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Surnames: FLEECE, MOREAUX, LOSCH
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NADL 8 Jan 1894 p4 c6
Death in Harrison County, of Mrs. Theresa Fleece, Who Has a History
A Notable Woman
The Trusted Maid of Mad. Mireau
Wife of Marshal Moireaux
Of France
Theresa Fleece, wife of Henry Fleece, died at their home in Harrison county, on January
4, 1894. Mrs. Fleece was a highly educated and accomplished woman, and the history of her
life is an eventful one. She was the trusted maid of Mad. Moreaux, wife of the noted
Marshal Moreaux, of France, who was Grand Marshal under Napoleon I in the revolution of
1846, when Napoleon attempted to seize the French throne and failed.
This failure resulted in the exile of Marshal Moreaux, who came to America and settled at
St. Marks, Florida, twenty-eight miles south of Tallahassee, where he purchased a
plantation, built an elegant chateau, and decorated a plat of five acres with oranges,
magnolias, oleanders and other tropical plants and fruits, planting out, also, a large
orchard of English walnuts.
Mrs. Fleece lived with Marshal Moireaux’s family as Mad. Mireaux’s maid until the death
of the Marshal and his wife. She in the meantime had married Henry Fleece, who was a
tailor, and of the household of Marshal Moireau, and made all the garments worn by the
Marshal during his long residence in America, the Marshal dying in 1858. After Louis
Napoleon succeeded to the French throne and became Emperor he did not recall Marshal
Moireaux, but the Marshal and his wife visited France and were most kindly received by
Napoleon. Mad. Moireaux died in 1868.
After the death of Moreaux Henry Fleece and his wife came north, and desiring to again
return to Florida during the war of the rebellion they found it impossible to get through
the lines of the contending armies and went to Harrison county and purchased a farm, upon
which they have since resided. Mrs. Fleece is the sister of Prof. Losch, principal of the
Kentucky Institute for the Blind at Louisville.
She and her husband came north for the benefit of her health. She was left a landed
legacy in Florida by the will of Mad. Moreaux, and was always a favorite with this
distinguished lady and member of the French nobility.