Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — An Old Romance Revived. [ARTICLE]

An Old Romance Revived.

The determination of Gen. Sherman’s son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, to become a priest, revives the romantic story of the life and love of one of Gen. Scott’s daughters. As the story goes, this daughter fell deeply in love with a member of one of the foreign legations. The attachment was reciprocal, but the match was so bitterly opposed by the old hero of Lundy’s Lane that it was broken off. She cared nothing for the world after that, and very soon was received as a nun in the Georgetown Convent. Her lover returned to his native country, and was soon enrolled in the priesthood of the Catholic Church. In subsequent years he was ordered to Georgetown College, and took his turn in hearing the confessions of the nuns in the convent. On one of these occasions Miss Scott knelt in the confessional to her former lover, and under such circumstances a recognition took place. She fainted, went into a rapid decline and soon died, and he left the country again, never to return. So a Washington gossip declares.