Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-19
A SAD STORY.
A MARRIAGE In tho SHADOW Of Death.
{ from the Rock Island Union, October 9
In the Daily Union of September 2otn

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Msrrfnre In the Shndow of Death.
from tho Rock Island Union, october 9
In the Daily Union of September 2otn
appeared the following notice:
81 HARMED.
At Pennington, near Salt Lake City, utan,
on Tuesday, September II, Mr.. I. g. Morris
and Miss Mary c. Lequats, both Oh H''A
Island County.
The letter that brought the announce
ment-fron a friend Of the parties.
a v us permission to tell the story Oh
the love that animated those two young
love that had been born while
vet the future Of both was bright WIZ
hope; a love that had been strengthened
by sickness; a love that eliminated IN
marriage at the very portals OF death.
But a fear of distressing the parties
kent u, silent at tue time. Now that q
greater distress than any we could in
aict has come upon the bride and brave
soldiers Kindred, we may allude 70
what We then kept silent on. hops
and fear are alike overt a 40 no
harm. ~! e5Ip
Among the many young mon who
enlisted from Rock Island County to
defend their country during the war
was Thomas @. Morris, son OF William
Morris, of Edgiugton. He Joined the
Forty.ffth Regiment, and in time be-
came a lieutenant. When he left the
service and came home, he had con-
tractsd ain affection Of the lungs, which
he thought but little of, but still en-
deayored to hare cured. He won the
affections and became the accepted
lover of Miss Loquatt in a few months
after his return, and only awaited q
return Of his health to marry her. But
month after month passed. and nearly
three yetrss were gone before Morris
began to realizS that he could not be
cured at home; and then, acting under
advice, be started for the West, to see
what q change of climate would do.
He began his journey about the lst Of
July last, and in due time arrived IN
Salt Lake City. After vainly seeking
health in the pure air Of the mountains,
he found himself sinking, and appriied
his friends that his case was hopeless.
About the lst of September he found
the fell disease making such rapid
strides that, If he would see his be-
trothed alive, he Lad ne time to lose.
He telegraphed to her of his condition,
and with o woman's singlsness Of devo-
ton she left her home and went to him.
She arrived at Pennington, q village be-
tween the Pacific Railroad and Salt
Lake City, where Morris was stopping,
on the morning Of September IA, and on
the evening of the same day the two
were married.
A week or ten days afterward, Mr..
and Mrs. Morris began sthe journey
homeward, all hopes Of the air of Utah
being b~ensfcial to the invalid having
been abandoned. The journey was
made by easy stages, frequent stop.
pages being made to recruit Lieutenant
Norris strength, which was failing
rapidly. On reaching Grand Junction,
. a Des Moinos, Iowa, on Wednesday,
the 2sth, he was much exhausted, and,
on being removed from one chr to an.
other, quietly breathed his last. Kind
strangers procured q coffin for the re.
mains, and the stricken widow proceed
ed on her homeward journey with her
dead. On the 30th, just twsnty-one
days after she left it q maid, she ar
rived at Edgington a widow. Life is
made up Of sad stories, but there are
few more sad than this.