The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-04-28

over 2 years of age, and lived first in
Varick street, then the center OF Iie
residential section, and afterWaru ID
| I,ispenard street The maternal grand
! father of Mrs. Maxwell was William
Sampson. an exile Of '9S, well remem-
bered. in New York as a lawyer and a
brilliant man of letters. He was sald
bv Hoffman. in his book, Legal
Study" to have been the great pro
! moter of all the legal amendments,
the codes. the consultations, that have
so far taken place among US
Mr.. Sampson was of wealthy parent
age. possessed of university education,
and gay and brilliant socially. 1t was
said of him that he possessed Wit
! enough to have set up a dozen Punches.
He was the author of several books,
one of them, AN Address on Common
Law in which he denounced the com
mon law, as a system wholly unsuited
to our republican form of government.
! This work received attention in this
! country. and as well in England and
! France. and was the origin in this
state of a. movement which led to the
! enactment Of the revised statutes. he
/ was 2. fine musician, playing well sew
eral Instruments, and had q gift for
poetry as well. Among the friends
about him when his only daughter was
a girl were people whose thames are
familiar TO the New York Of today-the
families of Prime, King, Cruger, How
land. Schermerhorn, Crosby, Hoffman,
Newbold. Grinnell, Suydam, Cutting,
Nissan. Stuyvesant, and Livingston.
De Witt Clinton and Chancellor Kent
were his friends and in his house they
met the Emmets. the Mac Nevens, the
Rikers and other Irish exiles.
oil N~rnTN in
GEORGETOWN for many years, and thith-
er her little granddaughter was taken
every year to visit her. This journey
was made in coaches and occupied four
and five days in its accomplishment.
President Jackson was at the time in
the White House, and being of Irish
extraction, he was the warm friend of
the Tone family. Frequently Mrs
Maxwell was taken by her mother and
grandmother to tea there, and also on
Saturdays. when the band played in the
grounds. MI. Maxwell was won't to re-
late the impressions she received from
these visits In those days all Wash
ington turned out on pleasant Sunday
afternoons to hear the Marine band,
and the guests of the president, who
sat on the southern portico Fn such
occasions, beheld q bright scene in the
crowds of people walking about over
to this day Mrs. Maxwell was a. close
student of affairs, and her patriotic
spirit led her to feel more interest than
women do ordinarily in the political
questions Of the day. She was so deep
ly impressed with the sense of the
wrongs that Ireland had, suffered at
the hands of England that she disliked
to use her prayer book because it was
printed at oxford, and she frequently
hot ,ferG7f
this country make American prayer
books In her hall at the time of her
death hung the Irish flag, a beautiful
green banner and everywhere in her !
house We're mementoeS of ireland.
Some years ago her daughter went to |
for the purpose of having |
the remains of her grandmother, !
Wolf Tones widow, and her grand !
father, William Theobald Wolfe Tone, |
from the burying ground there !
to Greenwood. On this occasion she |
carried with her the medals given Wolf |
Tone at Trinity college, the Cross of the i
Legion of Honor given to her grand
father. their miniatures and other art1- |
lies to establish her claim for the |
bodies of those to be removed. The
graves had been cared for by the Irish
American Union, and to this organiza-
ion Miss Maxwell went with her Gre
lentials. The men, soma of them sons
IF martyrs themselves Wept like chill
lren at the sight Of the reminders of
heir id0lized Tone. And when, after
much hesitation and regret, they con-
Ianted TO the removal, their kindness TO
his great granddaughter of Tone was
ouching in its warmth and pathetically
Iorrowful. The remains were brought
o Brooklyn, and on All Saints day,
S91, were inferred in the family plot.
1t the Same time were buried besides
hem the bodies of Mrs. MaxwelPs
William Sampson, her
Grace Sampson, and her
rwn mother, Catherine Ann Tone,
these latter bodies had been removed
rom the Riker family buTying ground
n Long Island. The prayers Of the
Protestant Episcopal church were read
yer them, and "a wreath of ivy was
aid on each new-made grave.
The Society of United Irishmen unit
d in raising funds in all countries to
rect the monument to Wolfe Tone in
Dublin, and at meeting held in the
irand opera house some years ago,
ITs. Maxwell and her sons and daugh-
eTe were present as honOred guests.
'roudly erect sat this descendant of the
reat man of whom all the speakers
we're telling thrilling incidents. and
Then any reference was made to him
he light that ShOne from her eyes
hOwed that deep in her woman nature
we'd the same spirit of chivalry and
atriotism that had animated her he
0ic kinSman.
At the funeral of Mrs. Maxwell, held
! her home, a grandson of John Mitch
Il (the Irish patriot of 1S4S) assisted in
he Episcopal burial service, and her
our sons were the pallbearers. One of
he floral tributes was a huge wreath
f pink roses. tied with an Irish flag.
emit by the Irish society of New York.
Ter daughters, with filial affection.
laced it at the head Of her coffin, and
fterward laid it where it now repOSes,
yer her grave in Greenwood.