The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-10-20
Banished bY Her Mother.
New York Star.

New York Star.
The settlement of the estate. of the
late Colonel Maekaye,, the father of
James Steele Mackaye, has brought
to light strange story in real life.
The colonel had lived for twenty
years in Paris and his business man.
ager in this country was William
Mackaye, his eldest son, who was al
SO left executor of his fathers Will.
When the news efthe colonel's death
came, MIR. William Maekaye eabied
$4,000 to meet the expenses of the
funeral in Paris and bring the body
to America: Accompanied by his
wife; he selected a beautiful spot In
WoodlaWn for family burial plot,
saying to her, ''Father will lie here,
and you and | there" indicating the
respective places as he spoke. On
the following day he arranged with
DR.. Lloyd of the Central Congrega-
tional church, to take charge of the
funeral.
The death of his father seemed to
be great blow to Mr.. Mackaye, and
perhaps with premonition Of what
was to follow he made his will in sole
favor of his wife and settled his own
business as if closing it forever.
Scarcely was this done when he fell
dead by an apopletic stroke. His
funeral was attended by DR.. Lloyd,
and he was buried in Woodlawn
while his fathers body was still upon
the ocean. His wife, who did not
seem more than 35 or 80 years old,
was an extremely handsome woman
and apparently in good health. So
absorbed was she in grief for her
husband that she declared that she
only wished to live long enough to
see the colonel buried. "When that
is over" she said, 81 pray God
to come quickly"
eff you only had children you
would have something to live for"
suggested a sympathizing friend.
"Thank God, l never had a child"
she cried, clasping her hands, in the
intense and. tragic manner that
seemed natural to her. The funeral
of the colonel over, Mrs. Mackaye
broke up her home and went to re-
side with friend. Almost immedi-
ately after she took to her bed ap-
parently resolved to die. Physicians
who were called could find no real
cause of illness, but in the briefperiod
of eight weeks the desired release
came The tragedy of death had
been three times enacted in thrice
two weeks, and now comes the strange
history.
Upon the morning of Mrs. Mack
ayes funeral a lady in heaviest
mourning robes appeared, a daughter
of the dead woman, 81 years of age,
who bore such a resemblance to her
mother that the relationship, had it
not been well attested, would scarce
ly have been questioned. And then
it came to light that there had been
a former marriage and a divorce
soon after. Mr.. William Mackaye
and his wife's own family were aware
of all the facts, but not one of the
friends she had made in the twenty
one years of the second marriage
ever dreamed there had been another.
The daughter and her three chill
dren lived in the vicinity ofNew York,
and yet for some unexplained reason
Mrs: Mackaye would not see them.
Her own sister was intimate with the
daughter, and constantly urged the
mother to relent. 1t seemed as if all
the aversion she had felt toward her
first husband had been transferred to
his daughter and her children.
81 know no reason why my mother
should have ignored my existence,
and while she lived had always be-
lieved size would become reconciled
to me-" said the woman, who seemed
now crushed with grief because this
hope was never to be realized.
It is a source of qualification to
those who know the circumstances
that the daughter who was refused
her mothers money, though it is in
no wise an agreeable thing to the
heirs of the Mackeye estate to pay
out $75, 900 to a person Of whom
they had never heard before.