Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-31
The Baby's Grave-Which is it |?
singularlDIspute:Between Two Families.

Sing gularlDisputeBetween Two Families From the Wilmington (Del> Newsl
 ! singular affair comes to light in the old ! town of Glasgow, in this State. Mrs. Thom- | os FIIison's baby died in 1878, and in due time was laid to rest ia the Pencader church ! yard. He was bright little baby, and 1n ce-
 oect to its memory it was determined by the 5, wed parents to have a monument over
 bere,. crave as soon as sufficient money
 the little ed In the meantime the moth
 could be '<bfnlly to the mound and kept
 CT attended fa. The bright sun sId the
 it in good repair Tt green grass and flow
 refreshing rain broue, 'a cemetery looked
 ers and no grave in th -ufng, as was her
 brighter. One Sunday mo-. to the grave.
 wont she went after service Nead of the
 To her surprise she saw at the l. %white:
 mound a pretty tombstone. with lois o. >ver
 winged angels and nice little verses all L
 It. Approaching nearer she saw, not the
 name of her own little darling, sculptured by
 unknown friend but instead the name of
 Brown. Hurrying back to the church, Mrs.
 Ellison met Jacob Cazier, an influential man
 of the town, and to him she related what she
 saw, and then proceeded forthwith to inter-
 view the father of baby Brown an infant that had some nine years before died of chol
 era infantum, and of him demand an explan- ation. He gave the mother to understand in very forcible way that he was not a man to go around pirating among the graveyards for the bones of other peoples offspring He guessed he knew his own baby, and as he was poor man it was not to be supposed that he was travelling around the country putting fancy graves stones upon the graves of other peoples babies. Beneath the mound, he in- sisted, were baby Browns bones, and by it's blessed memory he didn't propose to have vandal hands laid on his property As Mr.
 Brown and Mrs Ellison were each positive, there was big dilemma. The people became interested, and became so interested in the 4I,akkI ,oI- os,l FT1.- baby Brown party was somewhat the weaker from the fact that the baby Ellisonites were led by woman, and the flame of. chivalry extant made it so. As Brown threatened prosecution, the other side wisely left the matter in the hands of the trustees of the church. It was momentous question. the ownership of the baby. They discussed and adjourned, adjourned to discuss, until they settled upon an evening for the decision. Both families, with their witnesses, were cit ed to appear. Mrs. Ellison, confident and hopeful, .came promptly. Brown was so pos tive that to appear he thought would com promise his dignity. In the meantime Mrs. Ellison had consulted MT. Ray, the justice at Newark, who, in looking at the case in all its bearings, suggested that, as a crisis had come perhaps it would be well to look at the cof- fins. Mrs. Ellison was willing. The trustees, hearing the threat of Brown, refused to touch the grave claimed by Brown, but con- sented to have opened a little neglected grave near Dy 1pe digging was done with dispatch, and in the stiffness the interested townspeople that crowded about could hear their own hearts beat. At last the coffin was reached. There was suppressed excitement about the grave. A little more scraping a few losses of the spade as the last shovelful was thrown, when To the coffin of the little baby Brown was brought to light and recog- nlzed by the undertaken. The mother had won. The strange tombstone was taken down, and in order to more fully convince the doubters the little grave was opened and the coffin of baby Ellison was uncovered.