Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-06


tory does not record the outcome.
Another case where a nurse did not
succeed at law was that Of Miss Mary
Catherine Smedley, who was the chief
beneficiary named under the will of
Hiram H. Lamport, an octogena-
rian, who left 100000, and whom she
had nursed during his declining
years. The will was set aside and
she is now fighting an appeal.
But these are isolated cases in
which the nurse has not been vic
torious. The Duryea case on the other
hand is typical of the generosity of
patients toward those who have car
ed for them long and tenderly.
Thomas Caldwell, a Pensacola, Fla.
recluse, left his $4,000 estate to Miss
Annie Burkhart, who nursed him for
two years. J. B. Currier Of Lowell,
Mass, left a similar fortune to Nora
Hessian, who had watched by his
bedside for six years. Sarah B. Har-
rison, sister of former Gov. Harrison,
of Connecticut, left $4,000 estate to
Miss Eva r. Gilker, who had been her
faithful nurse for three years. The
list could be continued indefinitely.
Nurses who have not been remem-
bered in the will of their patients have
sometimes collected petty damages
against the estates of the deceased.
Miss Blanche V. Eytenbetz Of this
city obtained a verdict Of $4,000
against the executors OF Wallace
Stuart, for services rendered him as
nurse during his last illness, when
he was a boarder at her mothers
house, and this despite the fact that
he had left her $1,000 in his will. She
did not think it enough and the jury
agreed with her.
Men marry their nurses so fire.
quently that the instances are beyond
all counting. A curious case was that
of Ralph ]. VOORHEES,, nephew of
Brooklyn politician. He married
Adele F. Goufton, who nursed him
through typhoid fever after he had
become engaged to Miss Faith e.
Moore. Miss Moore visited him regu-
larly at the hospital, but the charms
of Miss Goufton were too strong for
Voorhees,, and they were welded Sc
cretly. Then Miss Moore, whose faith
er, David F. Moore, was formerly su-
perintendent of buildings in Brook
lyn, sued Voorhees, for $4,000 dam
ages for alleged breach of promise.
Charles E. Halliwell, formerly first
vice president of the American Tobac-
co company, married Miss Ruth Alice
Cole, who had been summoned to
nursed him in the Hotel Majestic after
a severe operation in 1906. The fol-
lowing year he died, leaving her a
fourth Of his S5,000,000 estate.
Lieut.. ]. Hammond Harding, son of
Philip w. Harding, broker, married
Miss Agnes Eilverthorne, a niece Of
Elihu Root, as soon as he had recov-
cred from a serious illness in which
she played the part Of his nurse, two
years ago. But she broke down un-
der the strain Of nursing him, and he,
being convalescent, turned the tables
by nursing her, so this was clear
case Of Cupid's "tit-for-tat."
John Coates Brown Of Philadel-
phia, vice president Of the Episcopal
hospital there and one of the Quaker
City's wealthy citizens, fell in love
with Miss Emily Payne, a nurse in
the Pennsylvania hospital, and mar
ried her. They met when he was go
ing the rounds Of the hospitals on an
inspection tour, and though the dis
crepancy in their years was very
great the result proved that Venus In
a nurses cap and gown is most en-
ticing siren.
Two years ago Alcinous H. Young,
one Of Seattles most prominent men.
formerly it's city treasurer, married
Miss Amanda SchmitZ, who had
nursed him in a Seattle hospital In
the same week Auguste F. Chamot,
who made fortune in China and lost
it in the San Francisco earthquake,
married Miss Elizabeth Dollar, who
had been his nurse during the illness
that followed the ruin Of his fortune
in 1907. And barely a month later,
in October. 1909, the marriage Of John
E. Merselis, a Paterson merchant, re-
puted a millionaire to Miss Catherine
Walsh, a trained nurse who had nurs-
ed his first wife during the latter's
last illness, was announced.
The marriage Of widowers to the
nurses Of their first wives Is not at all
uncommon, and a pertinent instance
is that Of Albert v. de Goicouria,
father Of Mrs. August Belmont. Jr.'
and of Mrs. w. Scott Cameron. He
married in June, 1910, Miss Frances
B. Tinley. a Bellevue nurse who had
attended his first wife.
Clifford S. Heinz, son Of the multi
millionaire pickle manufacturer OF
Pittsburg, married in 1907 Miss Vir-
ginia Campbell, who had attended his
sister, the wife of j. L. Given, In New
York. Because the marriage was per-
formed by justice Of the peace in
stead Of a clergyman the elder Heinz
frowned upon 1t.
Some tragedies have been mingled
with the romances of nurses. A not
able one was the suicide Of John
Whitley a rich manufacturer. He
had fallen in love with the nurse who
watched by his bedside during a SER
ious illness following the death Of his
first wife. But his children Che was
nearly 60 and his nurse sweetheart
less than half that age) did not ap-
prove the match. He married despite
their opposition and thereafter began
to brood over the differences with his
offspring. For six years he grieved.
and then, in November. 1907, he shot
his wife dead as she lay sleeping and
then killed himself.