The times., 1898-06-06
MORE ABOUT DEWEY.
How He Refused to Die From an
Operation.

Operation.
When the result of the battle at Manila be-
came known, the extraordinary interest that was
developed in the hero of it was indicated by
stories about Dewey which were printed in the
newspapers not only OF this country but Of Eu-
rope. 1t vas known that Dewey had undergone
a very serious operation q few years ago. and
correspondent of the Birmingham Post in Eng
land has this to say about it;
81 dare say the citizens OF the United States
generally are not aware how very near they
came to losing Admiral Dewey early in 1888,
and that the fact of his being still alive is hu-
manly speaking, largely due 10 the clever surgery
OF Inspector-General OF the Hospitals J. y. Dick.
r. y. date medical director-general OF the Nayy),
and Drs. Fitzgerald and Yeo, R. N, surgeons of
the Malta Naval Hospital at that time. In
February. 1888. was a patient there; another was
Admiral Dewey, then in command of the United
State corvette Juniata. He suffered from abscess
OF the liver in very complex form, and was not
expected to survive operation TO which he had
10 submit. The yarn heard was that, when
about to undergo it, the last words he murmured
before he became quite under the influence OF the
anesthetie were, I've made up my mind and 1
won't die and he didn't to the general aston
ishment After he became convalescent | used
sometimes to push him about the hospital gardens
iii a bath chair, and on one occasion | remember
his saying to me (apropos OF the operation) You
know I've got wife and children depending on
me at home and couldn't afford to die lust
then know that the doctors said that nothing
but his extraordinary determination pulled him
through and that they never had a pluckier pa
tient"
A few years ago a man named Browning took
advantage Of the growing interest in genealogical
Investigation in this country to publish a volume
called Americans of Royal Descent" in which
he proved to his satisfaction and that of some
OF his credulous patrons that nearly every New
England family could claim descent from one or
English kings. 1t was not unlike a re-
cent book which proves just as conclusivey that
every Irish family may be traced back to royalty
and in this book Browning has included Rear Adj
miral Dewey and assigned Alfred the Great as
an ancestor OF his in the following fashion,
Thomas Dewey came from Sandwich, Kent
England in the year 1898, to Dorchester, Mass
He removed about 1888 to Windsor, Conn, where
on March %, 1885, he married the widow Frances
Clarke. He died at Windsor, April 81. 164s His
son. Josiah Dewey, born 164l, settled first at
Westfeld. but subsequently removed TO Lebanon,
Conn He married in 1862 Hepzibah Lyman
Hepzbah Lyman the daughter OF Richard
Lyman of Windsor, Conn, who died in 1862.
Richard Lyman was the sixth in descent from
Elizabeth Lambert, who married Thomas Lyman
of Nayistoke, Essex, England who died in 1909
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry lambert
of 0ngar Essex who the seventeenth in des-
cent from Princess Edgina, the granddaughter of
Alfred. and the daughter of King Edward the
Elder. She, after the death of her first husband
Charles III of France, married Henry. third
Count de Yermandois and Troyes. Her grand
daughter married the son of Henry l, of France,
and their son, Robert the first Earl of
Leicester Roberts great-granddaughter married
the first Earl OF Winchester and her grandaugh-
ter married descendant of Donalbane King OF
Scotland.
Seventh in descent from this last couple was
the Robert Lambert referred to, and from his
daughter descended the Richard Lyman, who was
father to the Hepzibah, who married the ances-
tor of Admiral Dewey, From Josiah Dewey and
Hepzibah Lyman the descent is as follows:
l. Josiah Dewey OF lebanon Conn, born 1866.
2. William Dewey of lebanon, Conn.,, born
1892; died 1759
3. Simeon Dewey of Lebanon, Conn.,, born I71s;
died ISL.
4. William Dewey. settled at Hanover, N. a.
born 1746; died 1913.
6. Capt Simeon Dewey of Berlin, Vt, born
1770; died 1868.
G. Dr. Julius Y. Dewey of Montpelier, Vt,
born 1901; died 1877.
Admiral George Dewey. horn 1897