FAMOUS SONG ROMANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1924, Page 3

FAMOUS SONG ROMANCE

SAN FRANCISCO. April 7

The prophecy of “Silver Threads Among the Gold" "as never fulfdle for the woman who inspired it. lor that woman. Mrs flat ret Dunks, has just I-cm buried ill the environ- <d New Vork. and a strange history is associated with this humble ladv. For her. at least, the long trail of unhappiness that so mysteriously followed the writing of the great love song is over, and all that now remains of the family are a son and daughter, who have long been at odds "itli each other over the royalties from their lather - ballad. Mrs Dunks was eight-two years .if age. and she died in red need circumstances in a Brooklyn rooming house. She Was buried ill New Fnion Field, after a simple service in the l.eflcrt's Place Chapel. fn 187-1, when Halt Pease Dunks, a young musician and singer, and his wife "were living happily together in New York city, he composed to her one of the tenth-rest love songs ol the ages, and everyone knows il as “solver Threads Among the Gold." The words were written by F.ben L. Rexlord. and Banks composed the well-known molimlv. mill il N now lirlirvrd that 1,10 course of Ids life would have been entirely different had he never composed

‘.\nvhow. flic M'l'i ~mo' and with it domestic unhappiness ulmiuating in Hanks and In* "He l’-'H-

’"n, 1003 an old man was found dead in a rooming house in Phdadclp io. His landlady found him kneeling •> tne side of his hod. where denth ). 1 overtake., him. He had a copy Solver Threads Among the Gold tight > grasped in his hand, and on > " iis ’.l , - -It's hard to grow old alone. T.at ‘was how Hanks died, and hi widow died in eircumsvenees aim.parallel.