From the Daily Advocate, October 8, 1902, page 2.
Yesterday this community was called upon to pay its last tribute of respect to a sainted woman whose life and labors had been interwoven with history through years or prosperity as well as adversity. Mrs. Edward White Robertson, born Mary Jane Pope, was one of those lovable characters whose life and labors have left their imprint upon the history of this state and Nation. her husband, the late distinguished citizen of Baton Rouge, Hon. E. W. Robertson, familiarly known as Col Ed. Robertson, was often honored, and in return did honor to his native parish and State. She was in the true sense of the word his helpmate and companion, sharing his honors; enduring with him the hardships and sufferings which the cruel war imposed, and finally rounding a life rich in all that goes to ennoble her sex and to make Southern womanhood honored and blessed wherever known.
Mrs. Robertson was born at Rosedown plantation the parish of West Feliciana, on September 25, 1829. Her father was Dr. Nathaniel Pope, one of the early pioneers of Louisiana, who immigrated from Kentucky in the early part of the last century. Her mother was Martha Johnson, daughter of Isaac Johnson, who was also one of the early pioneers of Louisiana Territory. On the 15th day of April, 1847, she was married to Edward White Robertson, from which union there were born eleven children of whom five survive, namely, Samuel M. Robertson, M. P. Robertson. F. C. Robertson, Mrs. J. M. Sherrouse and Miss Lulu E. Robertson.
Among her children who died after Maturity were Mrs, C. J. Barrow, wife of Mr. C. J. Barrow of Baton Rouge, who left a large family of children, and Mrs. E. S. Robertson, wife or Mr. E. S. Robertson of Catahoula Parish, who also left a large family of children.
When hostilities broke out during the war, her family was in affluent circumstances. Hen. husband the Hon. R. W. Robertson at once enlisted in the Confederate army and served at Vicksburg with his regiment the 27th Louisiana. Mrs. Robertson was intensely southern in sentiment, and lent her aid and sympathy in every way towards assisting in equipping confederate soldiers. She was a member of the sewing societies, and helped also to make cartridges and prepare lint to be used in dressing the wounds of the soldiers. In 1862, when Farragut's fleet passed New Orleans she was living in a comfortable and beautiful home just erected near the corporate limits of Baton Rouge. When the fleet reached Baton Rouge in 1862 it bombarded the town and took possession of it, there being at that time no Confederate troops in the neighborhood. А picket line was established near her residence, her husband being in the army, and her children all young, she found herself helpless. Not desiring to be subjected to the insults of the common soldiers doing picket duty, and committing all sorts of acts of devastation and robbery, she put a few of her household effects in some cane wagons borrowed from the neighborIng plantations and carried her family into the parish of Livingston on the Tickfaw river, where she was accustomed, with her husband, to spend the summer in the pine woods. She remained there during the whole of the war, suffering for food, and frequently all of the necessaries of life. She struggled hard to maintain her family in the absence of her husband. At her home she nursed and cared for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, many of whom afterward became permanent in the State, and some of whom have been laid to rest.
After the war and upon the return of her husband from the army, they returned to Baton Rouge and found their former beautiful home in ashes. Being at that time somewhat delicate, the task presented to her was like that presented to many southern women, an apparently insurmountable one. Through all of it she struggled to educate her children, and deprived her self frequently of many comforts in order to see that they obtained an education.
Just after the terrors of reconstruction, her husband, the Hon. E. W. Robertson, was elected to Congress. He served in the 45th, 46th and 47th Congresses. She was always at his side, assisting him very materially in the capacity of his private secretary. At that time Congress had no clerks. She also did some literary work as a regular correspondent of some or the leading papers of the country.
In 1839, while on her way to visit her daughter in North Louisiana, she was blown up on the steamboat Corona, just below Port Hudson. In the disaster in which many lost their lives, she was seriously injured and went to the bottom with the boat. Having on a life preserver, and becoming released by the breaking of the timber, which pinned her down, she floated to the top and was rescued by a yall from a passing boat. From this shock it took her many years to recover.
Having passed the allotted three score years and ten, and weary with life's burdens, full of its honors, and having enjoyed the full meed of its pleasures, after a period of long and anxious suffering, which she endured with the fortitude and patience of the Christian mother she was, she peacefully slept, passing from the trials and troubles of this lite to that hope which was her consolation, through all the years of her life, to the home prepared for the pure in heart. With her last expiring breath, after having bidden farewell to those she loved, she whispered the words of the Master whom she loved so well.
