While there, becomes severely ill from his long-suffering combination of Rheumatism, Gout and Bright's disease (Kidney)
In later life she was affected by rheumatic symptoms and spent frequent periods convalescing overseas.
Her doctors had suggested that she might find in the mineral waters some relief from the rheumatic condition that was progressively limiting her activities and causing her considerable distress.
While in Spain Mariana Victoria had had an attack of Rheumatism and was confined to a wheelchair for some time in August 1778.
Rheumatic and other inflammatory illnesses are treated at the spa.
His older brother Nevin became a farmer due to asthma and rheumatism, while George and Tom became military officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The property was last used as a private home in 1929, after which it was converted to a 'rheuma spa', a health centre for the treatment of people with rheumatism, by Mrs Florence Lindley, formerly headmistress of Lowther College, at the nearby Bodelwyddan Castle.