Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 2
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.
There was born at Burnley, in Lancashire, in the year 1796, a child whom the parents got christened by the name of Dorothy. The father was a maker of grinding stones, and his name was John Lee. Dorothy was never within a school door, and, of course, could neither read nor write at any period of her life. At ten she was sent out to work in the fields, and at the age of 15 was married to a lad of 16, named John Peters. This was husband No. 1. John Peters enlisted as a soldier, and fell at Talavera, in 1812. Three weeks after Peters was in the cold ground, Dorothy was married by the military chaplain to Corporal Davis, of the 67th Foot. Davis fell at Vittoria, and three days afterwards his widow married Bombardier Ross, of the Royal Artillery. Ross 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, being united in marriage to Private Young, of the 93rd Foot. Young received his quietus at the skirmish of Neive, and his disconsolate widow, a few days afterwards, joined hands with Private Mick Brassy, of the Connaught Rangers. Mick, poor fellow, only enjoyed his married bliss 26 days, a cannon ball taking off his head in one of the engagements in the Pyrenees. Our heroine mourned for her loss only eleven days, when she was mated to Sergeant Moore, 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 evening of his marriage day, but his wife 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 a nurse at “Europe’s Crowning Victory,” and we next hear of her at Edinburgh Castle as the wife of another Sergeant Campbell. She was married in succession to Private Hastie, Corporal M’Vittie, and Sergeant John Scott, and died as the wife of Samuel Hay, a labourer in Dalry, Edinburgh, in her 56th year, never having had any family, but having been wedded 13 times.
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