New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-28
MRS. Il. c. KETCHUM DEAD
Wrote "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and
"a Battle Call"

Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum. author OF THE
Bonnie Blue Flag" the Confederate war song. died
yesterday in 81. Vincent's Hospital. after less than
a weeks illness. in her eightieth year.
Mrs. Ketchum wrote THE Bonnie Blue Flag IN
Memphis. Tenn. In 1863 when her husband. Leoni-
das Ketchum, then adjutant Of the 2sth Tennessee.
received a wound which later resulted I'm his death.
"a Battle Call" a song ontemLoraneous with 1.-THE
Bonnie Blue Flag" also was written IN Memphis at
this time. When Memphis occupied by the
federal troops Mrs. Ketchum refused to take the
"ironclad' oath OF allegiance and was banished
from the city.
Mrs Ketchunn's first marriage was to her cousin.
a Mr. Bradford. and after his death when she was
left with two children TO support. her per was
almost continually busy. In the last few years.
which she spent In Rome. she kept up these activi-
ties. She returned here about year ago. and was
preparing book her lifelong friend. the actress
Charlotte Cushman.
Mrs. Ketchum's maternal grandfather. Judge
Fielding Bradford. with his brother John. founded
THE Kentucky Gazette" IN Lexington, in 1871, said
to be the first newspaper published west OF the Al
leghanies. Mrs. Ketchum's father was Major Ben
jamin Stuart Chambers a Virgnian and relative
OF Ephraim Chambers compiler OF the first ency-
clopaeda In the English language. and who is
buried in Westminster Abbey. Major Chambers
one the twenty IN the forlorn hope at the battle
Of the River Rasin in Kentucky. in 1873. and one of
the six who survived the massacre which followed
He afterward was a lawyer and legislator IN Ken
lucky His children were brought up in Scott Coun-
ty, near Georgetown. Ky.
After the death of her FIRST husband, Mrs
Ketchum appointed in 1855. principal Of the
High School for Girls in Memphis. She was
ried TO Leonidas Ketchum in 1853.
After the latter's death and her Punishment from
Memphis by the federal authorities Mrs. Ketchum
returned TO Georgetown. Ky. and there in spite
OF turbulent conditions she opened a normal school
and succeeded with It. After the sha
turned to Memphis and established school for
young women.
Mrs Ketchum IN Rome at the time OF the
ordination Of her nephew the Rev. DIR. B. Stuart
Chambers now a curate of the Roman Catholic
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, at SeVepty-hrst-
st. and Broadway, this city. Late in life Mrs.
Ketchum became Roman Catholic and Joined an
order OF ST. Dominic. the members OF which
take the same the Convent Tertiaries. but
who live IN the world and wear the secular dress
wearing the Dominican habit only feast days
Her religious Sister AmabiliS Mrs
Ketchum. since her return from Rome a year ago
made her home at the Windemere, at Fifty-sev-
enth-st. and Ninth-ave She leaves daughter,
Mrs A w. Hart and three grandchildren, Of
louisville Ky, and her only nephew. DR.. Cham.
hers Her funeral will be held Friday at 10
n m with mass. by DR.. Chambers, in the Church
OF the Blessed Sacrament. ~, - -,
Mrs Kctchum's poems include Dolores. . Christ
E-idclis and la Note" she wrote a novel
.SeIv Bracken." published in 1855.
she last appeared in public H. October 1888 when
che took the part OF Adam in "As You Like It
eiven by the Professional Wonan's League. in
Wollack's Theatre.