Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1943-01-07

with heayiness of heart viewed its
desolation. 1t was a sorry sight and
a sad experience for the unfortu-
nate man. Creditors took over his
property, fire, flood and thieves
united to complete the desolati0n
He returned to Natchez, Miss.
where he had left his family, and
with the remains of his fortune, in
vested in cotton plantation, but
under his management, or rather
mismanagement, after a few years
he was obliged to sell 1t to pay his
debts.
From Natchez he made long.
move to Montreal, Canada, where
he formed law-partnership with
some former friend and later went
back to his homeland to try to get
hold of some portion of an estate.
which to his disappointment, no
longer existed. After three years
of separation he returned and later
he and his wife went back to Eng
land, where he died at the home of
sister who lived on the Isle OF
Guernsey, and there he was buried
The climate was not conductive
to Margaret's health and she return
ed to- this country, taking up her.
abode in New York, where she Pc
titioned to congress to pay a claiu
OF $4,000 for the loss OF the island
property destroyed by the Virginia
militia. While congress dallied
and quibbled, as it usually does, the
grim messenger of death came and
Margaret Agnew Blannerhassett
passed beyond all need of human
help. She died in a New York ten
ement house and was buried in St
Paups churchyard, New York City
The broad expanse of the Atlantic,
over which the couple voyaged SO
happily fifty years before, now rolls
its restless waters between the two
graves. And what more does this
vast body of water have to do with
this sad tragedy of life? my Theo-
docia!' Where is she? That girl.
so full of life, whose very presence
was the sunlight of joy during that
visit with her father to the EN-
chanted Isle." She who was the
idol of her fathers heart, who
clung to him through the darkest
hours of his checkered career, a de-
votion, the climax of human anrec-
t1on, with never shadow of doubt
or distrust. Where is she amid an !
the vicissitudes of the three lead
ing characters in this sad tragedy
of life? Where is she? you ask
God only knows.
Theodocia left her home and hus-
band in South Carolina to go to the
aid OF her father, who was in strait
ened circumstances, by taking a ship
bound for New York, but the vessel
never reached its destination Var
ious stories gained circulation as to.
it's fate, but it is generally accepted
that it, with it's human freight, was
lost in a gale Off Cape Hatteras-
And Theodocia's father, that man
whose courtly manners and force
full eloquence could move the eyes
OF the senate to tears, what more
can we say of him?
Aaron Burr was once the proud
possessor Of Richmond Hill, a mag
nificent estate on Manhattan Island,
opposite Weehawken, where he shot
Alexander Hamilton. His wealth.
like Blannerhassett's, sIippedd
through his fingers until he faced
poverty. He died in boarding
house in New York and his body
was taken to Princeton, N. j., and
buried beside his forefathers. For
many years his grave was without a
Three almost obscure
graves and the waters of the Allan
.ic hold the remains of the principal
actors of a drama in which the
beautiful island that separate the
waters of the Ohio. was the stage
setting for the most important
scene.
And now, dear reader, does it not
seem, with all the eviednce in, that
he cruel hand of Fate rested a lit
lie too heavily upon those beings
who were creatures of flesh and !.
blood like you and me?
Note-to be continued later r1--
Ter the probable heading of "a Visit !
% the Deserted Isle"