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and Mrs. Nicholas Augustus Berthoud, of St. Louis. 



Not long after John W. Audubon's death, his fam- 

 ily disposed of their house on what had been the "Min- 

 nie's Land" estate, and lived successively at Harlem, 

 New Haven, Connecticut, and Salem, New York, where 

 Mrs. John W. Audubon died, and where her daughter, 

 Maria Rebecca, the biographer of her father and grand- 

 father, with a sister, still resides. Victor Audubon's 

 family, with some of their kinsfolk, remained at the 

 Hudson River place, which was included in the section 

 known as "Audubon Park," until May, 1878, when they 

 took a house in New York, where Mrs. Victor Audubon 

 died in 1882. 



A brother of Mrs. Victor Audubon, Mr. H. C. Mal- 

 lory, in writing to a friend in Buffalo from "Audubon 

 Park, August 31, 1874," said that it was a source of deep 

 regret to Mrs. John James Audubon that her last years 

 were not passed with them, under the shadow of her 

 old home on the Hudson; and he continued: "She was 

 a kind and good friend, very intelligent, and much be- 

 loved here; I remember her telling a young lady, who 

 asked her if she had read some fashionable novel, that 

 she had no time; 'at my age,' said she, 'I must make 

 the most of my time.' As she was a wide reader, it was 

 a great trial when, in age, her eyesight completely failed 

 her. The minister who pronounced her eulogy 17 said: 



Many of you can recall that aged form and benignant coun- 

 tenance, as she moved along these streets upon errands of use- 

 fulness and benevolence, with benedictions on her tongue, and 

 smiles that were a blessing to all who met her. 



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"Charles Augustus Stoddard; for his memorial sermon, see Bibliog- 

 raphy, No. 178. In the absence of the rector of the Church of the Inter- 

 cession, the pastor of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church was 

 called to officiate at *he funeral of Mrs. J. J. Audubon, June 22, 1874. 



