon. Louis McLane
minister of the United States to England
under President jackson, Juliet Bauduy
McLane. was born in Wilmington, Del, +,
about GO years ago. Among her play
mates was P. Bauduy Garesche, for whose
grandmother she had been named. Almost
from infancy the two had been fondly at
taclled to one another, and as they grew
older became engaged to be married.
Their union was delayed for some time,
however, on account of the illness of
Mrs. McLane, upon whom Juliet was q
most devoted and constant attendant. So
pronounced was her devotion to her
mother, so constant her attention during
that mothers long illness, that it is thought
the daughter overtaxed her strength and
planted the seeds of the malady which
ultimately caused her death.
In 1S4S the young people were married.
Mr.. Garesche's fortune consisting of n
| salary of "a 900 year, wealth of love
and IN aptitude and II will for work. They
moved to st. Louis and located there. At
the breaking out of the war, Mr.. Garesche
was public administrator, which position
| he gave up and went south in the service
of the Confederacy. After the war he
returned to st. Louis and fitted up an
establishment on Chouteau avenue, just
above Fourteenth street.
| For several years the family lived in
| st. Louis, but the hand of death removed
the father, son and one daughter, and the
remaining children, two lovely daughters,
| became inmates of the Sacred Heart
| Convent. Mrs. Garesche, thus cut of
| from the last tie that bound her to the
| outer world, and her heart-strings
being wound about the two daughters
| who We're in the convent, herself entered
the order in 1874 and was known as
Mime Bauduy Garesche.
Before entering the convent she had
been ministering angel to many and
many in need of the physical and spirit
ual aid which her means and endowments
enabled her to dispense with lavish hand.
She moved among her kind as being of
some superior sphere. She was unlike
the rest of mortality. She could not be
known-it mattered not how slightly,
without the nameless influence of her
noble nature impressing itself upon all
with whom she came in contact. In the
convent her natural ability naturally raised
her to elninence and she became Mother
Superior. She was also the director of
the ladies socially, and her influence was
carried by the members of the sodality
throughout the homes of the city.
The family is one of pronounced emil
nence. Her father was minister to Great
Britain; her brother, Robert M. McIIane
has recently been appointed minister to
France, and her sister is the wife of Gen.
Joseph l.. johnson.