The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-02
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elopement of his daughter, winsome
| lass, with Lieutenant Jefferson Davis,
afterward the president of the South
ern Confederacy. She died six months
tafterward, never reconciled to her pa
rents.
SURRENDERED HER HEART TO A
! SOLDIER.
Two years were passed in New Ha-
ven at the young ladies' school of Miss
tApthorpe, one of the leading inStitu-
| tons of the time, attended by many
| of the young women from the we'll
known families of the Eastern cities.
Her return to Fort Winnebago consum-
| ed nearly two months, and, added to
the novelty of the journey was an oc-
easional dash of danger and the spice
of adventure.
/ The varying fortunes of war on the
frontier carried the young girl to many
different places-now this fort, now
| that, now it was a long journey with
! the troops through a savage region
infested with still more savage IN
dams, now a long tour of the South,
visiting some of the older cities and
| towns, where she saw more Of the So
cial side of military life. Here with
hex parents she was intimately asso-
ciated with such men as Generals Tay-
Tor and Jackson, afterward presidents
of the United States, and with many
| others in the South, famous as social
or political leaders of the nation half
century or more ago. This constant
change, this Kaleidoscope view of a
strangely interesting life, could not but
have made deep impression, an i'm
preston not to be eradicated even by
the stirring events of her later life, =
| In the year 1886 when but sixteen
years of age. she was married to Lieut..
H. p Van Clevee, a young officer of the
regular army and it was not until
some time after her marriage that she
was for any great length of time out
of hearing of the bugle or out of sight
of the flag. Even in later years when
the war between the North and South
frokes out, and her husband re-entered
the service, she again took up the army
life in the South, as we'll as at Fort
Smelling, where her girlhood days had
been passed so eventually.
When all the days of war were over
when her husband, after his long years
of successful frontier service, had won
his eagle and his star in the war Of the
rebellion, the Daughter of the Regi-
ment, then a mature woman, entered
upon the steadily widening activities OF
| her peace-time life.
ON THE VERY VERGE OF STAR
WALTON.
Dangers of new type, and experience:
of strange sort, met her in the frontier
life which she and her husband LIVED
for some years after their marriage
They had settled upon a farm to try
the9tilling of the soil. They were fal
removeds from friends and even from
l any community other than the small
settlements scattered here and Their,
over the new territory of the grea
West. Some idea of the condition:
t which surrounded them may be found
in an experience which befeu then
, during their first year. The winter
had been unusually long and severe
and their store of provisions ran low
1t was a long distance to the neares
base of supplies, and communication
(, with the outside world had been GU
off. Added to the other features {
2 band of Indians was in the neighbor
: hood, and these Indians were by n,
? means as friendly as might have beef
wished. One night they broke into TIL
. granary where their wheat was stored
and stole as much as they wished.
In doing this large amount of brok
[ len glass became mixed in with thu
$ wheat which the Indians left, so 70
many days, amidst much merry story
telling and many a joke and laugh, il