The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-31
A Brother and Sister Marry, Not
Knowing their Relation shiu.

Ihere passed sSrough this city yes
terday, en- route. to Chicago, lady,
whose history is one of the most re-
markableS ever brought to public
notice. 1t has been well said, that
truth is stranger than fiction, and
the details of this lady's history
abundantly verify the adage. For
reasons which all will see the propri-
ETY. of, we withhold her name, merely
relating the facts as they were COM
municated to our reporter by one who
had heard her strange, true story"
from her own lips.
Il !Soo, i.oz p.roatts sn;g.....sia, ..o
this country from England, leaving
behind them an only son. some ten
years Of age, who had engaged as
cabin boy on merchants vessel in the
East India trade. They landed in
New York, when, a few moths later,
the subject Of this sketch was born.
While she was yet helpless infant,
both her parents died, aud she was
sent to the Foundlings' Home, where
she remained some time, when she
was finally adopted by lady and
gentleman, who then resided in Ell
mira, New York. OF course, she
knew nothing of her sailor brother,
and she grew up in the belief that
she was really the child of her foster
parents. At the age of eighteen, she
married an industrious young me-
chanic, and set out for the great
West. After travelling in various
States, they finally settled in Mis-
souri,, where they continued pros
porous and happy until the storm of
war burst upon tho country. Then,
her husband, in common with the
thousands of his mis- guided country
men, enlisted in the service of tile
rebellion, and was assigned to Gen.
Prices army. He served faithfully
during the first eighteen months of
the war, but was finally killed in one
OF the Southwestern engagements.
From the breaking out of the war,
the lady of whom we write had lost
all trace of her foster parents, owing
to the disturbed condition of the
country in which she resided, and
after her husbands death, she re-
moved to st. Louis, where she sought
to maintain herself by sewing.
In 1863, she again married, and
her husband embarked in business in
st. Louis. The last marriage was
thoroughly happy one, and in the
course of time two children we're
born unto them. The. husband gra-
dually extended his business opera
tions, so that muck of his time was
necessarily spent in travelling about
the country, and during one of his
business tours lie visited Chicago.
where he became acquainted with a
lady and gentleman, who, by for
tunnte chain of circumstances, he
ascertained were the long lost foster
parents of his wife. Delighted at
the discovery he had made, and
pleased, no doubt, with anticipations
of the joyful surprise he should give
his wife, the husband at once CON
cluded his business, with the intention
Of returning to st. Louis and bring
ing her to Chicago for the purpose of
re-uniting her with her friends, with
out having first prepared either party
for such an event.
On the night before his contem-
plated departure for home, while
conversing with Mr.. and Mrs. -.
it happened that lie was led into q
recital of his adventures about the
world, and before the narrative was
finished, his listeners knew that their
adopted daughter had married her
own brother, who, before she was
born. had sailed for East India. Hor-
rified beyond expression, the wretch
ed man fled from the house, and from
that hour no tidings of him have
ever reached his friends.
This was in March last, and few
weeks later the wretched sister-wife
was rendered comparatively poor by
the destruction of large portion of
the property left in her hands by fire.
Although written to by her stricken
friends, their letters never reached
her, and few weeks since she start
ed for Elmira, her early home. Upon
her arrival there, she learned the ad-
dress of her foster parents, with
whom she at once communicated,
giving them full details Of her expe-
rience since she had first babe them
farewell, upon setting ont for her
Western home. Their answer to her
letter contained statement of the
terrible discovery of the identity of