New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-06
ROMANCE OUTDONE.
A Marriage that Beats Anything in the
Novels.

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| Novels.
| From the Knoxville (flinois) Republican
| Williamson - Williamson = Married, in
Knoxville, July Is, 1871, by Rev. d. G..
Bradford, at the old Gardner homestead,
M. Phiiander Williamson, of Stockton, Cali
fornia, and Mrs. Almena Williamson, of
Knoxville, Illinois.
AS considerable interest has been excited
In our community from the supposed ro-
mantle elements Of the foregoing marriage,
we have taken pains TO obtain from reliable
source an authentic history of the individ-
uals concerned. The following are the
| facts: 81.
| The bride and bridegroom above were
united In marriage in early life in Warren,
Herkimer county, New York, at the house
OF the brides parents, Mr.. Richard and Mrs.
Mary Gardner, then citizens of that place.
by the same ceremony sister, now Mrs.
Timothy Moshier, of Galesburg, was mar
ried to Mr.. Abel Gardner, who, though of
! the same name, was in no way blood re-
lation. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson soon after
that marriage removed from New York to
the State of Michigan, locating near what
is now the city of Albion. Michigan was
then new, it being over thirty years ago,
and they experienced all the hardships of
frontier life amid half-civilized whites and
savages. Mrs. Williamson being very
young-only about twenty years of age
naturally modest, timid and retiring.
brought up in abundance, amid friends and
many acquaintance, soon grew disconso-
late at her fate, and sighed with many tears
for her old associates and happier sur
roundlngs. So oppressed and overwhelmed
was she that, while fond of her husband
and her married life, she became deeply
anxious, which grew almost, if not quite,
to be passion TO see her beloved neither.
1t so happened that after being thus cir
cumstanced in Michigan for the space of
about two years, her parents removed from
Herkimer county, New York, to Knoxville,
Illinois. On their way they visited their
daughter, then in the wilds of what is now
7 the noble State of Michigan. No meeting of
parents and child could ever have been
more affecting and joyous. The separation
however, was at hand, and in the conflict
between parental love and that of her hus-
band, the former prevailed, and taking her
only child daughter, Mrs. Williamson ac-
companied her parents to Knoxville, with
whom she resided until their decease. Her
child, Marcela, was reared and educated
here, and died in the blush of womanhood.
The separation, though mutual, always ex-
ercised the mind of Mrs. Williamson, and
for thirty years, though no good reason ex-
lsted for parting husband and wife, they
walked widely divergent paths. Suisse
quent to their separation, Mr.. Williamson
married an eSt1ma0le lady, moved to Cali
fornia, became citizen of Stockton, twenty
years ago, where he now owns property Of
considerable value. By his second wife he
had three or four children.
The second wife having died some years
since, and Mr. Williamson being situated
so as to greatly need wife, visited his old
friends in New York and Michigan, and
made his way here to be reunited, from
choice and convictions of duty, with her
whom he had chosen in his youth. The
meeting was peculiar and romantic. Mrs.
Williamson, on the day he called on her.
did not know her early spouse, so great had
been the work of time. Suffice to say the
past was revived with its pleasant and
painful memories, the re-marriage agreed
upon, the happy pair came to the old home
stead, were reunited in wedding. standing
in the parlor where Mrs Moshier, the brides |
youngest sister, married her present hus-
band, and who was in the beginning mar
ried by the same ceremony with her sister. |
Last evening they passed through this city
on their way to their home in California. |
May their declining years be the happiest of |
their lives, and may they have cause to |
always bless the hour they were reunited.