The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1906-08-14

A letter which was printed liz
the Yazoo City Herald under
date of August 3, addressed tc
the editor OF that paper, and con-
sisting principally of purported
extracts from the letters of some
person, in which various accusa-
tiOns are made against the man
agement of the Beauvoir Sol
diers Home, has created no little
comment in this city and over
the state, not to mention a great
deal of Indignation among the
friends of the matron, Mrs. Wal
lace.
Mrs. Wallace is a member of
the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy and was for two years
the president of the Biloxi chap
ter, At special meeting of the
ladies of that organization held
yesterday afternoon for that spe-
cific purpose a resolution was
unanimously passed indorsing
and upholding Mrs. Wallace and
the Home. Mrs Wallace was
indorsed in all her WORK, and the
resolution or action of the chap
ter will be published in the pa
pers Of New Orleans, Memphis,
Mobile, Vicksburg, Yazoo City
and Jackson.
One of the accusations brought
against Mrs. Wallace IN the
communication in the Yazoo
City paper referred to, and which
communication by the way is
signed a "Mississippian," and
dated from Itta Bena, is that
Mrs. Wallace is a Yankee. The
u. d, C.. wish it known that they |
have records to show that Mrs. |
Wallace is southern lady and !
that her husband fought in the
Confederate army.
Mrs. Wallace herself in answer |
to this accusation states that she
was born and reared in Lynch
burg, Va, and is the daughter
of James F. Ley, of Lynchburg,
in which city she resided until
her marriage to William Wallace,
of Baltimore, Md, who had been
a member of the Baltimore Light
Artillery, Capt. Latham's bat
terry. Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
came to Biloxi twenty years ago.
Mr.. Wallace died after being
here a short time and was buried
in the Biloxi cemetery. Mrs.
Wallace in speaking of the mat
ter detailed a number of historic
incidents bearing upon the part
that her husband had played in
the Confederate army during
the civil war.
AS to the numerous charges
brought against herself and the
management of the home by the
anonymous letter, Mrs. Wallace
has stated that DR.. Price, the
of the Home, has
gone to Meridian for the pur-
pose of bringing home his daugh-
ter and it is possible will go on
TO Yazoo City to demand the
name of the writer of the letters.
If he does not go to Yazoo City {
and does not find on his return
to Beauvoir satisfactory answers s
to his communication 20 the va |
zoo paper relative to the author |
of the letters, then he will go to {
that city for the express purpose 1
of taking the matter up. "
Mrs. Wallace states that it is s
not the desire of herself or of
DIR. Price to answer the charges
in detail until their author has {
been learned, but that she does '
demand a full investio alton of c
all charges and further states none /
Of these charges and accusations a
against her or the management q
,an be substantiated. Mrs. Wal s
ace has many friends in Biloxi I
made during her long residence q
1ere, who will support her against /
he attack made upon her by the s
anonymous letters. $
Seven or eight old Confederate
soldiers, inmates of the home. c
we're questioned as to the man. r
Ter i'm which the Home was con- t
lucted and were asked whether Q
II not the accusations made a