The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-08-15
MRS. BONANZA MAcKAY.
Some Revised Details .as to Her Very In
terestlng History.

Some iRevise0 Details aR TO Her very An
teresting History.
Louise Hungerford, with a younger
sister who Is now the Countess of Telt-
-ener, the wife OF Italian Count. Left
New York when about twelve years old,
says tho Working Woman. John Hun
gerford was ajodrneyman barber in New
York. but enlisted In the Mexican war;
later he was employed at his trade by
one George w. Gprico. whose shop In
San Francisco was knownas "a lontgom-
cry Baths" and the chair that u acksH Hun
gerford spsedsis pointed QUITO the Gus
toners of the Ciprico barber shop to this
day. Mr.. Ciprico advanced $500 In gold to
his employee, who immediately sent;for
his daughters. When Louise Hungerford
and hersister arrived in San Francisco
they went to the house of Mr.. Ciprico,
who took them into his family, they be-
ing nearly the same age Of his own
daughters Here they were treated as
members OF the family, being taught
italian and French and music by the
daughters. They lived with their bene-
factors six or seven years.
In 1865 Hungerford opened barber
shop on his own account at Mokelumne
Hill, Cal, and Louise, who was then
about nineteen years old, acted as her
fathers housekeeper-they having one
rom in the rear of the shop lie was
proprietor of but short duration. for be
soon busted" up in business During
this period DR.. Bryant, who kept
small drug store at Nevada City, about
one hundred miles from Mokelumne
Hill, paid attention to Louise,
and she was married to him after
"a short courtship. DR.. Bryant, be-
ing man OF dissolute habits, died two
or three years afterward of delirium
tremens, leaving Mrs.. Bryant no means
of support for herself and daughter Eva,
now the Princess Colonna. Her fathers
| failure in business and her husbands
death compelled her to seek service in
Che family of =. W. Walker, brother Of
the late ex-GovernorWalk of Virginia,
and there she met for the first time j.
w. Mackay, superintendent OF the Bull
lion mine at Virginia City, New. Louise
Bryant, for brief time previous to her
going into the service Of Mr.. Walker,
had tried hand at keeping boarding
house for the miners.
Mr.. Mackay was comfortably fixed and
could provide her home, such as the
miners used in those days, simply
cabin of two rooms. So he courted and
won the Widow Bryant. Her father
In the meantime had gone back to his
former ''boss" and procured employment
and helped to pay the youngest daugh-
tiers board. Mrs Mackay was cook and
general housekeeper and laundry-wom-
an, and helped entertain her husbands
co-workers in the mines.
Mr.. Mackay soon after attained great
wealth, and Mrs. Mackay and her sister
had the advantage OF a common school
education and could speak fiuently Ital-
ian and French, through the association
OF the Ciprico family, who were re-
markably we'll educated-three Of the
daughters of Mr. Ciprico are school
teachers in San Francisco to-day. When
Mrs. Mackay, her daughter Eva, and her
sister went abroad, it was to get away
from her former associates. Whom she
returned for the first time to San Fran
cisco she called upon the Ciprico girls,
but from that day 70 the present she has
ignored her former teachers and bene-
factors.
The people OF San Francisco who
know the facts as above stated are indig-
nant at Mrs. John w. Mackay's ingrati-
tude to family that had done so much
for her in her early days Of poverty and
somewhat adventuresome life.
John Hungerfordr-now known as Col.
Hungerford of the Omitted States army
was formerly known as Jack Hunger
ford, the barber" He was good artist,
and there is no disgrace attached to his
business. Louise earned her daily bread
as clearinghouse keeper. But the
worst of ingratitude comes In to those
who took care Of her and gave her the
advantages OF an early education. This
we think the worst OF crimes.
The above Is true history OF the
Bonanza Queenof European sooiety
n FREAK OF A HAND.