The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-03-01
A sad History

We yesterday met young and inter.
esilng girl at the house OF an acquaintance,
who told us a tale OF wrong alb suffering
that would furnish material for a good
sized novel.
Oae year ago this young lady left her
home in Pennsylvania home where all
the Injuries of lille we're at her command
Her parents we're indulgent, aud she, an
only child, was loved by them with all the
fon6ness OF true parental affection. No
wish OF hers remained uogrstifed, for she
was the idol of those parents, and the light
of the home made desolate by an act which
will forever cast it's shadow on her heart
10 February, 1864, she became &C.
quainted with Mormon preacher, who
painted to her in glowing terms the glaries
of Utah and the Mormon religion He told
her Of the beautiful valleys OF Utah forti
fed on all sides by giant mountains, whose
peaks, FURNISHED by eternal SHOWS, looked
down upon the valleys Of perpetual green,
peopled by Gods own chosen kindred.
who were free as the mountain torrents
that leaps the rocks of lofty Timpanagos
range. He told her OF the content and
peace reigning among the saints, and as
sured her that the Mormons we're God 9
own peculiar people, and so worked upon
her imagination that she finally consented
to leave friends, family, ED all the endear-
ments of home. and go With him to the
Valley of the Saints.
Arriving at Chicago. he forced her to
marry him, the ceremony being performed
BY mock priest. without record or
license. On last April she left Wyoming.
Nebraska, with Mormon train, for the
land Of promise, and finally arrived in the
city of the Saints. Here she found that
her husband had four other wives. Who
regarded her with no tender emotions, bat
heaped abuse and contumely upon her
head.
After a few months her liege lord told
her he bad concluded to set her to apoth-
er, who had taken great fancy to her:
that his other wives we're jealous, aud de.
clared that his last wife should live with
him no longer.
She declared she would die before she
would thus be put away and forced to live AZ
the wife of man with whom she had no
acquaintance, and had seen but once in
her life. Her husband told her it was
Brigham's order, and she must do so or
lose her life. Determined not to be thus
sacrificed she started to run away with the
Of making her way TO Camp
Breckenridge, in Cedar Valley, then gar.
risoned by United States troops, and claim
protection there. She started on foot and |
after travelling about ten miles, was caught |
ana brought back, placed in dungeon.
or rather cellar, and was thus kent for
month, with just enough food to sustain
life. The man whom che refused tn Iiv.
with frequently visited her, and besou CHI
nefsto change her resolution in order to
ave her lie.
Through force Of circumstances aha Al
i last yielded, and was duly installed in
his family, - the sixth wife. Here she
ound, Is befQke, the jealousenesa md
luaITels arising we're intolerable, and she
gain determined to escape or die ia the
'ttempt. This time she sncoeeded s
eachiDg the headquarters Of G eueral Con.
Ter. to whom che told her tals Of aulfar
ng. The General sent her through ID - i
,tates with govsfnmsnt train bound IA
70. ksasasy, which place she reached i
arly last ussk.
She lssves this city tonight, ! repent
nt. sorrc~ful child fos her 6ens Il fea.. |
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