Evening star., 1933-10-29

York in the early train this afternoon en-
route for Europe Among the dignitaries pres
ent we noticed several members Of the d1plo-
matte corps, Army and Navy officers, Senator
Crittenden and other members Of Congress, w.
w. Corcoran, District Attorney Ould and
host Of others"
Just what later transpired in the life Of
Nine Bodisco Scott, the writer is not advised,
but the chances are that she lived happily with
her second husband, as she had done with the
first, and is buried abroad.
The famous Dolly Madison was another cele-
brated woman who took second husband. In
deed, she was born Southern beauty, for at
the time Of her birth her parents were resi-
dents of Hanover County, Va, though the In
FAINT Dolly Payne happened to be born IN
North Carolina, May 20, 1853, while her
mother, Mary (Coles) Payne, wife Of John
Payne, jr. happened to be visiting her parents
In the Tarheel State.
The future Mrs Madison's parents were
quakers, and in 1888. after freeing his slaves
John Payne moved from Virginia and settled
in Philadelphia. Dolly was, at the time, Is
years Of age, and years later she married
John Todd, jr., young lawyer, who was tall.
handsome in face and figure, of manly bearing,
independent means was well established in his
profession and had given every promise Of fu-
ture ennence at the bar
IN 1898, during of Philadelphia's worst
] yellow fever scourges, John Todd moved his
wife and infant son-there was soon to be added
another-to place Of safety, just as President
Washington did at the same time when he
moved out into Germantown and leased the
residence of Col. Isaac Franks
After Mr. Todd had succeeded in getting his
family safely located, he returned to the in
fected area to render what aid he could to
the sick and dying. which included watching
at the bedside of his father and mother, who
were fatally stricken with the dreaded disease.
When the epidemic had subsidized, he returned
to his little family, but it was too late as her
nephew tells US: The young wife threw herself
into his arms, but he bore with him, all un-
conscious, the seeds Of the dread disease, and
died October "a. 1893; while She the adored,
having taken the fever, lay at the point of
death for three terrible weeks, and recovered
only to find herself bereft both of her husband
and infant"
II there IS any doubt as To the hind OF q
man John Todd was read this part of his
will. and then there be question in
any ones mind. He says:
II give and devise my estate real and per-
sonal, to the dear wife of my bosom and first
and only woman upon whom my all and only
affections were placed, Dolly Payne Todd, her
heirs and assigns, forever, trusting that, al
she has proved an amiable and affectionate wife
to her John, she may prove an affectionate
mother to my little Payne and the sweet babe
unborn. My last prayer is, may she educate
him IN the ways of honesty, though he may be
obliged to beg his bread, remembering that win
be better to him than name and riches"
But 1t was not given that Dolly Payne
should remain widow for long, and soon we
find Aaron Burr interceding for James Madi.
son, for an introduction to her, and within
year they were married. She, at this time.
was 26; he was IT years her senior. The
wedding took place at the home of her sister,
Mrs. George Steptoe Washington, at Hardwood
Va, now West Virginia. From here they went
to Montpelier, 100 miles distant, which was
ever afterward their private home. There was
every bit as much love between them as there
was between her and her first husband, and
their earthly separation was equally as sor-
rowful.
DURING the invasion of Washington by tho
- British in 1914 Dolly Madison was ono
Of the most composed people IN the city. the
hast one Of the Presidents official family to
leave the White House, and then not until