American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-02
True Love Rewarded.

The Dallas (Texas) Herald published
the following pretty romance: In the
year 1875 there lived near the town of
Richmond, KY, family by the name of
Stevens, consisting of father, mother,
two sons and daughters. The youngest
of the daughters, Hattie, was a beautiful
girl of some Is summers. Living near
was a young and well-to-do farmer
named Lucien Robertson, who occasion
ally called at the house to pass the even
ing, and in the course of time an in
timacy sprang up between the two that
ripened into love, and, unknown to her
parents, they were engaged. When the
was forbidden the house, and their
meetings afterwards were very seldom,
vet they were not daunted, but in their
stolen interviews vowed eternal love
and fidelity to one another. In the
mean time her family moved with her to
this State, settling in Tarrant County.
Her lover soon followed, purchasing and
putting into cultivation farm on the
Neuces River, in Live Oak County.
Last fall when the Mormon fever swept
over some of the western counties in the
State, her father and all the family, save
herself, were converted to the faith, and
he determined to sell out and
leave for Salt Lake City, which he
did. The girl, who is represented
as being very intelligent, greatly de-
Ill hn ha1- fa ho6
adopted, and begged her father to allow
her to remain in Texas and teach school
to make living for herself. This he
positively refused to do, and they left
last fall for Mormondom with a party of
converts that left Fort Worth. She noti-
fed her lover by letter of the fact, and
he soon followed, opening up a store in
Salt Lake City. Finding that Robertson
had followed in their wake, the father
and his two sons began a systematic
persecution against him, and nothing
was too mean in their eyes to do against
him. The girl, true to her lover, de-
Tended the slurs and slams that were
hurled at him, and she, too, in turn,
was also prosecuted by her fanaticai IA
Their and family in most cruel manner.
She was made to keep in the house days
at time, while her and her alliances
notes were intercepted. The fathers
objection to young Robertson was that
he was Gentle, and he swore he should
never wed his daughter. During this
time her mother died. Thinking the old
man might possibly be softened by the
death of his wife, Robertson once more
essayed to gain his consent, but was
rudely and Indignantly repulsed. Her
brothers threatened to kill him if
he was ever caught making further
overtures to their sister. All this
time the young girl was undergoing a
most merciless persecution, while an at
tempt was being made to force her to
adopt the Mormon faith. She managed
to communicate with her lover, how
ever, now and then, and finally wrote
him that she could not bear the treat
ment and persecution to which her fam
lily and their brother Mormons subject
ed her, and begged him, if it were pos
sible, to aid-her in making her escape.
The young man took a sensible view of
the case, and reported the matter to a
United States officer, who, upon the
swearing out of an affidavit, released the
young girl, whom he found shut up in a
dark room. The two repaired at once
to magistrate, where they were mar
ried, and they lost no time in taking a
hasty leave of the scene of their troubles,
and yesterday evening the happy pair
passed through the city en- route to their
farm on the Neuces. We learned the
particulars of their rather romantic life
from friend of Robertson's, who rode
down from Denison with them. He is
well acquainted with her two brothers,
and is afraid they may yet wreak ven
geance on his friend.