The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

With reverent hand We disturb the veil that has
fallen over her life to catch the light Of its spiritual
beauty. Her fate like that Of the martyr. of old,
has started the quickest pulse Of love, and adpira
tion, aud pity, and remorse in every heart that
knew her II we have waited until too late 10
crown, TO comfort her, we lift her memory forever
above the cruel, earthlyturdens that Swallowed err
No cline, no State, no home except her own could
have given birth to her fair genius She was the
daughter of Jane Elizabeth Caldwell, and David :
Pattison, aud was born in Claiborne county, Miss
a few years before the Her mother was the
second OF three children Of Isaac Caldwell and his
wife Elizabeth Robinson, OF Clinton, Miss. The
oldest residents OF Kinds county remember Judge
Caldwell, who fell in a political duel with Gwinn in
1896, and his wife who few subsequent years, met
with a not less tragic fate,
Raymond Robinson, the father OF the latter, and
who is buried Clinton beside her, was Colonel
OF Mississippians in the war OF 1872.
The CsldwelIs, OF Kentucky, the ANCESTOR and
kindred Of Judge Caldwell, are among the most dis
tinguished OF that state. Alexander Fsttison,
the father OF David 5 Pattison was at one time an
otrcer in the English army he fought at the battle
Of Corona and assisted at the burial OF Sir John
Moore.
Descended on both sides Of her family from noble
and illustrious men and women, Lucy Raymond
Pattison caught the spirit OF all that most beau
tiful in her race. From her mother especially she
inherited a rare poetic temperament, that in her
had been intensified by repeated family tragedies
her childhood. Lucy was educated after the late
war at the Convent sacred Heart, St James Parish
La.-eclipsing any pupil ever within its walls
and when scarcely sixteen years old receiving the
highest honors that excellent institution bestows
upon It's graduates. Her health was always deli
cate and during her latter years at school she was
not required to confue herself the house during
hours Of study but permitted TO wander at viii
among the perfumed shades of that holy retreat
and read OF write as the impulse seized her.
Beloved and admired by the kind ladies, her
/ teachers, and her companions, indolized by her
proud parents and her only sister, she began life
with dearest auspices. But the gloom of financial
and political depression was shadowing the land
| and she was denied advantages to which her birth
and loveiness and genius entitled her. In ls7.
/ she married Nathanial Jeferies OF Claiborne eoun
ty, and, during the four years that be lived, bore
him two little girls She failed to get remuneration
for the exquisite productions of her pen until toe
late to save her from the abuses Of poverty. TIT
/ chalicc of disappointment and modification. ant
defeat " as pressed 70 her sweet lips She dupe,
aud deceived and tossed on the wild tide of human
selhshness until her physical strength gave way
but the brillisncy OF her genius grew brighter. A
Lucy as Geoffry, as James Steerforth and undei
her own signature her poetry has been read ant
admired Throughout fine South
| She died, to quote her words with
Her robes OF innocence white to the hem,
Her lamp filled to the brm ~