Yesterday this community was called upon to pay its last tribute of respect to a sainted woman whose life and labors had been interwoven with history through years or prosperity as well as adversity. Mrs. Edward White Robertson, born Mary Jane Pope, was one of those lovable characters whose life and labors have left their imprint upon the history of this state and Nation. her husband, the late distinguished citizen of Baton Rouge, Hon. E. W. Robertson, familiarly known as Col Ed. Robertson, was often honored, and in return did honor to his native parish and State. She was in the true sense of the word his helpmate and companion, sharing his honors; enduring with him the hardships and sufferings which the cruel war imposed, and finally rounding a life rich in all that goes to ennoble her sex and to make Southern womanhood honored and blessed wherever known.
Mrs. Robertson was born at Rosedown plantation the parish of West Feliciana, on September 25, 1829. Her father was Dr. Nathaniel Pope, one of the early pioneers of Louisiana, who immigrated from Kentucky in the early part of the last century. Her mother was Martha Johnson, daughter of Isaac Johnson, who was also one of the early pioneers of Louisiana Territory. On the 15th day of April, 1847, she was married to Edward White Robertson, from which union there were born eleven children of whom five survive, namely, Samuel M. Robertson, M. P. Robertson. F. C. Robertson, Mrs. J. M. Sherrouse and Miss Lulu E. Robertson.
Among her children who died after Maturity were Mrs, C. J. Barrow, wife of Mr. C. J. Barrow of Baton Rouge, who left a large family of children, and Mrs. E. S. Robertson, wife or Mr. E. S. Robertson of Catahoula Parish, who also left a large family of children.
When hostilities broke out during the war, her family was in affluent circumstances. Hen. husband the Hon. R. W. Robertson at once enlisted in the Confederate army and served at Vicksburg with his regiment the 27th Louisiana. Mrs. Robertson was intensely southern in sentiment, and lent her aid and sympathy in every way towards assisting in equipping confederate soldiers. She was a member of the sewing societies, and helped also to make cartridges and prepare lint to be used in dressing the wounds of the soldiers. In 1862, when Farragut's fleet passed New Orleans she was living in a comfortable and beautiful home just erected near the corporate limits of Baton Rouge. When the fleet reached Baton Rouge in 1862 it bombarded the town and took possession of it, there being at that time no Confederate troops in the neighborhood. А picket line was established near her residence, her husband being in the army, and her children all young, she found herself helpless. Not desiring to be subjected to the insults of the common soldiers doing picket duty, and committing all sorts of acts of devastation and robbery, she put a few of her household effects in some cane wagons borrowed from the neighborIng plantations and carried her family into the parish of Livingston on the Tickfaw river, where she was accustomed, with her husband, to spend the summer in the pine woods. She remained there during the whole of the war, suffering for food, and frequently all of the necessaries of life. She struggled hard to maintain her family in the absence of her husband. At her home she nursed and cared for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, many of whom afterward became permanent in the State, and some of whom have been laid to rest.
After the war and upon the return of her husband from the army, they returned to Baton Rouge and found their former beautiful home in ashes. Being at that time somewhat delicate, the task presented to her was like that presented to many southern women, an apparently insurmountable one. Through all of it she struggled to educate her children, and deprived her self frequently of many comforts in order to see that they obtained an education.
Just after the terrors of reconstruction, her husband, the Hon. E. W. Robertson, was elected to Congress. He served in the 45th, 46th and 47th Congresses. She was always at his side, assisting him very materially in the capacity of his private secretary. At that time Congress had no clerks. She also did some literary work as a regular correspondent of some or the leading papers of the country.
In 1839, while on her way to visit her daughter in North Louisiana, she was blown up on the steamboat Corona, just below Port Hudson. In the disaster in which many lost their lives, she was seriously injured and went to the bottom with the boat. Having on a life preserver, and becoming released by the breaking of the timber, which pinned her down, she floated to the top and was rescued by a yall from a passing boat. From this shock it took her many years to recover.
Having passed the allotted three score years and ten, and weary with life's burdens, full of its honors, and having enjoyed the full meed of its pleasures, after a period of long and anxious suffering, which she endured with the fortitude and patience of the Christian mother she was, she peacefully slept, passing from the trials and troubles of this lite to that hope which was her consolation, through all the years of her life, to the home prepared for the pure in heart. With her last expiring breath, after having bidden farewell to those she loved, she whispered the words of the Master whom she loved so well.
