Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30
UNITED At LAST.
An East Tennessee Tale of Tried and
True Love.


True Love.
From the Knoxville Press and Herald,
Twenty-three years ago the bereaved fam
lily of Mr.. VIM. McCammon. then lately
deceased, and former deputy sheriff of
Knox county, left Knoxville for Sweet
water. In that neighborhOod Mrs. Mccain
mon, with her family of nine children,
lived for four years, at which time she con-
cluded to move West with some of her re-
latiOns, who were going to Missouri. Be
fore the time, however, her eldest son, HUI.
G.. McCammOn, bad formed an attachment
for young lady schOol-mate, he being
eighteen years of age and she about thirteen.
1t was a long, long trip to Missouri in those
days, and it was weary, long time
before that ardent boy could get a
letter back to the girl he left behind
him, and painfully long and weary time
before her faithful heart was cheered by any
word from the noble boy she loved so we'll,
and who had promised to come again and
claim her for his own after he had secured
a usfficiency of this worlds goods to make
them comfortable. Days, weeks, months
and years rolled by, and save the never
failing expressions of fidelity to each other.
and trust in the future, which the mails
regularly carried, they knew nothing of
each other. At length the war came on,
and for long while even this poor chance
of communion was cut off and each was
left to conjecture the fate of the other. As
soon, however, as the war clouds had all
dispersed, they found their armament all
beautiful and bright as before.
About this time young McCammon went
on prospecting tour up into Colorado.
He pre-empted large tract of land, and
added to it by purchases until he soon
owned very large property. In company
with five others he began prospecting for
silver, and discovered several mines of
great wealth. One of the party opened
and discovered ii to be of unusual rich
ness. This they christened the Cariabou
Mine, and in the fall of 1873 sold it for
three million dollars to some Eastern capt.
taliSts. Nor was this all his good fortune,
but everything he put his hand to seemed
to turn into gOld-his lands which had
cost him comparatively song, became inn
mensely valuable, and he is now dubbed
"a CrOeSus," by a writer in the DenUer
Times. His popularity secured him a seat
in the Territorial Legislature as a Repre-
sentative from Republican county, he
being Democrat. How meet il was, that
just at this time, when wealth and honors
were flowing In upon him most profusely,
he should leave all and come back to Ten
nessee to claim her for his partner who so
faithfully waited for, loved and trusted
him. And so he did, for We see in the To-
cal paper of Sweetwater that Mr.. Hugh Nc
Cannon, of Colorado, and Miss TAYLOR, of
that place, were married on last Tuesday,
and Immediately lett for Colorado. They
have both been true to their early VOWS,
and Heaven has most abundantly blessed
them.
MIR. McCammon is a nephew of Mrs. Nc
Cannon, who lives Just mile above town
on the river, and has besides a great many
relatives in this county and in Monroe. He
spent several days very pleasantly in and
about Knoxville, and proposes, as soon as
he can get his business in proper shape, to
come back here and spend the rest of his
days. He says that the great West is the
place to make money, but that there is no
place under Heaven where a man can en-
joy 1t as in East Tennessee, and that he has
longed to return to his native hills again Is
no son OF Israel ever lOnged to return to
Palestine.