Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-16
ROMANCE OUTCOME.
/ A Marriage that Beats Anything in the
Novels
FROM the Knoxvile. In.l Republican.

Novels.
FROM the Knoxville, Ql) Republican.
Williamson Williamson Married,
in Konxville, July Is, 1871. by Rev. D.
G. Bradford, at the old Gardner Home
stead, Mr.. Phllander Williamson, of
Stockton, California, and Mrs. Almena
Williamson, of Knoxville, Illinois.
As considerable interest has been
excited in our community from the
supposed romantic elements of the
foregoing marriage, we have taken
pains to obtain from reliable source an
authentic history of the individuals
concerned. The following are the
facts
The bride and bridegroom above
were united in marriage In early life III
Warren, Herkimer county, New York,
at the house of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs Mary Gardner, then citi-
7ens Of that place. BY the same cere-
mony, q sister, now Mrs. Timothy Mo
shier, eli Galespurg was married to Mr..
Abel Gardner, who, though of the
same name was in no way a blood re-
lation. Mr.. and Mrs. Williamson soon
after their 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 sayages,
! Mrs. Williamson being very young
only about twenty years OF age-natur
aIlymodest, timid and retiring, brought
up in abundance, amid friends and
many acquaintance, soon grew discon-
ISOLATE at her fate, and sighed with ma
nv tears for her old associates and hap
/ overwhelmed was she that, while fond
Of her husband and her married life,
she became deeply anxious, which grew
almost, II not quite to passion, to see
her beloved mother,
Tt so happened that after being thus
circumstanced in Michigan for the
space of two years, her parents remov-
ed from Herkimer county, New York
to Knoxville, Illinois. On their way
they visited their daughter, then in the
wilds Of what is now the noble State o.
Michigan. No meeting OF parents anC
child could have been more affecting
and Joyous. The separation, however
was at hand, and in the conflict be
tween parental love and that of he
husband, the former prevailed, and tax
ing her only child, daughter, Mrs. W.
accompanied her parents to Knoxville
with whom she resided until their de
cease. Her child, Merceiia, was rear
ed and educated here, and died in the
blush of womanhood.
The separation, though mutual, al
ways exercised the mind of Mrs. W.
and for thirty years, though no goo(
reason existed for parting husband ant
wife, they walked widely different
paths. Subsequent to their separation
Mr.. w, married an estimable lady
moved to California, became either
of Stockton twenty years ago where hC
now ownes property OF considerable
value. By the second wife he ha6
three or four children. The second
wife having died some years since, ant
Mr., w, being situated so as to greatly
need a wife, visited his old friends il
New York and Michigan, and made hi.
way here to be reunited, from choice
and conviction of duty, with her whom
he had chosenin hisyouth The meet
ing was peculiar and romantic.
Mr.. Williamson on the day he called
on her, did not know his early spouse
SO great had been the work Of time. =
Suffice it to say that the past was reviv
ed with pleasant and painful memories
the marriage agreed upon, and thu
happy pair came to the old homestead
were reunited in wedding, standing il
the parlor where Mrs. Mosher, tn,
brides youngest sister; married he:
present husband, and who was in til,
beginning married by the same cere
mOny with her sister. Last evening
they passed through the city on thei
way to their home in California. Ma,
their declining years be the happiest o
their lives, and may they have cause tc
always bless the hour they were re
united