The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-27
ONCE-FAMOUs DUST.
a Few Of the Many Forgotten Graves
of Genius.

OF Genius.
Edward W. Box contributes to the
Ladies Home Journal an article descript-
i've of forgotten graves of famous authors
in Greenwood cemetery. from which we Gull
these paragraphs: Few women were more
beautiful than Estelle Lewis in her day.
Poets sang her beauty. the most famous
painters sought for sittings, while Pee called
her the rival of Sappho. Her extravagances
led to a quarrel with her husband, from
whom she separated and went to Paris. She
at once became the central figure Of the
social, literary and art circles of the gay
capital. Men worshiped her, and women
| could not desist in their admiration Of her
wondrous beauty. Napoleon Ill was then
on the throne, and he eagerly sought an in
PRODUCTION to the beautiful American Her
dazzling beauty aud brilliant converse
tlonal powers completely fascinated the
great French ruler, and be became her
most ardent admirer. He received her at
the Tulleries with marked honors. The
elder Dumas became her close friend AMI
literary adviser. Rosa Bonheur painted
| her, Ristorl urged her dramatic composition
while from tho usually cold and grave La
MARITIME she receives visits that lasted for
hours. One morning she was found dead
IN bed in her luxurious London lodgings,
dying, it is supposed from a neuralgia stroke.
Her remains were entombed in the cata-
combs of Kensal Green cemetery. near
London. The funeral was attended by all
the prominent authors, artists, society peo-
pie OF London, and several members OF the
royal family. When her will was read. it
was found to contain a provision that her
remains should be embalmed, returned to
her native land, and buried in Greenwood.
In the following spring her body was for the
| md .hoI -. h
lected by herself and where her remains
now rest.
THE GRAVES OF THE CARY SISTERS.
1t is on the gentle knoll directly facing
the sculptured entrance gates of Green
wood that the Cary sisters are buried. The
| lot IS small one, containing three simple
| mounds. The center grave is that of Alice,
| that to the east is the grave of the youngest
of the three sisters, Elmina, while under the
mound facing the west sleeps Phoebe. Thus
do the sisters sleep in death, as they were in
| their lives, side by side. A decaying box
wood hedging surrounds the plot, while the
simple granite shaft is crumbling at the
| base. This monument, many will remem-
| Der, was tire outcome of popular sub5crip-
| ton headed by Horace Greeley, IN whom the
| two sisters, Alice and Phoebe, always found
a devoted friend. The younger sister was
scarcely known to the literary world. No
two sisters could be more attached to each
| other than were Alice and Phoebe, and it
was due to the swapping of this bond of
| affection between them that the latter sur
vived the formers death scarcely FIVE
months. The officiating clergymen and
the pall-bearers were identically the same
on both sad occasions. 1t was upon his
return from the burial of Alice that Horace
| Greeley wrote: "What a stormy day it
was, and how dreary Greenwood looked.
Immediately after we bad laid her away the
heavens covered her resting place with
| drapery as white as her soul aud as soft and
noiseless as her charity" He who wrote
| these words now lies only a short distance
| from the graves of the three sisters to
whom he was SO devotedly attached. Up
TO the time of his death Mr.. Greeley cared
| for the plot of the Cary sisters, but since
| 1872 little has been Gone for it.
THE GRAVE OF ''DoEsTICKs.
A few rose bushes and scattering arbol
| vitae are the only indications that the grave
of the eccentric poet 20. K. Phdandel
Doesticks, 2. B." is not entirely forgotten.
| No monument or stone OF any description
| marks the spot, and only thosse to whom
/ the grave on the slope of Chestnut Hill is
| specially pointed ont would ever know oil
its existence. Evidently, the spot is as for
| gotten as is its occupant. The poets rea
name, it will be remembered, was Morti-
mer M. Thompson. His peculiar career
began when he was expelled from college
for creating a secret society. He became
| in turn an actor, travelling salesman and
| finally adopted journalism and the nom de
| plume which made him famous. His wife
was a daughter of James Parton, with
whom the only child from themarriage, a
daughter, now lives.