Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-10-04
Perseverance Rewarded.
We clip the following from the Blu

yrus (Ohio) Jourmalof late date;
We picked mp Pitt>burg paper the
other day, aud saw therein the mar
rage of a couple that formerly resi- led
il this place. There are many marrl
ages in other towns Of pe"ple who
have once lived in Bucyru~, and we
! do not pretend to record them ut al,
! but in this instance there Is an incident
of too uncommon Il nature to be passed
over 1t is as follows:
Twelve years ago the bri'le WIS a
young lady Of twenty, the dan:5hter Of
Il wealthy merchant III Washington,
Pa. In her father, employ WAS Il mau
named B, who the, young lady be-
witchingly beautiful, rs in duty bound,
fell desperately i'll love. She reci prora
ted the attachment, and they wesc be-
trothed. Unfortunately, the young
lady's father entered his protest against
this unpleasant arrangement, and ac
cordinyIy the young people put of the
happy day indefinitely, About a year
after she received Il most tempting pr"-
posal, which urged by her father, she
ACCEPTED, and to the eternal despair ot'
poor Robhert, was married. But alas
for the happy bridegroom! Scarcely
three months had elapsed when kick
from a vicious horse killed him. Rob
bert conSolled the widow, and deter
mined 1T the expiration Of Il year or 50
to marry her. He had too much re-
Spect for her to press his suit immrdi-
ateiy and did not for fifteen months,
when he proposed. 10 his horror she
Informed him that she was already en-
gagged, and that IN three months more
her second marriage WAS To be cup,sun-
mated.
Two y-ars passed. II the mrAn-
time the widow and her husband moved
to Syracuse, and Robbert, POSSESSED by
Il strange huIlEciuation, followed them
| there. That season the ch plera >N>pt
that city, and among its victims was
the second husband. Robert allowed
Il year to pass, aud was on the point OF
urging his claims, when he Received an
invitation to her welding. She WAS
to be married to her late huSbun!'S
partner. Robbert demonstrated. The
lady assured him her present step was
not one Of love, but purely OF uece>>i-
| ty. The partnership affairs of her late
! lamented husband were IN >uch Il state
that settlement was impoS>lbie, ani to
save immense losses she had deter
mined upon marrying the Surviving
partner. She assured him also that
| her sentiments toward hlm were un-
changed, and that should she ever be-
come widow again, she would give him
the preference.
She was married, and in a short
time removed with her husband to De
troit, Michigan. But fatality seemed
to pursue her. Herself and husband
were on board a steemer that WAS
wrecked leal Buffalo, some years Sl:.ce.
! The husband perlsheu. ana She escaped
only through the >nperhumai: eXcrllon>
OF 4 friend who happrned To ne on
board. This trrui vas young, ulltnlr-
rleI and his gaIIantry INSPIRED such
sentiments In the breast of The widow,
that she married him before RDDbert
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