Show Book of Rare Melancholy Love Ends Sweetheart of 1862 1362 Soldier Diesi Dies i c c Lived in Seclusion for Past 67 Years I BINGHA BINGHAMTON N. N Y Jan 19 P V Fanny Read is dead and the book of a rare melancholy love lo is ended The drums of war ar rolled their staccato staccato staccato stac stac- cato call in 1862 Fanny Read was 19 years cars old then The One Hundred and First infantry gay bustling and eager was fas encamped near her home in Hancock Graybeards shook their heads Youth laughed and ond looked for fora a lark One young officer of the One Hundred Hundred Hundred Hun Hun- dred and First New York infantry captured the heart of pretty Fanny Read They pledged their troth Then came the day to break camp On to the wars It was a time for lovers to say farewell But there was no goodbye goodbe between Fanny Read and her soldier sweetheart Her lIer I father forbade it Ridiculous he I said You are arc too young oung even to think of love Soon he consoled her you will vilI forget She did not forget The years passed pass cd She remained constantly in the house Perhaps the soldier would return Perhaps Perhaps- But war laughs at love and leers Jeer at loyalty When the men finally were mustered out the war over Fann Fanny Reads Read's gay young officer was not there Perhaps he too had been lonely Fanny Read who had been too young oung to love renewed her vows of seclusion Never would she leave her home She kept faith with her loneliness for or 67 61 years ears Only four times in that period did she leave home Each time it was for the funeral of a rela rela- ti tie live e Her parents died Only a servant remained Two vo years ago they brou brought ht her here to the state hospital There she died yesterday Tomorrow or perhaps the tile day after there thero will be another funeral funeral- and Fanny Reads Read's self imposed debt 1 to love lovo will have been paid 14 j |