The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

Durg, va, may III, 1879, Is the only
! monument ever raised to q woman BY
women. 1t was done by the Mary WASH
| ingtou Monument association of which
Mrs. Amelia Waite, widow of the late
| chief justice. is president
Mary, who is famed in story as having
| had little lamb, was a dcmure country
maiden who lived in Lancaster, Mass, a
| century and more ago. Mary Sawyer was
her name, and she was daughter of that
| good old stock whose desCe ndants are
| living among us today.
During the War of the Revolution
Faith Trumbull, wife OF Governor JON
athan Trnnbul (Brother Jonathan,) was
at church with her husband at Lebanon,
| Conn.,, when an appeal was made for con-
| tributions of all kind. for the suffering
soldiers OF the army. In the words of
| Stuart the historian: Ma dam Faith
Trum bull rose from hcr seat near her
| husband, threw off from her shoulders a
magnificent scarlet cloak, "a present from
/ Count Rocha m beau, com m apder-in chief
| of the French allies army. and advancing
near the pulpit laid it at the altar as her
offering to those who in the midst of war
and suffering were fighting the great bat
| tie of freedom. 1t was afterwards taken,
cut into narrow strips and employed as
trimmings to stripe the dress OF Ame!i
| can soldiers.
On Thursday. May IS, 1896. under the
| supervision of the Memphis Chapters of
! the Daus hters of the Revolution, the
| tangled growth of vines and muses. were
| torn away from simple marble head
| stone Of neglected grave in a remote
corner of Elmwood cemetery, the stone
| was clearsed and Strengthened and the
| following epitaph revealed:
Mrs. Dorothsa S. Winston, eldest
child of the second marriage OF the illus
trious Patrick Henry of Virginia. died
June II 1854. in the seventy eighth year
| OF her age"
! She, who was so beautiful so sought
after in life, now slept quiet and alone,
| all unheeding this worlds forgetfulness.
| But those who have turned their hearts
| in love to the past fuunu her lovely rest
! ing place unknown even to her descend
ante, and with gentle hands upturned
! the sod and planted there violets and
roses-one sweetly whispering memories
! Of the golden past, and the other suggest.
| ing the glorious resurrection.
| Nor were strangers lett to perform the
| loving task alone. Three OF the Henry
| blood were hidden and they gathered with
| that little band and assisted in tae SIM
| pie rites.
The only book that was written by q
woman. and published in New England
during tho first century OF New England.
| printing, was collection OF poems of
| Anne Bradstreet.
| Colonial danes were bold enough
to try their hands at the healing
| art. The first two, Anne Hutch
inson and Margaret Jones, throve but i'll.
The TO, mer was banished and the latter
was hanged as witch. The proof of her
| diabolical power being that her simple
medicines worked such wonderful cures.
| a confiding affection had grown up be-
tween Matthew Grlswuld and Ursula VOL
colt. His feelings were understood. but
not declt:red. lime passed. At last Ur-
sula realizing the situation, rose to its
noptr0l MaatinO him ah0nt tho hQu q
she ocoasiually asksd him: WHAT did
| you say, Cousin Matthew" Nothing"
he answered. Finally meeting him on
the stairs she asked: What did you
| say. Cousin Matthew Nothing" he
answered. Its time you did," said she.
purpose, and Ursula GriswoId was.
through this marriage. enabled to boast
that her immediate family furnished hive
governors to Connecticut.
Madam Johnstone. wife OF DR.. John
Jobnstone, who was eminent in the colo.
MES of New Jersey and New York in the
18th century, had many an admirer be-
| fore she left her Scottish hume. 1t is
| said that a parish parson "fell besottedly
in love with the pretty Eupham,
| who scorned him. The supersti-
| tious old divine. by brihing her
garments. out of which he made himself
u waistcoat and a pair Ut drawers, which
he wore, fully expecting that by this
magic spell, he wou | win her affection.
His efforts were unavailing, however,
except to arouse the anger of the beauty
and of her relatives at 'hls focleries. "
! and he was suspended for some time
| from his office.
The first home OF a religious order for
women, in what is now the United States
was founded III 1877 in New Orleans.
A century ard half ago Jonathan
1faio of oil 1nuo
with Quakeress who lived in an adioin-
in 6 town. He would not accept her first
refusal of his suit. He pressed it again
and again. but Ruth reply was, Nay,
| Jonathan; | respect thee, but l cannot
marry thee" At length he plainly told
after he had mounted his horse to ride
| away, Rutn relented. Return Jonathan
return Jonathan. she said. He returned
and in December, l740, ne named his first
born son Return Jonathan. To this day
there mas never been wanting Return
| Jonathan in the Meigs family, even to
the fourth generation.
Jerusha Emerson, a patriotic Puritan
maiden, was busy frying doughnuts on
| the morning OF the 10Th of April 1875,
! when men in teams, on horseback, and
on foot began hurrying by on their way
to the right at Lexington She hastily
| filled her apron, and stationing herself
outside, gave of her goodie to those who
passed and with them word OF good
| cheer.
General Greene wrote that at dance
in his quarters General Washington and
Mrs. Greene danced upwards OF three
hours without once sitting down, adding,
upon the whole, we mad a pretty littls
| frisk.''
DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY.
EXTRACTS from paper prepared by Mrs.
Richard Jackson Barker for thu Gaspee
Chapter. Daughters of the American
Revolution.)
The Golden time has given us much
to bs proud of. 1t is for the resent gem
Grafton to draw from its rich resources.
The Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution is doing just that
work. The daug ters are not dealing en-
tirely. with the interesting references to
their forefatheIs. which they are proud TO
find in the colonial records of the several
states. but they are getting together
everything that reIates to the home life
and women whom they are honUring to-
day as ancestors.
Having had two relatives in the New
port coterie. l am able to give somewhat
of an account of that branch OF the
Daug hters of Liberty. First, j venture
to express an individual opinion in re-
gard TO the origin of the name OF the So
ciety. There was an organization about
that time known as The Sons of Liberty.
| believe that the women of those DAYS
were not unlike the women of today; they
wanted to be recognized by the spirit of
patriotism, and follow the example of