The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-24
A Woman with Two Husbands,

For several days sensational accounts Of
the marriages Of the three parties named
below have been going the rounds of the
press. We have been at some pains to Sc.
cure the facts In the case, and they are as
follows: Nellie Delaven, daughter of
John Delaven, of Canton Village, came 10
Ogdensburg about the close of the war,
and entered one of the milliner shops as an
apprentice. She was good looking and of
arrival she made the acquaintance OF
Frank w. Richards, a young man then re-
siding here. He was Pratestant and she
a Catholic, 4hey were married here
without the consent or knowledge of her
parents, and moved at once to Canton.
Her parents could certainly have
made no opposition to the mar.
riage before it occurred, and they now say
that it was never unsatisfactory to them.
For three years the parties lived pleasantly
together at Canton. Richards then de-
termined TO better his situation, and went
West alone. He secured place as brake
man on a Wisconsin railroad, and intend
ed, as soon as he could, to send for his
wife. Before that time came, however,
an accident occurred by which he was
seriously injured. Dispatches were sent
to his wife to come to his dying bedside,
and the papers placed his name among
those fatally injured. As was to be eX-
Hected, Mrs Richards desired to go TO him,
hut being in straitened circumstances, and
believing that she could do him no good,
did not Hearing no further from her
husband, she gave him up as dead. After
working at the millinery business in Can
ton for some three years, she went to Os-
wego and opened n millinery store in that
city. There some six or seven years ago
oil, n iod tn vOkr, vxyftI,
she has lived since. Their life has been a
happy one, and one child, less than a year
old, has been born to them.
To return to Richards. He was under
the doctors care at Fond du Lac several
months, and finally entirely recovered.
He had heard nothing OF his wife. and
concluded that she did not want to hear
from him. His life after that was one of
a rowing kind, in this business one month
and in that another. He eerected telegraph
poles in Mexico, and worked on the rail
roads IN Texas. At the breaking out of
the yellow fever he was running between
Galveston and San Antonia. He was then
pro;Ioted 10 the conductorship on freight
tram, which he ran into New Orleans to
provision the city. About six weeks ago
he got leave of absence and went TO Can
ton. He has q sister, Mira. Lena Smith, re.
siding theyc. On his arrival at. Canton his
wife, Mrs. Tule, was notified by Mrs.
Smith that he was there. She at once
went to Canton and had an interview
with him. The story that she was
on her way to see sister in the East seems
to be a myth. Richards was at Canton
for several days teaching the boys how to
play billiards and visiting old acquaint-
anCes. He was known by some as Texas
Jack, /" though why he should bear that
name it would perhaps he hard to tell
On the 18th inst, he lett Canton, saying
that he was going to Massachusetts. It is
also understood at Canton that he left New
York ON the 10th for Topeka, Kan. His
wife left Canton the 9th of this month, and
her friends at Canton understood that she
was to return to her husband No. Q at
Oswcgo, and would continue to live with
him. The Oswego papers and a dispatch
to the Sun both indicate that she had a
fearful separation from husband No. 2 at
Oswego, and that she has gone west with
Mr.. Richards. Be this a. it may, the
reader may pay his money and take his
choice, leaving her with whichever hus-
band he has the most sympathy with.-
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