The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28

grim reaper left her widow and her
'hlld IN orphan.
Her courage. however. camc again
% her rescue. Refusing financial aid
ProHercd by her husband S comrades,
she obtained 4 government rlerkship
IN Washington, which she still holds.
Although once seriously threatened
with blindness she attended faithfully
"a the rearing and education Of the son
and only child. whom she has Just lost
Mrs Garfield S solacc
M widow of i Civil war general
has secured more popular sympathy
or suffered deeper grief than Mrs.
Garfield. who now divides her time bc.
tween Cleveland. o. and Pasadena
Cal. II has now been over City
two years since she welded the in.
ture president, who had been her fcl.
low student at Hiram college, and who.
after their marriage, became Campbell
Ilte preacher. then soldier, congress
man and president This summer will
bear the thiriieth anniversary Of the
sad July day when the faithful wife
and mother, overwrought by her first
social season in the white house re.
ceived in her sickroom, at Long
Branch. the news that her husband
while setting ont 20 Join her. had been
felled hv the assassin 9 bullet. But
since that terrible summer with its
weeks Of anguish which she spent al
his bedside. she has secured some com
pcnsation in the iov of seeing her sons
grow up TO be distinguished men-tht
one gaining Il place in the cabinet and
the other the presidency Of well
known college, And besides giving
such men to her country she has de
voted her time to philanthroplc works
conspicuous among which have beer
the donation OF large sum to thu
Kansas university which bears hel
martyred husband s name.
Mrs Custer an Author,
Mrs. Custer is another of the sur
yivin9 widows who have not been IdI'
in their sorrow, Like Mrs. Logan anC
| Mrs. Pickett, she accompanied her hus
band to the seat of war. and after th'
close Of that conflict shared with hin
the discomforts and perils of the from
tier fighters life, during his lndial
campaigns; Since his death at Tx
hands of the red men she has WRITER
books and delivered lectures. She still
lives in New York city.
Last Monday was the hfty-first an
niversarv of the marriage of Georg
! B, Mcclellan and Ellen Mary Marcy
which good lady still lives in retire
ment in Morristown, y. J. Like Mr.!
Sheridan and Mrs Logan, Mrs Nc
Clellan Is the daughter as we'll as th
widow of an armv officer. Her father
Brigadier General Randolph B. Marcy
was a West Pointer, n veteran of tn
Black Hawk. Mexican and Civil wars
famous sportsman, big game huntc
and explorer While he was eXplorln
the Red River country, during tn
early ffties, he had with him pluck
lieutenant Of engineers. who had lat
ly won a brevet for distinguished Sc
vices in the Mexican war,
Wooed the Commander Daughte
This stocky young herp-later TO |
known the country over as "Littl
Mac fell in love with his con
) mander's pretty daughter. After ha'
, ing served the army as official ol
server Of the Crimean war. McClella'
| now n cavalry captain, resigned b
f commission to become chief engine,
and soon afterward vice president
: the Illinois Central railroad, and
r was soon after this that he marie
4 Ellen Marcy. They settled down
= Cincinnati and had happy HON
V maintained on his generous salary, b,
c before the first anniversary Of the
e wedding had come around Sumter h;