The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-10-22
A SAD STORY.
A Marriage In n Shadow OF Death.
From the Rock Island Union, oct. 2.

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From the Rock Island Union. oct. 2.
In the Daily Union of September rs APP
peared the following notice:
MAnR1ED-At Pennington, near Salt Lake
City, Utah, on Tuesday, Sept. IA, Mr.. II. O..
Morris and Miss Mary @. Lequatt, both of
Rock Island county.
The letter that brought the announce
ment- from a friend of the parties-gave
us permission to tell the story of the love
that animated these two young people-a
love that had been born while yet the fu-
ture of both was bright with hope; q love
that had been strengthened by sickness; a
love that eliminated in a marriage at the
portals of death. But n fear of distressing
the parties kept us silent at the time. Now
that n greater distress than any we could
inflict has come upon the young bride and
the brave soldiers kindred, we may allude
to what we then kept silent ON. Hope and
fear are alike over-it can do no harm.
Among the many young men who enlist
ed from Rock Island county TO defend their
country during the war was Thos. G. Morris,
son of VIM Morris, of Ellington. lie
joined the Forty-ffth Regiment, and in
time became q lieutenant. When he left
the service and came home he had con-
tracted an affection of the lungs, which he
thought little of, but still e%ndeavored to
have cured. lie won the affections and be-
came the accepted lover of Miss Lequatt
IN a few months after his return, and only
awaited q restoration of his health to marry
her. But month after month passed
nearly three years were gone before Morris
began to realize that ho could not be cured
Mt home, and then, acting under advice, he
started for the West to zee what a change
of climate would do. He began his Jour
ney about the LIST of July last, and in due
time arrived mt Salt Lake City. After vainly
seeking health in the pure air Of the noun
tains, he found himself sinking, and ap-
prisod his friends that his case was hope
less.
About tho LIST of September no found the
fell disease was making such rapid strides
that if he would see his betrothed alive he
had no time to lose. He telographed TO
her of his condition, and with n woman's
singleness of devotion she left her homo
and ven TO him. She arrived at Farming
ton, n village between the Pacific Railroad
and Salt Lake City, where Morris was stop.
ping, on the morning of September II, and
ON the evening Of the same day the two
were married.
A week or ton days aiterward Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris began the journey homeward,
all hopes OF the mir of Utah beng beneficial
TO the invalid having been abandoned. The
journey was made by easy stages, frequent
stoppages being made to recruit Lieutonant
Morris strength, which was failing rapidly.
On reaching Grand Junction, near Dcs
Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, the 18th, he
was much exhausted, and on being remov-
ed from ono car TO another quietly breathed
his last. Kind strangers procured a coffin
for the remains, and the stricken widow
proceeded IN her homewOrd journey with
her dead. On tho 30th, just twenty-one
days after she left il n maid, she arrived at
Ellington n widow. Life is made up of sad
stories, but there are few more sad than
Tho