The evening world., 1911-05-19
TWO WOMEN WEAR
WIDOWS WEEDSFOR
MAJOR B0SW0RTH
Civil War Veterans Supposed
Wife Collapses When She
Learns of Another.
WEDDED, SHE THOUGHT
Son of Real Spouse, Who Is
Still Living, Breaks in
on Her Grief. =.
welded, SHE THOUGHT

= broken womin. gray now and grow
ing oid' In her home az No. 1877 West
ono Hundred and Twenty-ninth stree,
VINO one N p~rntilos happily as n
bride Imagining herself back forty
Nears, . girl again. and the mex, b-e,l.s
INTO pi'eous lamentatlon that her heart
IL broken" Is one living caiel OF a
'oup.e NE led for nearly two gem
'r"toas before his death a month ago
oy Major George g.. Bcsworth, a civil
war veteran, and the last surviving
son OF the late Judge Joseph $. Bos-
worth OF tile Old New York Superior
Court.
Another living sequel OF Bosworth's
NE Is In a modest home in the Bronx.
Where a stern-lipped woman. a,so Old
and gray. has donned WIDOWS weeds
Tor the Major. and with her son. now
tnirty-ive years Old. mourns tho dead
man. NOT as the |fn.thlcss husband who
deserted her n ''e'long : but as thu
rhost Of her one bscf dream of hap.
plne6s.
Major Boswor:h. who was long an
employed Of the Department of Water.
Gas and Electricity. and was popular
among his acqu1intances. was found
dead in bed OF %apop,eXy at the one
Hundred and rwenty-n!uth street house
on April $ last. Mrs. Cora Bosworth,
who had locked upon him as a devoted
husband for nearly forty years, put on
mourning as his WIDOW. her grief soft
ened by tender memories.
Friend Tells Story.
Gut soon came the shock winch turned
these memories to gall and lief. her
weak In mind AMI body. The story was
told to-day by a lifelon :. friend OF Cora
Bosworth, who is now attending the
latter. This woman sad:
Mrs. Bosworth. as We have all known
her for many years. is too III to tell a
coherent story. She was a well 10 d.
young Woman living In Centre Mor!ches,
Ii, when the Major zane there man,
many years ago. lie cougted her and
she loved him dearly. They went away
one day and were marrled-at least al
the nelghbors understood so-;hen set.
tied down there.
Cora had enough money 20 have
lasted them all the.r Ives. but from
time 10 time size turned 10 over to the
Major and he lost d, IN speculation OF
business ventures. They lived ia Centre
Moriches more thar. twenty years. re,
spected by all. Now a. she has left is
the li;tle old homestead In Morlches
where | shall take he, soon to spen,
her last days.
she didn't mind tEr loss Of the money
50 long az she had the MAJORS love
bu. the SHOCK was too much Tor he!
when, one dtv mo-; lp1g ago. a strange,
came here aal Announced that u" va,
Major BpsVu"ih's .o0 AMI ;hlt hi
mother was the Wg,, widow. She live,
Vith him, be rHtf. SnmeNlcrc iu ia,
Bronx, where ar !s emplDs 81 In a res
estate office,
Had Marriage Certificate.
He had his mothers marriage certi
fcate TO prove his claims. 1t was date,
Aug. ~. 1867, and We learned that hit
story was true. He said his father he,
deserted his mother when he was tw,
years old. There had been a quarrel
his mothe- had told him, and the rathe
had s'alkcd II of the house and neve
set foot In II again.
His mother he sail, had been 10,
proud TO make Lcr troubles p1i.il. an,
lad borne her griof silently all thes
year,, living the life OF a widow, unit
Ehe became one actually. Then she IA,
determined to Clain the Majors es,a'o
/, ne had left any, for her sons sake.
Cora went 10 pieces under the blow
Now she has times when she imagine
herself a bride again u IL happy. \
other times sire seems to realize I
some extent her misfortunes and can
not control her grief. II is too sal
for words.
THE Majors son left his card here
bYt We hav lost II and do not knoy
tho address There will 6e 10 cantes
fsr any estate, because the Major lcf
no1c, o evca a viii. lie had nothin
hut a balance on salary due him a
his death which went Tor iaacrll cS
pcrscg"
Senator SAKE Knows Both.
state Senator John q SAKE, VINO
n nephew of Major Bosworth. too
Charge OF the funeral arrangements,
When seen at his Office TO-DAY. tn
Senator said:
There are two elderly ladies' VIII
claim to have been Mai. Bosworth'
wife. ! have met each OF them once
one in May. 1903, when I called on Ma
RoS worth al his home. and the othc
SINCE MS uci'"' N"N' NV '""'" vi az
at my Office and produced a marriaa
certificate. dated Aug. 10, 1861.
Il have no other records respectln
the matter. The events date ibac
nearly forty years, a very cOnsiderab
uerlod before | was born, n | cannt
state what actually transpired and VIII;
the legal status of each may be.
1T Is a strange situation. becau'
there is no one apparently who kne
all about It except Mai. Bosworth hin
self, and the events date back to Il
remote past"