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A SKETCH OF MRS. W. L. CABELL, OF FORT

SMITH.

By Her Husband, Lieutenant-General W. L. Cabell
Rev. J. M. Lucey:

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your truly kind

letter. It makes me feel, in my old age, that my sainted wife

and myself still have friends who remember them in their
young days, and I will try and comply with your request.

Mrs. Harriette Amanda Cabell was Miss Harriette Amanda

Rector, daughter of Major Elias and Catherine Rector, of Fort
Smith, Arkansas. Col. Rector was IT. S. Indian agent and
subsequently IT. S. Marshall. She was born the 3rd of June,
1837, and when a babe was given the name of "Shingo" by the
Old Head Chief of the Osage Indians, Claremore. She was
always called by that name until the day of her death. She was
educated early at her old home school and graduated at the
Sacred Heart Academy, at St. Louis, Mo. She was a great
favorite with her classmates as well as with all who knew
her, being noted for her great wit, and sweet, pretty manners.

She was reigning belle of Arkansas and had many admirers

before her marriage to Lieutenant William L. Cabell, of the
7th Regiment United States Infantry, July 22, 1856. Soon
after their marriage, Lieutenant Cabell carried his bride to
Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, and liv-
ed at different forts on the frontier until the war between the
States, when she went to Virginia, in April 1861, with her hus-
band.

She blessed her husband with seven children, two dying as
infants. Four sons and one daughter grew to womanhood and
manhood. Three sons and one daughter now live to bless the
memory of their sainted mother.

Mrs. Shingo Cabell was one of the sweetest and most intel-

lectual women of the South. She was a woman of great common

sense and of remarkable firmness of character, with a heart full
of love and affection. She was above all things a true Southern
woman, in fact one of the queens of the South, and so proud of