The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-28
2 7 DA LsDENy
ChairmaL of Committee.
AN ACTUAL ENoCH ARDEN.
What a Colorado Miner Found on
Returning to His Home.

A sad and romantic history, in which
husband supposed to be dead returns to his
wife only to find her dead, has recently
come to light in this city. About eleven
years ago Frank II. Fulmar was married to
young lady here of much beauty and con-
siderable intellect. She was a constant
contributor to the press, and wrote several
poems of more than ephemeral interest. At
first their married life was very happy, and
after a year a daughter was born to them.
Then business reveEses came, and the little
household saw the wolf creeping nearer and
nearer to the door. Fulmar was unable to
procure employment here, and at last he
determined to go out to Colorado and try
his fortune in the Silver State. His wife
was utterly opposed to the idea. She i'm
plored him not to go, and finally, finding
that entreaties did no good, she withdrew
her opposition and let him go in anger.
Almost her last words we're that he should
never write to her, or seek to see her again !;
that all was over between them. Fulmar
went out, howeEer-this was nine years ago
and went through all the rough expert
enee Of frontier life. At one time he made
a pile only to lose it Immediately after in
some land shares. He tried desperately the
iuner recesses of the mountains, hoping
against hope that he would make money
enough TO come home with. He wrote
occasionally, but no answers were returned,
and so he thought his wife was constant to
her threats at parting, and finally ceased
writing. This summer the money he had
been toiling for and hoping for through all
the years began to come to him. Claims of
his in the Gunnison country and in the
San Juvan districts suddenly materialized
into considerable value, and while he did
not become rich he still found himself with
money enough to live on comfortably back
in the old st. Louis home. He packed up
his traps, and bidding goodbye to the scenes
of the past nine years, boarded the eastern
bound train, and last Friday morning got
of the cars at the Union Depot and started
straight for home. He lived near Eigh.
teenth and Market streets, and his first
experience was to find the house he had lived
in gone and store in its place. Inquiry in
the neighborhood only proved that his wife
had left about year after himself and all
tlaee of her was lost As he walked down
Fourth street that afternoon he met an old
acquaintance, who, after almost refusing tC
believe his identity, at last told him fear
ful story. His wife had lived for some time
very quietly, hearing nothing from C0lora
do, and bitterly regretting the harsh part
ing with her husband No letters came
and finally news was received that Fulmai
was killed in an Indian foray in 1876. Mrs
Fulmar believed the story fully, and, aftel
year of widowhood, married a Georgl
Marshall, who lives near Twentieth anG
Olive street. Her new married life was a
happy, if not happier. than the old, but il
August last she was stricken down with al
illness which shortly proved fatal, and shl
is now lying in the Marshall lot at Belle
fontaine, where she viii never know tn
finale Of the drama of his life. Fulmar'
daughter had been tenderly reared and j
now at school in Cincinnati. 1t may
! imagined what effect this story had up0
the returned husband. He made up hi
mind at once not to see Mr.. Marshall, and
if possible, to prevent all knowledge of hi
i visit coming 10 him but be also determiE
ed to regain possession Of his child, who Va
in the care Of distant relative to his vii
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