Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-11
ELIZA TIMERS ROMANCE.
a STORY KECALLnp m DEATH
NOTICES,
4 Marriage in which the wife's Love was
Iackirg-Hcr fright wuh n Lover
tits Apr-c--ucr Forgive
ness and Return

! ties Of Pennsylvania Contaius the au
nOuncements Ut the deaths % the jth inst
OF A, 5. Timer aged 81 years, aud Eta '.
! Timer, aged years and the death OU the
! 9th inst Of Eliza G.. Timer, aged 30 years.
| Beyond the statement that these were
! father, mother aud child, tho paper makes
no reference 10 them, although there Is
! remarkable story connected with the
| family.
! Mr Timer was miller Seventeen
years ago he married Eliza Gates, the
! handsome daughter Of Uri Gates, pros
porous merchant The two iayiliCs l'vrd
! in the same village, near the Maryland
! line. Miss Gates married young Iluer
I under the order Of her father. She loved
! George Mills a clerk Ia her fathers store
"A handsome young NTgtnlau-but old
! MIR. Gates was d stern man, and desired
| the well to do miller 10 b. his son iu-laE.
| One week after their return home from
their bridal trip Mrs, Timer elOpcd with
| George Mills Ih0 runaway pair were
! followed as far as Wheeling, but there all
| trace Of them was lost.
| This was IN October, 1867 L. 1870 Old
MIR. Gates died. He bad been severely
! blamed for his course in forcing his dlugh
! ter to marry against her will He left an
! estate worth $4,000 aud 1t was brquelth
| ed to uis son IN law Timer IL was prUyil
Cd in the will. however, thht Timer should
search for tSO years tOV tho missing
daughter and wife. II her whereabouts
vas discovered aud she was living with
George Mills, she was not 10 receive any
aid from the estate, Mt matter how needy
she might be. Ii she was apart from
Mills she was 10 receive 300 tor ono year
IN weekly instIllmants, but not ~ know
whence the money me. II AZ the cud Ot
that year she, without any hint Or SollCl-
tatIOu on tbs part Of either of Tho cNcCu-
'ors Of tho will who were T,nor aud IL
\. Pool, returned home repnureu. aud
jcslrous OF making amends for her sin by
life Of humility, she was 70 be provided
with suitable home aud to receive 80 =
week out of the estate during her lifetime
Il she did not return unIer these C.rcuu
stances and conditions she was % br
forever iobarred from any claim on the
estate. Timer sought for bis wife ~ all
parts "f the country, but found 10 trace
of either her or Mlls, and came t. the
belief that they bad left the country. IL
1872 he obtained a divorce from bis wife
aud soon afteTward married again III
second wife died in 1875.
In 1877 lUgter cIme q the village post
office addressed to Ud Gates. Il was
handed 10 Executor Pop, who Opeuei 10
- W - AANLaA a. Lasv-lllLl W. 'All.' baA W 80
trOm the long miss,dg wife aud dau ghter.
She wrote that she had suffered long aud
| terribly that she was desirDus OF return
| lug repeuteut TO her father aud living
| his forgiveness AMI that, wlr' 81 knew
| she had stunned deeply she had Mt been
the guilty person that they n dpub. bs-
| liGved her 70 BE-. Th.s l1'ter NJ. Pool
| showed to Timer aud the twD resolved o.
90 b LitChdeld and hear the unfortunate
w0mln's story. Nj. Pool visited her first
she was working rs 4 saanstgG,s IN a
private family under her maiden name.
she Wa greatly grieyad 10 hear that her
father had died before she could receive
his forgiveness, aud believing her a
greater sinner than she really rIs T.
Mr. Pool she told hex story.
TIE elop0melL was arranged between
her aud Mills with the idea that she WAS
| to proceed to Indiana aud procure 4 divorce
when they were u D2 married TINS she
| ID At Lafayette she met Mills at Cen
| traI City, Col, where they were married
| by minister named Whitehead. They
lived happily in Con'rli City fDt year.
Mills made money supplying miners, but
finally got to gambling. He lost all the
mOuey he had made aud began to neglect
his wife AID treat her cruelty. lie gave
up his business ia Central City and took
her to Salt Lake City, a place of which she
had great horror. There he opened
| gambling house. This was broken up by
the authorities within year. Then hg
| opened a low resort for dlssOlutc cLdraC
ters, whom he often compelled his wife to
serve with liquor, In 1871 Mills brought
woman to their home and told his wife
that be had joined tho Mormous, and
| that this woman was another
wife. Shortly afterward he brought
another woman there. They lived
riotously, and finally one night the woman
who had given up everything for Mills
fed from his house in disgrace. she sue
ceeded in reaching Deuyur uu new Years
Day, 1872, There she hired out as a din
ing room girl, in the City hotel, where she
| remained a year aud half Theu shg
went as ladys maid with a party OF
| English tourists, and travelled with them
until the spring OF 1875. Then she resolved
10 return hCme. At st. Louis she was
taken III with fever aud lay i'll three
months. Her savings had been exhausted
aud she engaged TO go to Minnesota as a
travelling companion to an invalid lady.
She was with her until 1876 when the
iavalid died near Lake Itaska. Left alone
, and in bad health IN that isolated region,
she resolved to make her way East aud TO
her fathers home. Between Itaska aud
Bratnerd junction she WAS robbed by her
guide, aud left almost penniless 10 make
her way TO Brainerd alone aud On foot fOr
thirty miles. She was compel 10 60 Ou,
to service again and finding thai her health
was growing moro feeble, she made hen
final resolution 10 write 10 her father and
/ obtain, If possible, his permission to re-
turn hOme.
, This story was repeated TO Mr.. Timer
lie at once sought an interview with biz
truant wife. The result was her entire
forgiveness aud remarriage at st. Paul.
The reweddcd couple returned TO theil
I village home aud lived happily together
, Mrs. Timers health, however, remained
very delicate, and when her husband wa
: prOstrated with pneumonia, and her child
which was born to her in 1875 foil i'll with
A scarlet fever, she succumbed TO her grea,
I care and anxiety for them. Their death
= both in one day, were a shock SO grea
'. . that she survived them but a few hours
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