Denver News,
January 24, 1897: Mrs. Helen M. Dorsey, the wife of ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, died at
her home in Denver last Wednesday morning. Yesterday she was buried. Old friends of the
absent husband and young friends of the sorrowing son gathered in sympathy and tenderness
to put all that was left to the earth of this once noted and notable woman into the
ground--clay the clay--away forever and forever away from the freshening breath of flowers
which she loved--apple blossoms and lilacs and golden daffodils; forever and forever away
from the springtime song of birds--away forever from the sight of the grand old mountains
on which she loved to gaze, for she was beautiful, and she loved all forms of beauty. She
was called, in years gone by, the most beautiful woman in America. She was lionized by the
press and in the noblest assemblages of the land, where beauty gathers to smile on fame,
in the presidents drawing room, the grand saloon of the White House, during the last two
years of General Grant’s and the whole of the Hayes’ administration, at all the
great social functions in the capital of the nation, famous men crowded about her and
proud dames stood upon chairs to catch a glimpse of her. |