Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-03
aoUEER sroRY.
A st. Loufs EnOch Arden Finds Ats
wife Esemarrfed and Dead.
t-Dispatch.


Dispatch.
Since Tennyson wrote his pa
thetic. ballad of "Enoch Arden =
case after case in real life has oc-
cnrred of similar character. The
Dubois affair in st. Louis will be
recalled by old residents, and an
other similar episode has just been
exploded in our. midst. About
eleven years ago Frank I'll. Fulmar
was married TO a young lady here
of much beauty and considerable
intellect. She was a constant con-
tributor to the press, and wrote
several poems of more than ephem-
eraI interest. At first their mar
ried life was very happy and after
a year a daughter was born TO
them. Then business reverses
came and the little household saw
the wolf creeping nearer to the
door. Fulmar was unable to pro-
cure employment here, and at last
he determined to go out to Colora-
do and try his fortune in the Silver
State. HIS wife was utterly OPP
posed to the idea. She implOred
him not to go, and finally, finding
talat 1ntreafies did no good, she
withdrew her opposition and let
him go in anger. Almost his last
words were that he should never
write to her or seek to see her
again that all was over between
them. Fulmar went out, however,
this was nine years ago-and went
through all the rough experiences
e Ii
made pile, only to lose it imme-
diately after in some land shares. he
tried desperately the inner 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 wri-
ting. This summer the money he
had been toilipg for and hoping for
through all the years began TO come
to him. Claims of his in the Gun
nison country and in the San Juan
districts suddenly materealized into
considerable value, and while he
did not become rich, he still found
himself with money enough to live
on comfortably in the ole st. Louis
home. He packed up his traps and
bidding goodby to the scenes of the
past nine wears, boarded the East
ern-bound train, and last Friday
morning got off the cars at the Un-
ion Depot and started straight for
home. He lived near Eighteenth
and Market streets, and his first ex-
perience was to find the house he
had lived in gone and store in its
place. Inquiry in the neighbor-
| hood only proved that his wife had
left about year after himself and
all trace of her was lost. AS he was
walking down Fourth street that af-
ternoon he met an old acquaintance
who after almost refusing TO believe
| in his identity, at last told him the
story spread below. His wife had
| lived for some time very quietly,
hearing nothing from Colorado and
bitterly regretting the harsh part
| ING with her husband. No letters
came, and finally news was re-
ceived that Fulmar was killed in an
Indian foray in 1876. Mrs. Fulmar
believed the story fully, and, after
a year of widowhood, married a
Mr.. George Marshall who lives near
Twentieth and Olive streets. Her
new married life was happy, if not
happier than the old, but in August
/ last she was stricken down with an
/ illness which shortly proved fatal,
and she is now lying in the Mar
shall lot out in Beilefontaine, where
she will never know the finale OF
the drama of his life. Fulmar's
daughter had been tenderly reared
rand is now at school in Cincinnati.
1t may be imagined what effect this
story had upon the husband. He
made up his mind at once not to see
Mr.. Marshall, and, if possible, to
| prevent ali knowledge of his visit
coming to him but he also deter
mined to regain possession OF his
child, who was in the care of a dis
tant relative OF his wife in Cincin-
natl.
On Sunday night he left for Ohio,
and by this evening he probably
has already discovered his daughter,
and astonished the people whohaye
been mourning him as dead for the
past five years. Although Mr..
Marshall was not seen by Mr.. F'ul-
4 mar, he has already heard OF his
resurrection and written to Cincln-
natl to his wife's first husband.