From the Daily Advocate, October 8, 1902, page 2.
Yesterday this community was called upon to pay its last tribute of respect to a sainted woman whose life and labors had been interwoven with history through years or prosperity as well as adversity. Mrs. Edward White Robertson, born Mary Jane Pope, was one of those lovable characters whose life and labors have left their imprint upon the history of this state and Nation. her husband, the late distinguished citizen of Baton Rouge, Hon. E. W. Robertson, familiarly known as Col Ed. Robertson, was often honored, and in return did honor to his native parish and State. She was in the true sense of the word his helpmate and companion, sharing his honors; enduring with him the hardships and sufferings which the cruel war imposed, and finally rounding a life rich in all that goes to ennoble her sex and to make Southern womanhood honored and blessed wherever known.
Mrs. Robertson was born at Rosedown plantation the parish of West Feliciana, on September 25, 1829. Her father was Dr. Nathaniel Pope, one of the early pioneers of Louisiana, who immigrated from Kentucky in the early part of the last century. Her mother was Martha Johnson, daughter of Isaac Johnson, who was also one of the early pioneers of Louisiana Territory. On the 15th day of April, 1847, she was married to Edward White Robertson, from which union there were born eleven children of whom five survive, namely, Samuel M. Robertson, M. P. Robertson. F. C. Robertson, Mrs. J. M. Sherrouse and Miss Lulu E. Robertson.
Among her children who died after Maturity were Mrs, C. J. Barrow, wife of Mr. C. J. Barrow of Baton Rouge, who left a large family of children, and Mrs. E. S. Robertson, wife or Mr. E. S. Robertson of Catahoula Parish, who also left a large family of children.
When hostilities broke out during the war, her family was in affluent circumstances. Hen. husband the Hon. R. W. Robertson at once enlisted in the Confederate army and served at Vicksburg with his regiment the 27th Louisiana. Mrs. Robertson was intensely southern in sentiment, and lent her aid and sympathy in every way towards assisting in equipping confederate soldiers. She was a member of the sewing societies, and helped also to make cartridges and prepare lint to be used in dressing the wounds of the soldiers. In 1862, when Farragut's fleet passed New Orleans she was living in a comfortable and beautiful home just erected near the corporate limits of Baton Rouge. When the fleet reached Baton Rouge in 1862 it bombarded the town and took possession of it, there being at that time no Confederate troops in the neighborhood. А picket line was established near her residence, her husband being in the army, and her children all young, she found herself helpless. Not desiring to be subjected to the insults of the common soldiers doing picket duty, and committing all sorts of acts of devastation and robbery, she put a few of her household effects in some cane wagons borrowed from the neighborIng plantations and carried her family into the parish of Livingston on the Tickfaw river, where she was accustomed, with her husband, to spend the summer in the pine woods. She remained there during the whole of the war, suffering for food, and frequently all of the necessaries of life. She struggled hard to maintain her family in the absence of her husband. At her home she nursed and cared for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, many of whom afterward became permanent in the State, and some of whom have been laid to rest.
After the war and upon the return of her husband from the army, they returned to Baton Rouge and found their former beautiful home in ashes. Being at that time somewhat delicate, the task presented to her was like that presented to many southern women, an apparently insurmountable one. Through all of it she struggled to educate her children, and deprived her self frequently of many comforts in order to see that they obtained an education.
Just after the terrors of reconstruction, her husband, the Hon. E. W. Robertson, was elected to Congress. He served in the 45th, 46th and 47th Congresses. She was always at his side, assisting him very materially in the capacity of his private secretary. At that time Congress had no clerks. She also did some literary work as a regular correspondent of some or the leading papers of the country.
In 1839, while on her way to visit her daughter in North Louisiana, she was blown up on the steamboat Corona, just below Port Hudson. In the disaster in which many lost their lives, she was seriously injured and went to the bottom with the boat. Having on a life preserver, and becoming released by the breaking of the timber, which pinned her down, she floated to the top and was rescued by a yall from a passing boat. From this shock it took her many years to recover.
Having passed the allotted three score years and ten, and weary with life's burdens, full of its honors, and having enjoyed the full meed of its pleasures, after a period of long and anxious suffering, which she endured with the fortitude and patience of the Christian mother she was, she peacefully slept, passing from the trials and troubles of this lite to that hope which was her consolation, through all the years of her life, to the home prepared for the pure in heart. With her last expiring breath, after having bidden farewell to those she loved, she whispered the words of the Master whom she loved so well.
