Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-22
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an Aged " td0w's Uaexpiairod Death.
Rods Found In Central PARK.
New York Times.l
A dark object in the water on the
west side Of the north basin OF the Cro-
ton reservoir, near the Belvedere, in
Central Park, attracted the attention of
Waterman Charles McGlone yesterday
afternoon. Pulling it ashore with a
hook he found it was the body Of
handsome bat very aged woman.
She wore very neat cashmere
robe, q black bonnet, silk gloves,
and carried an old.fashloned silk
reticule, which was fastened at tho waist
of her dress. In it were knitting
needles and materials, and some half
finished stockings, and O scrap Of paper
on which was written, 81 live at No.
224 east Eighty.sixth street." When
the body was taken to the Arsenal a
piece Of paper was found pinned to the
dress. On it was written, "Ander-
son, No. 224 east Eighty-sixth street.
1t was evident that the body had been
in the water only few hours.
At the address on the piece Of paper
it was found that the lady was Mrs.
Elizabeth Wall, and that her daughters,
Mrs. Lucette Anderson and Mrs. Rich
ard L. Chadwick her grandson, Byron
w. Anderson, and the police were
searching for her, she having dissp-
peared in the morning. Mr.. Anderson
soon after identified her, and said that
be could not account for his grand
mothers death. 1t might have been
accidental, but to get to the reservoir
basin she would have had to scale
fence which il was no easy task for an
able-bodied man to get over. He
secuted the idea Of foul play.
Mrs. Wall was born at Freehold, N.
j., in 1898. Her father, Thomas
Thompson, was German stakeholder.
Ills house at Monmouth was Washing
tons headquarters when the famous
battle was fought. Miss Thompson was
a very bright and intellectual girl and
Of singular beauty. She was wooed
and won by gallant Pennsylvania,
Major William Wall, Of Forks of York.
lie was graduated at West Point, and
resigned his commission as captain in
the regular army to study law in
the Office Of Garrett III. Wall, Of
New Jersey, who was a brother Of
Senator James Wall, of that State, and,
marrying Elizabeth, went into practice
at Athens, Ohio. When the Mexican
war broke out Captain Wall volunteer
cd his services and was given commits
sion as major in the Second regiment Of
Ohio volunteers. lie went through the
war, and his bravery and gallantry
were conspicuous, but the climate I'M
dermined his constitution, and, al
though he resumed his legal practice at
Athens, he died there in 1856, leaving
q widow and ten children. An act Of
Congress gave her handsome pension.
OF her children only her two daugh.
ters are living. Mrs. Anderson is the
widow Of Major James b. Anderson,
of the First Louisiana regiment, who
was killed before Vicksburg. Mrs.
Chadwick is the widow Of Red-Bank
IN. j. merchant. OF the other chill
dren, Douglass Wall, graduate of the
Norfolk Naval Academy, died mid
shipman on the United States frigate
Saratoga William A. Wall, lieuten-
snt in the Ninety-ninth New York Vol
unteers, was wounded at Fort Greble,
on the Potomac, and was brought home
to die at Red Bank.
Mrs. Wall was a remarkable old lady
for her years. She was pleasant and
had few eccentricities. Her passion
was knitting, and in trunk at Mrs.
AndeTson's fat are many dozen pairs
Of stockings Of her make. Although in
extremely comfortable circumstances
and tenderly cared for by Mrs. Ander.
son and her grandson, she would often
offer her stockings for sale, possibly
with view Of ascertaining if they had
market value. In fine weather she
would on week days walk in the morn
ing from No. 224 east EIghty-siXth street
TO the Central Park, knit there all day,
and return in the evening. The papers
with her address in her reticule and
pinned to her dress were written by
Mrs. Anderson, who feared that some
day her mother would lose her way or
be taken sick. She was hale and hap.
py last week, and offered some of her
stockings to a Park policeman and a
laborer. Saturday was Mrs. Ander.
sons birthday, and Mrs. Wall was in
the best of humor, talked Of her youth
and her husband, and gave her daugh-
ter a ring, an old family relic. Mrs.
Wallis body was taken from the Morgue
to her late residence last night. Mrs.
Wall was a member of the East-Eighty-
Sixth-Street Methodist church.