The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-24
ROMANCEOF THE MINES
MORGAN GOES FOR A SOLDIER.
No. Rs.urnius. his wife Misunderstanding his
Wife Dead, he goes Back to wal.s-Hearias
that his wife /, Allrt, he Seeks her ia
Pennsylvania and Marie, the MidOw.

LEIGHTON, Pa, December 2S.-In 1862 a
young Welsh c,uple by the name OF Nor
gan came to the Lehigh coal region, where
the husband, who was a miner, had pro.
cured work in the mines. A few months
afterward he enlisted ina company that
was being raised to join Pennsylvania
regiment in the war, and went to the front.
A short time aiterward his wife gave birth
to child. She received one letter from
her husband, and then never heard from
him again. The smallpox broke out in
the mining village where she lived, and
both she and her child contracted the
disease, but both recovered. The regi-
ment in which Morgan had enlisted suffer.
ed terribly during the war, and but few
returned to their homes when it was over.
Morgan did not return.
wRpDGD AND WIDOWED AGAIN.
His wife had removed to the Lykens
Valley coal regions in 1854, believing that
her husband was dead. She conducted a
boarding house in one Of The small mining
villages in the Lykens Valley, her board
ers being principally miners. She was en-
abled to engage in the business through
the kindness Of middle-aged miner
named Schell, q widower., IN 1870 she
married Schell. He left three children,
and his step-soD, Edward Morgan, whom
he had always treated as his own child.
He left some little property, which he
willed to his widow during her lifetime, or
until she remarked. In the event OF her
death or her marrisge the property was to
be divided equally bstween the four chill.
dren. The widow continued the boarding.
house alter her husbands death.
NO. ONE TURNS ur.
A few weeks age; as q miner from the
Lykens Valley states, the Welsh husband
David Morgan, appeared at the boarding
house and made himself known. His
identity was unmistakable. II seems that
the report .hadibeen received in theicom,
'panyisof which Morgan was a member
that his wife and child had both died with
the small. .pox,and the report was confirmed
Wy tLo htakSA4Sht Ahhdc " . NV tSStuit
from the neiShborhood. Morgan had
been taken prisoner, and was not released
until peace was declared. Broken in health,
he determined TO return at once to Wales,
where he regained his health and again
went TO mining. During the fall just
passed former acquaintance Of his, who
had been working in the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania for many years, returned to
Wales, when he was surprised to find Nor.
gan alive and well. The acquaintance
knew that Morgan's wife and child had re-
covered from their illness, and that she
had removed TO Lyksns.
THE OLD KNOT RETIED.
Morgan sailed for America at once, and
the husband and wife, who had believed
one another to be dead for twenty years,
met under the circumstances mentioned.
The meeting was a happy enc, although 1t
brought aboutIa peculiar complication In
the domestic affairs Of the wife. The mar
rage ceremony was sgAin performed be-
tween them, the wife being married under
the name Of scheil. Morgan, who had
saved snug fortune since his return to
Wales, purchased the right OF Schell's
children in their property, and adopting
them as his own, the family returned to
Wales. ili