Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-05
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
q Suit with Il Romance
Published Daily and Ti. Weekly.

| e''"'e, -au VIII Il p-si-c5 UttURlDS some OF til
mes: prominent mcn in The country, includin,
President Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, Judg
IlIden aud others, forward as c)ntcs:ants hs!
81 intcEs,I2 romantic history connected with ii
IN wh;ca Maryland family Constitute the pin
opal Characters. TIC story goes that some
tine 10 the y*ar 1872 g Captain Ford. Of Bald
unre, was married to ono L1gey Bnskirt. {
WIDOW, formerly Miss LOvcy Ward, Of Somer-
set cAunty, Hd. Shortly after his marriage
Capt. Ford Is SAID to have left Baltimore il
command OF privatccr. wtioh vas c.pturcd
by the British. Captaia Ford was taken can
tive AID pGc:d 10 Darmoor prisop, where he
rongaIEcl for sometime, but faa7 cEclped BY
tunnci;iag his way out. lie weot to SRedeo,
AMI after the close OF lha war returned to BalIi
more, haslog been GoDc about three years. On
his return he found his vile living in good style.
| lie also i0und tia. there was 90 addition to his
hocs s!hoid Ia the person CT lovely little girl,
whom his nei2hbors hid vas tho caytain's s
and Mrs. Ford 5 chilli. bus whom s,mo OF
their mlst intimate scluaintancas, il is al
legged declared Vas an i!lesitimatc child,
| The captain and his wife, however claimed tho
child AZ th,ic own offspring. Capt. Ford did
not long Tc:caIn i,ac i've, but soon after his
return !!'.cd au} SLAYER a.d Iuaic several trims
| tc Alflca. llndiDE his living cirsncs in this
c,un;Ty - Chc.l son, Savannah, ami sane
'imes n Cu5s. R.uro:ug homo agaia his wiic
Is SAID 10 havo btcone aouS OF him. Cant.
Ford then lett the house again, and wont West,
wheic h, lccited number of land warrap:s,
among which was one At the lodisu tJck house
or tort at the mouth of The Maumee river, then
(lSl1l a w'llc'pcss. now the sitn of the CITY Of
Ioicdo. Ii l. over the ownership of this prcp
| cry 'hat the suits are pending. Captain Ford,
alder 60 absence OF three year, came TO Ba!ti
| rare oLc! re, out tiading his wife determines
TO; 10 hsvo apy!hing 10 Do with him, he left,
| Ecl32 10 VI yon. where he entered the navy OF
That c)Intiy. ard served az li,u .enant until
lS.2!2 whcp nc died inIesta!e. His ouIv kos
peo, le so lar as knoEn. were his wife, L,Vcy,
hls mothr and sisters. living ln one of the New
| Eagland Slater, AID bis 50 called child, tho little
| girl, who's, name was Emeoe.
In lS%%3 Or 1884 persons from tho West clmo
here aud co pmerc ID search for tho heirs of
| Capt. Ford. To these persons it was alleged
that Mrs. Bu-kirt. or Ford, represented that
EmcIloe was the lelitimato aod tnlg ohild OF
| Capt. Ford, snl selling her dowly Interest in
tho Toledo land TO them. she c,uscd Emc!iuc
TO cou9:y Ia" !cr, receiving tOr it q small sum
OF mOher. There was living with Mrs. Bus
kr' sister nsncd + IL .batb Ward, who, it is
claimed, bcgg i Mrs. Buskirt to uldcoeiyc
| Eni iuc aud TO t,i! her whose child sho roslly
was, 90 that fraud upon the purchasers OF the
properly ml2ht DC prevented.
MasuRti!e. aHother party, observing she
| grOGlcS imrnrlancc Of Toledo, i,aaired as to
tic ;ise to F5rd's properly. then vacant and
u1el c@sad. Alter ibvts IgitiDg to como extent
Capt. Ford's IiIc. this ;cond parry came to the
l)Lc u-l0c Tia: he oaptaiu had LETT 90 Ieeit.
mate obiEdTrn aud 30 purchased tho title of
| ho properly i:om Capt Ford mother and SIS
| tcfS. la the cjutso of timo it happened that
I}sr. Wade cot an initrest 10 the property, aud
8 nt some ni lis sgcEt3 here TO sco that the
| l:'c WIS tle:r These aEcDis fcuad tie mar.
5,asn record Of Capt. Ford AID L3vay Buskirt
10 old 81. pauPs piIisb record After great
deal oi fisitcg ip the Oaio courts between the
| oTHers Of ths tT0 tides. the cisa was fiaay
| dccreed ID favor o the Baltimore title, depcae
| i)rS having bCra returned 10 lie curt alleging
| that Il u .bcti Ward had GworD that Enciine
was the lrgitiuatc daus h'cr of Can't Ford and
! his vile E3vry.
About year afterwards. however, + .bcth
Ward. S, ho was ,hcG married TO o mao uamcd
JohLsou, a;d Tss living near Marloo, lew
! ::liles from Chrisfa!d, Somerset county, Md,
saw an account O: ihc ,i,ciou IN q Baltimore
paper, aud WAS heard TO declare that q great
wrong had been cOnri;tcd. and that she and
| sic alone cauld right it. To Mr.. Jthu II,
Handy. OF this city and MIR. Lyman. Il Western
| lawyer, no called TO 500 her, sho refused to
d'saoSa anything as 10 who tro real parents OF
| the child were, bat persisted II saying that sha
| had never said Kmeline VAS the daughter (r
| her sister, Whefcupon Mr Hymsn filled peti.
ton ~ set aside tho decree on tho ground that
| it WAS obtained By forged and fraudulent tosti-
| mDny.
| Judge Tilden, q cousin Of Samuel J. Tiidon,
and tho principal person concerned, then
| brought suit TO recover possession 0: the prop
| crty los: by The decree; after which Judge lrv-
ing, of this State, By special commission. .coi;
] testimony TO sustain lie clso After q grost
deal oI hard dskilllul work Mr.. Handy sue
ceeded at at IN 1877 iu getting Mrs. John.
ws a hH sny D %sa s mf0 s Ssns
her own daughter, the child of an Irish sou
capLsn who irlq tented Captain Ford's house
TO cover her sisters diagraced Capt. Forus wife
had declared to Tue world that Emeline was her
c@n child, and ss such sto lived Tor many
years.
And 50 st last the sec7e: was disclosed. Eme-
lino WAS msrried 10 . former csptsin If al oys.
ter pungy. who is now living in this city. Her
mother, Elizabeth Wsr9, died at her house, in
Somerset county, last year. Mrs, Buskirt has
been dead many yo,rs.
A gres, 2aiiWsy depot has been lu;it on the
Toledo property under The Baltimore title, and
1t is said. nearly 800 dwellings. 1t comprises a..
mcst all OF the Fifth ward OF that city. A large
number OF persons sra directly o, indirectly con-
cetntd N lns casa -Balt. Sun
| The DISMAL SwAMr.-A virginia paper
| tells some things whuh are oot generally kooHr
abou! the Dismal Swamp. Its not vast bog
sunk ljR 10 the ground, ioto which the driio-
syc Of thp snrrf II odjnr c,pntrp Il urc n, ths