Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
From the Detroit Free Press, Nov. 2l. A Brother and Sister Marry, not
 Knowing their Relationship.

Knowing their Relationship.
 There passed through through this city yesterday en route to Chicago, a lady whose history is one of the most remarkable ever brought to public mo- tice. It has been well said that truth is stranger than fiction, and the details of this Iady's history abundantly verify the adage. For reasons for which all will see the propricty of, we withhold her name, merely relating the facts as they were communicated to our repor- ter by one who had heard her s'strangc, true story" from her own lips.
 In 1858 her parents emigrated to this country from England, leaving behind them an only son some ten years of age, who had engaged as cabin boy on merchant vessel in the East India trade. They landed in New York, when, few months later, the subject of this sketch was born. While she was yet helpless infant her parents died, and she was sent to the foundling home, where she remained some time, when she was finally adopted by lady, who then resided ill Elmira, 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 mechanic, and set out for the great west. After travelling in various states they finally settled in Missouri, where they continued prosperous and happy until the storm of war burst up- on the country. Then her husband, in common with the thousands of his misguided countrymen, enlisted in the service of the rebellion, and was assign ed 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 that portion of the country in which she resided, and after her husbands death she removeed to St. Louis, where she thought to maintain herself by sewing.
 In 1853 she again married, and her husband embarking in business in St. Louis. This last marriage was thor oughly happy one, and in the course of time two children were born unto them. The husband gradually exten- ded his business operations, so in travel ing about the country, and during one of his business tours he visited Chicago, where he became acquainted with a lady and gentlman, who, by fortunate 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 sur prise he should give his wife, the hus- band at once concluded his business with the intention of returning to St. Louis and bringing her to Chicago for the purpose of reuniting her with her friends, without having first prepared either party for such an event.
 On the night before his contemplated departure for home, while conversing with Mir. and Mrs.-, it happened that he was led into recital of his ad- ventures 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 the East India. Mortified beyond expression, the wretched man fled from the house, and from that honr 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 hand 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 there she learned the address of her foster parents, with whom she at once communicated, giving them full details of her experience since she had first bade them farewell, upon setting out for her western home. Their answer to her letter contained a state ment of the terrible discovery of the identity of her husband and brother, together with an aflectionate invitation to come to them with her children and share their home.
 Heart broken, and nearly crazed by tho strange denoumcnt of her happy married life, the wretched woman hastened to accept the offer, and this morning will doubtless see her reunit-
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