Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-07
SIX TINES A BRIDE.
Romantic Career of a Famous Beauty.
Born in Lansingburg, N. Y, She
Eloped at Brooklyn When II
Years Old-Her First Husband a
Public School |eacher-She Left
Money fc> q Monument to Him

bride and five times followed the
corpse of her husband to the grave. Mrs.
Campbell was 54 years of age and was
born IN Lansingburg, near Albany, n.
Y. Sc was relative of the old Dutch
patroon family of Pruyns of the upper
Hudson river country.
Her maiden name was Louise Taylor,
She was an only child and her family
was among the wealthjest in that 10
cality. She had a private tutor and il
was the parents intention to send her
abroad for several years Of travel and
residence when her school days should
have been finished. AS child she was
always a beauty, and before she was
10 years old she mad young men admir-
ers by the dozen in the old town Of Ian
singburg.
In 1858, when II years old, she visited
an aunt in Brooklyn. There her beauty
Immediately attracted attention. SAe
fell madly in love with an impecun!ous
young man, just home from college and
at that time a teacher in the Brooklyn
public schools. Almon Rollins was his
name. After few weeks acquaintance
she eloped from her aunts home and
was married to the school teacher.
The young people went South, where
Rollins got a place az tutor in a sem.n-
ary N Montgomery, Ala. The change
in climate affected his health, and he
was an invalid for two years. He re-
signed his place as tutor and tried light
work on a plantation. His beautiful
bride chee.fully accepted their unfor-
tun2te lot and taught music for the
support of herself and husband. She
was too proud to write to her relatives
for financial or other aid. In 1860 Roll
lns died.
The widow, then 10 years Of age, re-
mained in Alabama, supporting herself
by teaching. In May, 1861, she was
married 10 Clarence Cushman, a very
rich young English merchant IN New
Orleans. Pictures of her still eXtant,
and taken at ne time Of her second mar
riage. chow that her sad experience and
hard work and privat.Ons had made
little if any change IN the wOndrOus
charm Of her eyes and her refined, claS-
sic features. The Cushmans went 10
Europe. lived in Munich for several
years, and two children that died in
childhood were born to them there.
In 1864 Mr.. Cushman lost over two
nirds Of h,s property in the South by
the ravages OF the war. In Rome Mr..
Cushman was seized with the Roman
fever and died.
The widow went to London, where
she found that her husband was really
bankrupt for weeks before his death.
Too proud to inform her relatives of
her distress, she remained in England
and once more became teacher. She
was a governess in an English family
for three years, and then returned to
New York, where she was a saleswo-
man in dry goods store.
In 1868 she was married in Plain
field. n. J., to Lieut.. Oscar d. Will
liams. United States Army, and went
with him to live at Fort Sully, n. ID.
They lived happily together, and Mrs.
Williams became a favOrite of all the
fort. In August, 1869 her husband
was drowned while bathing in the Mis-
the third time widow.
Her father. who had heard of his
only daughters misfortune, begged of
her to return TO her former home and
be forgiven, but she still felt the sting
of his refusal to recognize her first
marriage and once more began earn
ing her own livelihood. For two
years she was gOverness in the family
of a Louisville merchant. She mar
ried in 1871 the Rev. Edward Lukes
at Covington, Ky. The preacher was
a boon companion years ago of Presi
dent Cleveland at Syracuse. n. Y.
Her husband was sent as missionary
to India and his wife accompanied
him. They made their home success /
sively in India. Hong Kong and Hon
olulu. Mr.. Lukes died in the Sand
wich Islands in 1876 and his wife made
her way back to America with his
body.
Mrs. Lukes lived with a brother and
sister of her dead husband in In
dianapolis. She then entered a pri-
vate hospital in Chicago as a nurse. /
She was very poor and was again COM
PEELED to work hard for living. Am
ong the patients who came to the hos
pital was a middle aged man, a wild
over. named Hiram T. Dana In his
DAYS of cOnvalesence he was waited
upon by the beautiful Mrs. Lukes and /
he fell desperately in love with her !
The couple were married in Chicago !
in December, 1880. and visited the |
fashionable resorts that winter. They
i
later removed 10 st Paul. Mimi. where |
MIR. Dana added largely by the real |
estate boom to his comfortable for |
tune. In 1885 his head was injured |
by a fan on the ice. and his wound de- |
veloped brain disease. A few months |
later he shot himself at a private in ,
frmary near Milwaukee.
Mrs. Dana lived in retirement and !
possessed Of ample means. for several |
years. She gave generously. to the for !
eign missionary cause and to hOsDi- |
tails. She and a cousin went to Eu- |
rope on a long tour, and while abroad |
she had several proposals OF marriage !
from Americans, also travelling. In |
Florida, in 1891. she met Alfred E. !
Campbell and they found they had /.
hosts of mutual friends Of long ago.
They were married several months la |
ter. From that time until july Mrs. |
Campbell made her home in Boston.
They lived very happily and quietly |
They went among musical people. and |
built last year a new residence at ?
cost of some $4,000. Mrs. Campbell
went to California for her health.
Among her bequests Is sum for a
monument at the grave Of her first !
love, Almon Rollins. in Montgomery. |