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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13891, 23 December 1913, Page 2

it is not generally known that Flora;1 Macdonald, tho of Charles Stuart's escape !trom Scotland, lived1' for a number of years in North Carolina. That such "was the case is brought to lischt in William Powers's "Prince Charlie, the Last Hope of the Stuarts." Her husband, Allan Maedonald, became brigadier of the loyalist troops, was taken prisoner and finally returned with his-family to Scotland. Though a iigur©' in the rebellion which- all but unseated the houso of Hanover, Flora Maodonaid gave ftVo sons to the British service; three to the army and two (who perished at zecfi to tho navy. Her two daughters m;u'riod officers. Flora died in 1790 and was buried in the little churchyard of Knmuir. Her shroud was tho sheets in which Prince Charlie" had slept in 1746. No loyalty could have, been more disinterested than hers; there was nothing to show that_ after their parting the prince ever so much as remembered her name.