His & Hearse Press<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/MondayMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MondayMourning</span></a>: Louise the Unfortunate </p><p>No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless. </p><p>Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HisAndHearsePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HisAndHearsePress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cemetery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cemetery</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Monument" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monument</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Memorial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gravestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gravestone</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Headstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Headstone</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ReconstructionEra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReconstructionEra</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Natchez" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Natchez</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Louise" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Louise</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LouiseTheUnfortunate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LouiseTheUnfortunate</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Epitaph" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Epitaph</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenOfTheNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenOfTheNight</span></a></p>