Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-17

house which had so many tender mem.
cries for her-for she herself had lived
there until the death Of her lovers
mother, but with the lapse of years,
doubtless owing to the fact that not a
ray of sun could find its way through
the tightly closed shutters, the house be.
came musty, and the books, the papers,
the stuffed birds and the many pictures
and objects Of taste began to show
signs of decay.
Then Miss Partridge took a step which
must have given her heart great
wrench Except for the oaretaker's
quarters, she had the entire interior of
the house stripped and everything taken
to her residence and from that time her
visits to the house have ceased, but even
when the house was being stripped the
shutters were not opened, and it is a
fact that for 20 years they have re-
manned tightly closed.
Henry Hall Ward, to whom Miss
Partridge has remained so faithful for
so many years, was one of the leaders Of
the New York society of his day and in
which the Ward family is still repre-
sented by his cousins-General William
G. Ward, who was an officer In the
| United States volunteer service during
the civil war, and Mr.. Charles h,
Word; Mr.. Francis T.. Ward, the lat
ter's son, is secretary Of the Seabright
Golf club, and another son. Henry
Ward, is with Troop A in Porto Rico
Henry Hall Ward was president of
the New York club in its early days,
when it had delightful quarters In the
old Haight house, at Fifth avenue and
| Fifteenth street He was also promi-
nent member of the Union club and OF
the Society of the Cincinnati, Of which
he was also treasurer. The Ward family
owes its membership in this society to
Colonel Samuel Ward, an officer of the
Revolutionary army, who was Henry
Hall Wards grandfather. The portal,
of another ancestor. Governor Richard
Ward Of Rhode Island, is now the prop.
erty of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Henry Hall Wards father was a
brother of Samuel Ward, whose son,
Samuel, was the Sam Ward, famous al
a wit, scholar and bon vivant Other
cousins of Henry Hall Ward were Mrs
Julia Ward Howe and Mrs Crawford,
the wife of the sculptor and the mother
of f. Marion Crawford 1t seems a won
der that the novelist should not have
woven this roman ,, which he found
ready to hand in hi own family, into q
novel
Henry Hall Wards social position
may be judged from the fact that among
the pallbearers at his funeral in Grac,
church were John Jacob Astor. Walter
l.. Cutting, Johnston Livingston anC
James Francis RuRgles.
Eliza Ann Partridge's relationship t
Henry Hall Ward arose from the fac
that their mothers were sisters They
were members of the Hall family o
Pomfret, Conn. J. Prescott Hall, he
uncle, was William NJ. Evart's first Law
partner Those who knew Miss Par
fridge as a girl, 80 many years ago, de
medium height, had brown eyes and al
abundance Of strikingly dark hair. Sh,
is said, even now, at the age Of 81, Il
preserve much Of her youthful beauty.
When Henry Hall Ward died, one o
his friends penned these lines in hi
memory:
Honored and loved. no passed away
As sinks a summers day TO rest;
The brightest when the radiant clouds
OF silent evening gem the west
Does the woman who still treasure
his memory think Of these lines as sh
gazes into the sunset?-New York Her
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