Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-04
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.


eansoryntive and digniied monthly mag
azine \ person who signs hinseii y.
II. Yenowiue IN the December humble.
OF 1892. has an article on Louisville,
at the end Of which Is the following IT,
bel upon several Of General Ipylors fdili-
lis. and notably upon his wife. The ar
ucle has probably not been promptly
answered. because the people ui the
Scuthwest know Louisville better llhh
any southwestern tity. and did, not there
fore read the article on Louisville Thus
the attack ON the Taylor family did tot
meet the eye Of thelr friends unii ntter
It had deeply wounded and lucrnsrd TIE
81 ndrcn aud grandchildren of the heroic
old eX-prc-idcnt.
After setting forth TINT Mary Ander-
sou WIS born in Louisville, etc. the
writer goes M thus:
''rhe pnrcnts Of President Zachary
TAYLOR Wnrc Nirgininns hut they set
tied near tho present city Of Louisville
abnut the year 1875, II happened that
Zachary Taylor was born in Nrginin,
was brought Ia Louisville when lie was
hut mouth or two old, aud he grew 10
manhood working uu his fathers iitln,
Old Residents have Interesting trhihis-
cciccs Of President 'hylpr mud his wife
NIrl Taylor srrius 20 have been very
domestic. ahhnriinr ala forms Of sncirly
She was nlmusi crtard with grici whvu
she learned that She wis to LIVE In the
White House After the Inauguration
she retired IN one room. where she spent
all nf her time refusing To srr cnilcrs
t'util hurly bcfbrr her husbands
death slir lived the life nf u rc,lnsr. aud
It is related that the ponr sinur uld
Wluuu sat w her room Uuy uilcr day.
smnhiug her pipe and hrmomihg h"r
sad fate Many people arr yet ally"
who cluiui 90 have scru her calmly nun
Ing an old cluy pipe. Her oldest lnngl-
ter ruhl Hiid umrllrd Jefferson Davis,
who was then u young army officer
stationed Vt Prairie du Chen, Wis,
General Hylor's burial place WIS long
neglected. Briars aud hrambrs grew
over the grave, the trlrcs surrounding
Il ruit,sl dnwl, aud the little family
cemetery became thiuhct'
Il would be- hard tn have written two
paragraphs which contained more rr-
rors than ihtsy two which speak nj
the Taylor family Il is true that Gen.
era! Taylor was taken 90 Kentucky
whcu very young. and that he grew TO
manhood in that slHtr hui that he grew
up working uu hs fathers farm is I'M
true That he Wuull have done su with
no loss nj dignity ur uf The esteem OF his
fellow Citizen, is also iruu had ,lltli SER
vice been necessary To the welfare 81
his family: for though q long life he
met every emergency with ptnuipinrsH,
zeal mud efficiency. From his ucculi'
arity came his pscud0nym. 'Oh Rough
and Ready" mot because hc was vulgar
a. ltttt htpuIlaH
OF rough ~ ulhl Wy '"NuNu. W., ,.,r'.,,,,',
ne was AWAY Wnus ,"' ""S 'rnrs AZ,
anu luoN II" .""h" NV ,.r,,,t ,S,tnr-
soun'v,; h,.e,t nf y,,rr ,,nitr mnun,.r.
ness u' n'ml" ~ M, eIgi,-,,,,i,n an
Nnn 50 tu'",S Nh ~, ,,,,I,myth,rI
any petty NhNlt{' lnh. ~ Ill., , nH'"'"
his greatest - H., VIZ,
very slrhl man, Nv, w. u'st''s '''l''''
AL VINO came iu'u u ~ ..'u ,,,,
Nhcn P'nN' WIZ" UN'i ~, t. ",,
who desire {" present 'Hl.'u avn"
Taylor To- Those ni ms uiE ".''uu' ~
describe him, u Is irheiNlE 10 hh "
mu.plrrc mnhhg WIN oalns NW ruu
jurgUiuns. Every wAu nl 'trn'In' lNH
lur's dug SWnfe uerdsluhAHy' Wln"p'
most mrn de now hut swearing Is 's'
the cu,tnm NOW Than w. ihal dny h"lh
IN America aud Eugnud men sWorr
even Ia good society, NNiy years Ngu, ~
may be- Soc by amy novel of that day
In a long and rather close ncQuniui
nncc, when the writer say General Thy.
ior under considerable excite.
Incnt sWnrr Tvicv, She had
ncvrr heard am oath, or ever
n har.h rNrrrs.iun frnm his bps and
J,rIrrsnu Dnyls. who served under him
mi tury him "A. "A Iplnvwl SON know
n f,th"r. niyny. h,a.umr Indignant whru
u,s innitniiot, upDn tjturral TAYLOR wa.
",,.,tI,,,I In his ur,,srnrr.
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