Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-26
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4 Strange but True .Storg.-A great many

a Strange but True Storg.-A great many
strange things huppen, and entirely escape pub
lie attention, which, if male knp,vn, would in-
dGcc more than passing remark. For long
time we have hard nothing stranger or trucr
than the story We about to relate. Wien
ThomuS Galloway was twenty -four ears Of age
he married u widow lady of about the same age
in village away down in the State OF Vermuur
This lady hal dangntyr, May, by her ii t
husband, VINO, at the time of her second "a q !
liage, Was two Years Ot .gc. just n; yea
alter Galloway : marriagc, hlS Wife died. Litll
Mary sent To hive wItua fuily oil tie name
OF P.unkett, Ia mrighbuling village, auu Gallo
way iclI upon whaling or s,'uIe VllI,r cX.cdi-
ton. lie crt,ised theMide wo'ld aud tins wide
sra> over, wandering FROM place To place. aid
finally settled III Dearborn county, Inuiaru,
twenty years having elapsed since the death Ol
his wife. He afterwards thought of visiting his
OLD Vermont home but he had lea from good
report that his only brother, John, lad LETT II Q
place suUn aiteI lie had taken Ills Own deI,ul I.
tuIe, aud that little Mary had grown up To
wOma. hood, iuarIicd aud euigrulrd lie could
not ascertain where. IIaviug,n other lies or
affections to draw him to the place, lac scarcrl,
ever gave 1t passing Thought
Shortly after settling his new Indiana hom,
he became acquainted with ynnmg willow, aud
Notwithstanding the disparity i their ages
married her. Some three weeks after this mar.
riagc, lie discovered BY his witc's account Of her
early life, that she was no other than his own
step child, Mary. She had married five years
before, aud her husband, June, Ltchlan, met
with violent death in u clearing two years at
forwards. About three years after Galluway's
second marriage, he happened one day to be i'll
LawTenceburgh, on the Ohio river, six miles
from his residence, when man by the name OF
Galloway was drowned of a steamer ut tn.
wharf The body was recovered in Galloway
preSemre, and from the appearance of the fra
lures aud the CORES UmtIimg name, he began to
entertain vague idea that it might he his Oull
brother, john. information gained FROM the
Captain of the boat, strengthened the susriciun
lie had formed aud ceIt,iiing that the unto
tuuatc uran had family in this vicinity, and ut
the time vi his death was OIL his way to the west
to enter land, Galloway resolved to return with
the Captain and timd out tile tut :. He did so aud
found his suspicious correct. His brother han
left tract of land large family of children,
for tue most part gl,l>, aud vile i'll ill health.
After consulting with his deceased brother's
wifi, lac c0Lclnle To take charge of the farm
Accordingly he went back tn Indiana, sold his
effects There, and IN company with Ills young
wife, returned aud has been living @itnin SIX
miles IF his city Cor "a length of time, now go
ing On ten Years. Ibis sror! is literally tue
with the exception of tn; natmes Of tue prIn, :
pal characters which We are rbiiden to use
Verify, truth is stranger than fiction.