The Lass that Loved a Soldier

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 288, 14 April 1894, Page 4

The Lass that Loved a Soldier

MARRIED TO 18 HUSBANDS. There was born at Burnley, in Lancashire, in the year 1796, a child, whom the parents christened by the name of Dorothy. The father was a maker of grinding stones, and his name was John Lee. Dorothy wag never within a school door, and could neither read nor write. At" ten she was sent out to work in the fields, and at the age of 15 she was married to a lad of MS, named John Peters. This was husband No. 1. John Pet- , ers enlisted for a soldier, and fell at Talaveraia 1812, Three weeks after Peters was in 1 the cold ground, Dorothy was married to Corporal Davies, of the 67th Foot. Davies fell at Vittoria, and three days afterwards his widow married Bombardier Ross, of tbe Royal Artillery. Rosa met his death by a cannon shot from the ramparts of St. Sebastian, and in a month afterwards his widow changed her name to Young, beirm united in marriage to Private Young, of tbe 93rd Foot. Young received his quietus at tbe skirmish of Nive, and his disconsolate widow, a few days at erwards, joined hands with Private Wick Brassy, ol the Connaught Rangers. Mick, poor fellow, only enjoyed his marriage bites 26 days, a ; cannon ball taking off his bead in one of the engagements in ;he Pyrenees. Our heroine mourned for her loss only eleven days, when she was mated to Sergeant Moor*, of the 42nd Foot. Moore was one of the first shot at Bayonne, and our heroine then became the wife of Sergeant Campbell, of the same regiment. Campbell was killed in a sortie the •veiling of his marriage day, but his widow still stuck to the camp. She married for the eighth time, Corporal Black, of the 79th Highlanders. He died from natural causes, about a month before Waterloo. Our widow appears as nurse at " Europe's crowning victory," and we next near of her at Edinburgh Castle as the wife of another Sergeant Campbell, She was married in succession to Private Hastie, Corporal M'Vittie, and Sergt. John Scott, and died as the wife of Samuel Hay, a laborer in Dairy, Edinburgh, in her 56th year, never having had any family, but having been wedded thirteen times.