The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-24

extent, she has stored the silver for the present in the vaults of the Safe De- posit and Trust Company in Baltimore
 To a reporter of The Sun Miss Dor sey said yesterday that until she re- ceived Mrs. Dayis's letter she had been unaware of the existence of the silver. She said she had never seen and nad no acquaintance either with Mrs. Da- wis or Miss Winnie Davis. to whom the silver would have belonged eventually if she had lived The story, though, as Miss Dorsey told 1t. of the friendshlp of her uncle and aunt, MT. and mrs. Dorsey, for Mir. and Mrs Davis gNes A glimpse backward into a chapter III the history of the days both before anu after the struggle between the Nor'h and the South and of the loyal anec- ton and unselfish devotion that were shown by the people Of the Southianu to the one whom they loved ana reHer- ed as the President or the Cohleue' aos '',s
 MT. Samuel worthington Dorsey was native of Howard County. some wear~ before the war he removed 10 Mississippi and there he married MISS sarah A. Ellis of NatcheZ. Mrs. DOT sev and Mrs Davis, who betore nel marriage was Miss Vafina Howeii' aIoo of Natchez, were schoolmates ana close friends- For MT. Davis. Mrs. Dorsey had a feeling of profound affection ana Admiration. a feeling that was snare%' by her husband.
 Soon after the general amnesty s waS decided-this was in December: ioo
 Mir. Davis returned to Missssipp,. For a time he was interested ,an. III em Mississippi Valley Company. protect for encouraging trade between Ne" orleans and South American and Flu
 ronean ports. The undertaking proveo to be premature, and MT. DAVIS went to Beauvoir where he began the prep aratfon of his history of "The Hise anu Fall of the Confederate states oi America. He made his home m cottage. rented at first and subsequent ly purchased from Mrs. Dorsey.
 Mrs. Dorsey died in 1879, leaving no direct heirs. Her husband at ms death' some time previous. had left her ap- soluteiy without reservation ms entire estate. comprising plantations in Lou isiana and Mississippi, and other prop ertv real and personal. After Mrs- porsey's death it was found that she had left Mir. Davis the bulk or her properry. Besides the main oequest' there were, in fact, only few minor legacie:, which she asked MT. DaVis to distribute, and one of these was the gift of a portion of one of the Louis lana plantations to MT. Dorseys niece
 Miss Mamie Dorsey of Howard County
 To make it practically impossible for M:. Davis to refuse to become the legatee of Mrs. Dorseys estate, rever- sion was made in case of has refusal | to his youngest daughter.
 The fact that she was mentioned III | the original will and was known to oe | a favorite of the Mississippi Dorseys is generally understood to be the reason that Mrs. Davis selected Miss Mamie
 Dorsey to be the recipient of the Dor | sey silver. In the letter in which she informed Miss Dorsey that she wal | forwarding the silver to her, Mrs. Da | wis said that 1t had been packed away | and had not been used for many years. Miss Dorsey said, while speak
 ing of the gift yesterday, that the ser vice and the extra pieces showed yer,
 plainly that they had not been usee
 for a long time. She doubted if the,
 had been used since Mrs. Dorsey ( death. The service. Miss Dorsey said
 is complete, and all the pieces In thu
 collection are of the quaint shape aDe
 elaborate decoration in vogue forty ol fifty years ago.