The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-22
A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE.
How Man and Wife Met After
Twenty Years Separation.

Vallejo Chronicle, Dec. 80: One
of those strange episodes in human
life which makes US sometimes
wonder at "the eternal fitness of
things" occurred last night at the
Vallejo junction. The tide being
low on the arrival of the Contra
Costa passengers for Vallejo were
compelled to make quite a descent
from the wharf to the boat, and the
ladies required the assistance of
the gentlemen present. A Mr.. g.,
grain speculator, was doing the
agreeable in this respect, one of
the last ladies to descend was over
burdened with few bundles.
which he took charge of, and &C
companied the lady to the cabin,
where they sat and engaged in con-
versation. The subject finally
touched upon the nativity of
each, when it was found they were
both from the same town in Ken
lucky. This fact made each more
communicative, when he inquired
her name, which was given as Mrs.
G Immediately the gentleman
grew pale and excited and asked:
You had asdaughter, did you
not?"
81 did," she responded. pray,
how do you know thatr
lis that daughter livlng?"
"She is, and at present on a visit
to friends at Vallejo, where 1 am
now going"
"Merciful heavensr he gasped.
"My childw
"Sir. said the lady, rising; "what
do you meanf"
"MeanP' he crafty replied
"Mean2 Why, 1 mean that that
daughter is my own child and you
are my wifer'
Almost oveipowered at this con-
fession she piled him with ques
tions, to every one of which he re
turned a correct answer, when she
was convinced that the man was
really her husband, from whom she
had been separated twenty years.
1t seems the twain were married at
Paris, Kentucky, in 1858, and thir
teen months afterward he went to
on business. The vessel
on which he took passage was
wrecked and all on board were sup
posed to have persisted. The news
coming to the young wife's ears,
she was utterly Frustrated and was
ordered to California by her physi
clans. Arriving here she took up
her residence at Los Angeles. The
husband was picked up from the
wreck by fishing smack and taken
10 some remote foreign port, where
pc was thrown upon a bed of sick
ness, which lasted some sixteen
months. In the mean time he had
written repeatedly to his wife but
no answer. In his despair
ne concluded to risk a journey
across the Atlantic. Feeble as he
vas ne shipped before the mast on
/ sailing vessel, and in due time
arrived in New York. From there
ne wrote three times to his wife but
-eceived no answer. Almost fren-
lied at the thought that she might
De dead, and being without funds
md no friends, he faced" his fare
clear to Kentucky, and shortly af
Ter arrived at Paris. Inquiries
throughout the town assured him
hat his wife had disappeared q |
year or so before, no one knew
whittier. Some said she had gone
n search of her husband, others
hat she might be dead, and others
hat she had gone to California. |
he sought the old family physician,
put he had left the town some |
line before. Mr.. G. then went to |
work at Louisville and made
to bring him to California
/ year after his arrival in kentucky.
He searched everywhere for his alb
sent wife, but without success and
inally gave her up as dead, and she
also had mourned for his death.
Neither, however, had married |
again, and last evening on board
,he Contra Costa, was the first init
nation either had that the other
vas in existence.
The now happy family arrived
lere last night, and to the surprise
If the friends of the lady she in
reduced her husband from whom
she had been separated twenty
Tears. But imagine his unutterable
and joy when the mother
ed into the parlor a beautiful
young lady, his own daughter,
whom he had not seen since she
vas q babe. Father, mother and
laughter will leave tomorrow for
San Francisco, where Mr.. G., who
8 wealthy man, has his business,
md where they will hereafter re-