Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — RE JOINS HER HUSBAND [ARTICLE]

RE JOINS HER HUSBAND

Widow of General Lew Wallace Has Also Passed to the .Other Shore. STAYED BEHIND ABOUT A YEAR Had Been 11l for Some Time—Sequel of a Sensational Elopement —lndiana Items.

Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 3. Mrs. Susan E. Wallatw, widow of General Lew Wallace, the distinguished general and statesman and author of “Ben Hur,” is dead at her home in this city Tuesday night, following an Illness of little more than three weeks. The end was calm and peaceful. The members of her immediate family and the two trained nurses were with her when tlie end came. She would have been 77 years old had she lived until next Christmas Day. Will Rest Beside Her Husband. Although definite arrangements for tlie funeral have not been made, the services will be held at the Wallace home in this city some time Friday. Mrs. Wallace will be buried in beautiful Oak Hill cemetery, near Crawfordsville, beside her distinguished hus band. Mrs. Wallace's illness dates back to last June when she suffered an attack of pneumonia. ’Three weeks ago Mrs. Wallace suffered a severe attack. which the physicians pronounced oedema of the heart. This attack came on Saturday night, Sept. 7, and it was thought then that she could not survive the night. Daughter of a Pioneer. With Mrs. Wallace when she died were Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Wallace. Mrs. Lane. Colonel Elston, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Eva Millen, Dr. H. W. Ristine, tlie famidy physician aud the trained nurses. Mrs. Wallace’s maiden name was Susan Elston. She was the fourth child of Colonel and Mrs. Isaac E. Elston, pioneer residents of Crawfordsville. She was born here on Christmas Day in 1836 and would have been 77 years of age had she lived until Dec. 25 of this year. General Lew Wallace, her husband, died about a yeaj ago. She Was Counted Three Years. Mrs. Wallace first met Lew Wallace Immediately after the Mexican war. After a courtship of three years, they were married May (5, 1852. Although Wallace had lived at Crawfordsville previous to their marriage, and bad attended Wabash college, he was living in Covington when he was mar ried. and there they continued to live until 1853, when they moved to Craw - fordsville, where Wallace began the practice of the law.

DEATH KN DS THEIR ROMANCE Had Mach Trouble Getting Married and in a Few Months the Husband Dies. Columbus, Ind., Oct. 3. —Nathan Aybuckle, aged 23 who figured in a sensational elopeinent April 23 last; when he wedded Miss Ella Thomas, daughter of Luke Thomas, a wealthy farm er, is dead of typhoid fever. Mrs. Arbuckle’s parents never forgave him for marrying their daughter and had never been in bis home* on the Mineral Springs farm since their marriage. Miss Thomas and Arbuckle were three days trying to get married and during that time the bride remained at the home of Arbuckle's parents. As her parents objected to the marriage no minister here would marry them, and being unable to even obtain a rig they walked from Azalia to Elibazethtown, where they took the train to Indianapolis and were married. Thomas warned the county clerk not to give his daughter a license, but she was of nge and demanded it. Got in Front of a Trolley. Shelbyville, Tnd., Oct. 3. Roy Fisher, who lives near Acton, was badly injured by an interurban car, just out of Indianapolis. Fisher was driving a horse and was on his way home when the car struck him. The horse escaped injury, but the wagon was demolished. ■