Chicago Tribune article - October 18, 1884 issue
PASSING AWAY.
The Wife of the Late Judge Buckner S. Morris Dangerously Ill.
A special dispatch from Louisville published in yesterday's TRIBUNE stated that Mrs. Morris, wife of the late Judge Buckner S. Morris of Chicago, was lying almost at the point of death at the Blackburn sanitarium in Louisville.
Twenty years ago, when the public pulse still throbbed with the fever of war, Mrs. Morris was a noted woman in Chicago. Her arrest at the time and subsequent banishment on charges of treason made her name well known all over the country. Mrs. Morris is a daughter of "Uncle Ned" Blackburn of Kentucky, who is recollected in sporting circles as a breeder of fast horses. She is a sister of the Blackburns of the South - ex-Gov. Luke Blackburn, Joseph Blackburn, the politician; Churchill Blackburn, a wealthy Alabama cotton-planter; and Dr. Henry Blackburn of Mississippi. Mrs. Morris was a fitting member of this family. That her sympathies were with the South was but the result of her early training and surroundings; her arrest and just conviction were but the most inevitable outcome of her natural sympathy with Confederate plots in her philanthropic work among the Confederate soliders held at Camp Douglas.
