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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 176, 24 August 1878, Page 4

The Washington Post says Dr. Mary Walker is dying in a hospital in that city. Ifc gives the following sketch of her life .—"Mary Walker was born about the year 1830, in Oswego, New York. Her parents were the best of people, who looked upon their daughter not as a wayward, but as a peculiar girl. Mary was a superior scholar, and made good use of the few opportunities afforded her. She is a regular graduate in medicine, although many have believed that medically she is an impostor. Quite early in life she married a Dr. Miller, but the match was an unfortunate one. She detested alcohol in all its forms, while he was fond of ifc, and besides she believed that he was not true to her. About twelve years ago she tried to obtain a divorce, but he successfully resisted and defeated her on the ground that he had always been ready and willing to live with her, but that she deserted him without a cause. When the war broke out Mary espoused the side of her section with her whole soul. Afc ouce she had charge of a United States hospital in either Kentucky or Tennessee. She was captured and confined in Libby Prison four months. The Confederates believed her to be a spy and treated her harshly, bnt her unbending will never yielded. When they learned her true status in the United States army she was liberated. She came to Washington afc the fall of Eichmond. Of her personal eccentricities, Mary Walker is known particularly for the astonishing tenacity she has exhibited upon the subject of dress. It may be that she is partially insane, but no person ever lived that

had a purer or kinder heart. At the time of the hanging of Mrs. Surrat the doctor made repeated and successful effort to witness the scene. This curiosity may or not have arisen from a morbid desire to see a woman suffer the death penalty, but ifc is nevertheless a stain upon her otherwise fair reputation." r