Yesterday this community was called upon to pay its last tribute of respect to a sainted woman whose life and labors had been interwoven with history through years or prosperity as well as adversity. Mrs. Edward White Robertson, born Mary Jane Pope, was one of those lovable characters whose life and labors have left their imprint upon the history of this state and Nation. her husband, the late distinguished citizen of Baton Rouge, Hon. E. W. Robertson, familiarly known as Col Ed. Robertson, was often honored, and in return did honor to his native parish and State. She was in the true sense of the word his helpmate and companion, sharing his honors; enduring with him the hardships and sufferings which the cruel war imposed, and finally rounding a life rich in all that goes to ennoble her sex and to make Southern womanhood honored and blessed wherever known.
Mrs. Robertson was born at Rosedown plantation the parish of West Feliciana, on September 25, 1829. Her father was Dr. Nathaniel Pope, one of the early pioneers of Louisiana, who immigrated from Kentucky in the early part of the last century. Her mother was Martha Johnson, daughter of Isaac Johnson, who was also one of the early pioneers of Louisiana Territory. On the 15th day of April, 1847, she was married to Edward White Robertson, from which union there were born eleven children of whom five survive, namely, Samuel M. Robertson, M. P. Robertson. F. C. Robertson, Mrs. J. M. Sherrouse and Miss Lulu E. Robertson.
Among her children who died after Maturity were Mrs, C. J. Barrow, wife of Mr. C. J. Barrow of Baton Rouge, who left a large family of children, and Mrs. E. S. Robertson, wife or Mr. E. S. Robertson of Catahoula Parish, who also left a large family of children.
When hostilities broke out during the war, her family was in affluent circumstances. Hen. husband the Hon. R. W. Robertson at once enlisted in the Confederate army and served at Vicksburg with his regiment the 27th Louisiana. Mrs. Robertson was intensely southern in sentiment, and lent her aid and sympathy in every way towards assisting in equipping confederate soldiers. She was a member of the sewing societies, and helped also to make cartridges and prepare lint to be used in dressing the wounds of the soldiers. In 1862, when Farragut's fleet passed New Orleans she was living in a comfortable and beautiful home just erected near the corporate limits of Baton Rouge. When the fleet reached Baton Rouge in 1862 it bombarded the town and took possession of it, there being at that time no Confederate troops in the neighborhood. А picket line was established near her residence, her husband being in the army, and her children all young, she found herself helpless. Not desiring to be subjected to the insults of the common soldiers doing picket duty, and committing all sorts of acts of devastation and robbery, she put a few of her household effects in some cane wagons borrowed from the neighborIng plantations and carried her family into the parish of Livingston on the Tickfaw river, where she was accustomed, with her husband, to spend the summer in the pine woods. She remained there during the whole of the war, suffering for food, and frequently all of the necessaries of life. She struggled hard to maintain her family in the absence of her husband. At her home she nursed and cared for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, many of whom afterward became permanent in the State, and some of whom have been laid to rest.
After the war and upon the return of her husband from the army, they returned to Baton Rouge and found their former beautiful home in ashes. Being at that time somewhat delicate, the task presented to her was like that presented to many southern women, an apparently insurmountable one. Through all of it she struggled to educate her children, and deprived her self frequently of many comforts in order to see that they obtained an education.
Just after the terrors of reconstruction, her husband, the Hon. E. W. Robertson, was elected to Congress. He served in the 45th, 46th and 47th Congresses. She was always at his side, assisting him very materially in the capacity of his private secretary. At that time Congress had no clerks. She also did some literary work as a regular correspondent of some or the leading papers of the country.
In 1839, while on her way to visit her daughter in North Louisiana, she was blown up on the steamboat Corona, just below Port Hudson. In the disaster in which many lost their lives, she was seriously injured and went to the bottom with the boat. Having on a life preserver, and becoming released by the breaking of the timber, which pinned her down, she floated to the top and was rescued by a yall from a passing boat. From this shock it took her many years to recover.
Having passed the allotted three score years and ten, and weary with life's burdens, full of its honors, and having enjoyed the full meed of its pleasures, after a period of long and anxious suffering, which she endured with the fortitude and patience of the Christian mother she was, she peacefully slept, passing from the trials and troubles of this lite to that hope which was her consolation, through all the years of her life, to the home prepared for the pure in heart. With her last expiring breath, after having bidden farewell to those she loved, she whispered the words of the Master whom she loved so well.
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