The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-15

| LEFT for her. Why. she returned in surprise
thought the old place was gone long ago"
| AFTER MANY YEARS.
On tho next day George called upon her
second time. She gazed ut him long and ear
ncstly. saying that his first visit had weighed
upon her mind, and she had been troubled in her
sleep. " Amt you George W Ward2" she in
| guired, keeping her eyes fastened upon. his
iaceii lHo was noySr called George W, W9rd
| name appears in tho family Bible rs George
Ward;;-RETl HeCould contain himselfn? Long.
then sat down, and she told him many incidents
| of his boyish life for he was only ten years old
when Emily Disappeared fr2m ,ho, s2bms bG c mer
vnced sho was his lost sister but refused TO
swear positively that shS was 50 when when
larly sad. 1t did not vary from the ono
told in court. She, said that her name, was
brothers, and sisters in the order q their
| birth They were correct. Sho remembered
that she left home when the apples were
unclo sorrel They stopped all night at Cousin
Harrison $. and went away about IL o'clock on
| the following day. Sho knew II could not have
| been earlier than II, for she remembered that
| her cousin set out lunch before they started.
| and slept in log house. near a running brook.
Her uncle did not tell her whose house 1t was
nordid tell herthe names ofthe towns through
| third day they arrived at her grandmother's
house, The old lady kissed her, and was glad
| 10 Nee HOT. AItNf u week Sne turned IN 10 DO
homework and take care Of her grandmother
| who was growing feeble. Her uncle remained
In the neighborhood. and she saw him fire.
quently.
MURDER AND An ENFORCED MARRIAGE.
Within eighteen months her grandmother
| died. and her uncle determined to takc her
| back to Butler county After travelling all day
| they stopped at the house Of one George Hill ut
| the mouth Of Sawml Run, on the Allegheny
| river. The country was wild and uncultvated.
/ Ala Int. oil nj.
| soundly. In the morning she got up. and could
| not hnd her uncle. He had Disappeared, and
she had no reason to believe that he had passed
the night in Hilis house. Her treatment after
| ward led her to suppose that he had been MUIR
| ,dered. She was stripped Of, her clothes. and
mouths They treated her with tie utmost S %e so.
verify She was whipped and otherwise abused
by Mrs; Hill, They told her that her uncle had
She was their daughter Mahala. girl Of lad
Alter seven months She was forced to marry MARI: a
She had never seen until the previous lay He
was married on sunday 10y Mr.. Hathaway.
who said he was q Justice of the Peace.
istrate In Pennsylvania can legally. per-
form marriage ceremony on Snndayl The
boarded with them two months. and then
| moved to Bucyrus. Ohio. There he worked at
led miserable life, for he spent his wages In
rum. and incessantiy maltreated her Her first
son was born in Bp"yrus. She gave him the
| good demon In Bulwcr's Innoni-RTpl
| She could not remember the year OF
| alive to-day he would have been 80 years old
the 26th OF last December From Bucyrus her
| husband moved to Mexican county. Pa. ana
they lived a few weeks in Coryi"n. Here her
| twin sons William and Curtis Rue. were born.
She meant 70 naipc the latter after her brother
| Curtis kumsey. but Rum was s. suggestive of
the cause Of her suiIcrings at the hands Of her
husband that She changed Tito Rue.
|
From Corydon her husband went TO Tuna
| bsIo,v OIcon Tho olso Ii,od n sbor, ,ir,o -,
~ ,itl.h ',... S.'ri IN, IN on
inc Ahesheny river between Sawmill kun ana
Bucktooih. Af,crward they moved 10 Farming
land. in ihc same county, where they. boardcl
| They then went down near the mouth of Rod
| Bank branch Of tn Allegheny river thence
| e. Spring Crock. and from there to Ridgcway,
| Elk county, Alter returning 90. Clarion county
burg Erie county. where they resided six
years with the exception oi the time that they
poaFdrd MIN N ihe sistcr q I, h beisy ,brhhlnEers
more brutal. and treated her Ikea slave. Dnr-
ing their sad wanderings nine chill
WtnhIi We're perm IN p NE Grder hainednb Al
D.. Louisa. John juan. Mary Jane and Fliga.
beth Topham. From Waitsburs Gray went 10
Cenireyllle Crawforl county nnd they vremnined
there two years, when thcy removed 10 Mead
Vile. Here Gray deserted his wife leaving her
again. After he lott her She returned 10 Watts
burg and had been there but two months when
she received a letter from her son Al He
wrote that he was widower with one child
and asked her IN como and take charge OF his
household. saying that lie was the boss Of a
sawmill and in good circumstances. A few
years nfterward Ai and his child died.
In 1859 the Court of Common Pleas Of Craw-
ford county granted hen a divorce from GRAY on
the ground II dnsrrtion. For thirteen years
afterwHrd she lived Oh Water street, Meadvillo
in the house % one George Dixon tailor and
widower Her home was a room on the upper
floor without a door or connection with The
room below Dixon built stairway outside the
building, and she used to crawl through one of
the windows. She did her cooking IN the tailor
shop which was also DiXons bedroom Dur
ing the war her sons. William. Curtis Rue ana
Pearl D.. entered the army. All three are dead.
While living with Dixon, Calvin Hill u brother
Of George. called upon her and claimed to be
her uncle He WIS accompanied by n Mrs.
Cranker and Mrs. Marks. daughters IL George
Hill. who said they were her sisters She repu-
dated all three. and would not allow them 10
stay over night. Five years ago she married
Mr. Danforth and removed - the farm Of Neal
Pcase. adjoining MeadNillr. whore she resided
when George Ward found her.
SELLING HER nrnTuKrGur
annie, ',a,t,rn1
All tnI9 WIS su'ncrcu li"lH HlHcd'te'teNamlha-
tion Of Mrs. Danforth and George W, Ward.