The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
WHAT THE WOMEN
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were then to be seen. The cotton FORM
ing the ramparts was also to be burned.
Mr. Jury hurried away, leaving the
stunned woman to grasp the situation.
In a few moments The household was
reused, the neighbors Joined and they got
into the street In time to stay the torcnes
that would have inevitably burned the
historic old building, SO dear to not only
the hearts OF all Alabama, but of the
south, and also destroyed the homes OF
those devoted women. The men insisted
on the burning, but the women settled
the matter by taking their children
white and black We're pressed into service
and placing them on the cotton, bidding
the men seek safety. Among the children
who spent the remainder of that exciting
night were Mrs. Thos. Jones and her
cousin, JUNE Riggs"-now the honorable
state librarian, ever faithful to trust con-
fided to him, even as u child. Exhausted
by sleepiness and excitement, he did not
fall off his post Of duty. Let all who
feel a holy pride in our old building, SO
consecrated TO the glorious past, ever
hold in grateful memory the name of the
intelligent and patriotic woman who
used every effort 10 preserve IL for US or
today.
In a stately home on Perry street lived
the family of Col. Marion A. Baldwin,
whose presiding genius was the gentle
mistress. Every housewfely virtue was
hers; within her home she delighted TO
greet her friends and dispense her hos
pitallty In that atmosphere the virtue
of self -forgetfulness grew apace, and
when the demands of the war taxed her
gentle nature and but limited strength,
she neither shrank from unpleasant duty
nor faltered in her faith that all would
be well in the end. Into this home of this
Of Ia IN a m
received sick and wounded soldiers as
soon as the physicians permitted minis
trations outside the hospitals; here they
were .fattened for the front" as they
laughingly expressed it, but they were
eager for the fattening process ana ioath
to leave.
One day while her daughters were en-
Pertaining the convalescents Emitting IN
hand the while), young man called VINO
had hitherto refused to join the army.
He sat and listened to the accounts OF
battles marches and retreats until ne
could stand 1t no longer. He arose and,
asking one Of the girls to accompany MIN
to the porch He declared his love, but
the patriotic girl candidly told him that
she could love no man who loved himself
better than his country. He went sor-
rowfully away, Joined the army and was
killed in the first battle he saw. is II TO
he wondered at that many soldier BOY
would have preferred to take fair prls-
oner from that household to capturing
the most famous redoubt? the daugn-
ters who sustained the dear mother In all
her efforts to aid her country were Ann,
sarah Gussie, Genie and Fannie they
became experts in scraping lint for the
bosnitAls. and nearly all of Mrs. Bald
wins treasures of linen went TO the Sa-
n,ar;tan service of binding up the
wounds" of her country.
ont in the pleasant country, just south
NJ the city's limit. where lived the Tay-
,nrs c1antons. Cltheralls, MacIntyres,
IJuhbards. Fowlers, Gilmers, Abercrom-
,ies Rradfords and Grahams, still stands
,ohie old residence which in the days
op the war was the home or another
woman who wrote her name on inc
hearts of her countrymen. Mrs. 1uose
Phelan held back nothing rom 'ne a.aas
of sacrifice-what is the giving OF soous
and chattels and time and strength pc
s,de the gift of the first-born? Truly, she
was one of the south's Cornenas.
Tho old Jones residence. at the north,
r,ast corner of Lawrence and Adams, VIII
soon be a thing of the past. IL IS mes.
sro,, which the birds have hown-some
to lyon distant SKY ana otno ba,,nu.eJ
of their own. But how many hailo"eu
memories does it still Notwithstanding
~ davs of luxurious ease ana elegant
hosnitality: of days Of anxiety Tor those
at home and those in the neid. no Won
der those women and children sought oc
cupation even in the grewsome wards OF
the hospitals sense of duty united
70 keen desire TO help the cause In
some way. urged them. So, we learn tnat
Mrs. Rush Jones' daughters accompanied
her on errands of mercy and thus We're
,nstled the lesson OF kindly thought for
others that has roped them into gracious
women. Miss Virginia Jones-now Mrs.
Vass-well remembers her services in the
hospitals She says she can shut her
ewes and still see those wan features
that stamped themselves on her memory.
Yet no consideration Of youth withheld