Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-28
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were married. But the marriage
was an unhappy one. Mr.. Jones
|had large plantation in one of
the cotton States, and his business
interests required that he should
Ispend a great deal of his time
there, and this he is said to have
3done, leaving his wife at her faith
er's, where she preferred to stay,
in the enjoyment of that society
aud those comforts which were
not to be found on the cotton
plantations Of the South Thus
matters went on for several years,
when there came a divorce suit,
atthe instance OF the lady, though
upon what grounds our informant
never knew. The divorce was
granted, and Mrs. Jones resumed
her maiden name. Itwas believed
that neither husband nor wife
were much to blame in the mat.
jter--that in reality, they were
more sinned against than SHINING.
A year or two passed by aud
young Smith, who had never for.
gotten hislove forthe Tennesseean,
returned and renewed bis suit
his time with much success; for
there vyas no formidable opposition,
lit any at all, and he and Miss
Brown were married.
And then the war came on
Young Smith was among the first
to espouse the cause of the South
and Join the army for her defense
he became an officer in a cavalry
regiment, and continued in ac-
tive service until the close of the
struggle. He then returned to
his wife at Blank, where he soon
after resumed the practice OF his
profession. He returned to find
that his father-in.law was bank
rupt-that the war had involved
him in utter ruin. Very soon
Mr.. Browns magnificent home
was sold, and he removed to
Blank with his family--consist-
ing then of his wife and two sons
1.-The two young men who were
recently murdered in North Ala
bama. Soon after his removal
to Blank from his old home, FIVE
miles distant, Mr.. Brown died ,leav-
ing his wifa almost penniless.--
About the same time the two
boys removed to Alabama, and
Mrs. Brown was left alone with
Mrs. Smith.
They lived in an elegant two
story cottage in the suburbs of
Blank. Early one morning in
the summer of 1867, Mr.. Smith
was found lying at his front door
quite dead. The weather was
exceedingly warm at that time,
and it was supposed that he had
seated himself in the window Of
his room in the upper story, that
he had gone to sleep while seated
there, and had fallen to the ground,
breaking his neck.
Another period of two years
went the way of all the other
years of the life of this gay young
widow, still as beautiful as ever,
though saddened and subdued byl
the clouds which had swept across
her pathway. And then the
most singular event in this sin
gular story came to pass. Mr..
Jones, the FIRST husband, who
had never yet ceased to love the
woman from whom he had been
by a decree Of the law,
returned to Bland and proposed a
second marriage. The PROPOSE
ton was accepted and some time
last spring the marriage tookplace,
the divorced husband and wife
re-utteiipg with warmer hearts
and frmer faith those. vows
Of love and coustaney which once
before they had uttered, and ut
tered in vain. :.
Six orr ght months after this
came the murder of the lady's
two brothers, by unknown assas-