New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-02-27
A Mormon Romance.


A Mormon Romance.
In the year 1875 there lived near the
town of Richmond, KY, a 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 fifteen summers.
Living near was young and well-to-do
farmer named Lucian Robertson, who
occasionally called at the house to pass
the evening, and in the course of time an
intimacy sprang up between the two that
ripened into love, and, unknown to her
parents, they were engaged. When the
family learned Of the fact, Robertson was
forbidden the house, and their meetings
afterward were very seldom, yet they
were not daunted, but in their stolen H..
terviews vowed eternal love and fidility
to one another. In the meantime her
family moved with her to this State, set
ling in Tarrant County. Her lover soon
followed, purchasing and putting into
cultivation a 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 con
verified 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 deplored the re-
ligion her family had adopted. and beg
ged her father to allow her to remain in
Texes and teach school to make living
for herself. This he positively refused to
do, and they left last fall for Mormondom
with party Of converts that left Fort
Worth. She notified her lover by letter
Of the fact and he soon followed, opening
up d store in Salt Lake City. Finding
that Robertson HAD followed in their wake
the father and his two sonsibegan system,
attic persecution against him, and nothing
was too mean in theirseyes to do against
him. The girl, true to her lover, defend
ed the slurs and slams that were hurled
at him, and She too, in turn, was also
prosecuted by her fanatical father and
family in the most cruel manner. She was
made to keep in the house days at time,
while her and her alliances notes were in
terceptcd. The fathers objection to
young Robertson was that he was a Gen
tile, and he swore he should never wed
his daughter. During this time her moth
Ell 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 in
dignantly repulsed.
Her brothers threatened to kill him if
he was ever caught making further over
lures to their sister. All this time the
young girl was undergoing most mer-
CHESS persecution, while an attempt was
being made to force her to adopt the Nor
mon faith. She managed to communi-
cate with her lover, however, now and
then, and finally wrote him that she could
not bear the treatment and persecution to
which her family and their brother Nor
mons subjected her, and begged him, if
it were possible, to aid herin 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
a magistrate, where they were married,
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 Neuccs. We learned the particulars
of their rather romantic life from a friend
of Robertson's, who rode down from Den
nison's with them. He is we'll acquaint-
ed with her two brothers, and is afraid
that they may yet wreak vengeance on
his friend.-Dalzas (Ten.) Herald.