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His wife. She died under rather suspicious circumstances from burns while smoking in the house, smoking was not considered a respectable habit for women at the time. He also dodged, as far as possible, politics, but one Christmas song he did write- I heard the Bells on Christmas Day- admittedly a somewhat cynical one, was written during the Civil War.

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