Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-13
A REMARKABLE STORY.
WIDOW MARRIED TO HER OWN BROTHER,
WHOM SHE HAD NEVER SEEN IN HIS YOUTH.

WHOM SHE HAD NEVER SEEN IN HIS YOUTH.
lFrom the Detroit (NTich) Free Press. Nov. ISL
There passed through this city yesterday,
en- route to Chicago, lady whose history is
one of the most remarkable ever brought to
public notice. For reasons which all will
see the propriety of, we withhold her name,
merely relating to the facts as they were
communicated to our reporter by one who
had heard the strange true story" from
her own lips. In 1888 her parents emigra-
ted to this country from England, leaving
behind them an only son some ten years of
age, who had engaged as q cabin-boy ON q
merchant vessel in the East India trade
they landed in New York, where, few
months later, the subject of this sketch was
born. While she was yet a helpless infant,
both her parents died, and she was sent to
the Founding Home, where she remained
some time, when she was finally adopted
by lady and gentleman who then resided
in Elmira, n, Y OF course she knew no.
thing of her sailor brother, and she grew up
in belief that she was really the child of her
foster parents. At the age OF eighteen she
married an industrious young mechanic,
and set out for the West. After travelling
in various States, the finally settled in Mis-
souri,, where they continued prosperous and
happy until the storm of war burst upon
the country. Then her husband, in COM
mon with'the thousands of his countrymen,
enlisted in the service of the rebellion, and
was assigned to General 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 Ia
DIV of whom we write had lost all trace of
her foster parents. owing to the distracted
condition of that part Of the country in
which she resided, and after her husbands
death she removed to ST. Louis, where she
sought to maintain herself by sewing. In
1868, she again married, and her husband
embarked in business in st Louis. This
last marriage was thoroughly happy one,
and in the course of time two children were
born unto them. The husband gradually
extended his business operations, so that
much of his time was necessarily spent IN
travelling about the country and during
one of his business tours he visited Cbica-
90, where he became acquainted with Ia
dy and gentleman who, by fortunate
chain of circumstances, he ascertained were
the long lost foster parents of his wife. De-
lighted at the discovery he had made, no
doubt, with anticipations of the joyful sur
prise he should give his wife, the husband
at once concluded his business with the in
tention of returning to st. Louis, and
bringing her to Chicago for the purpose OF
reuniting her with her friends, without hav-
ing first prepared either party for such an
event. On the night of his contemplated
departure for home, while conversing with
Mr. and Mrs., it happened that he
was led into n recital of his adventures
about the world, and before his 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 Horrifed beyound
the wretched 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 COM
paratively 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
started for Elmira, her early home. Upon
her arrival here she learned the address OF
her foster parents, with whom she at once
communicated, giving them full details OF
her experience since she first bade them
farewell, upon setting out for her western
home. Their answer to her letter contain
ed statement of the terrible discovery Of
the identity of her husband and brother,
together with an affectioRate invitation to
come to them with her children and share
their home. Heart-broken and nearly
crazed bp the strange denOuennent of her
happy married life, the wretched woman
fastened to accept the offer, and this morn
ing will doubtless see her reunited to her
aorliacA and dearest friend