The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-21

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Eleven years ago Charles II. Martin and
Martha Spencer were married in this city.
After their modest wedding the young pep
pie, with their Joint savings, bought small
farm near 0berlin and became residents of
Lorain county, where they lived for year.
Martin was then attacked with the Western
fever in its most acute form, and selling his
farm, started for the Neosho Valley, Kansas
which at that time was widely ADVERTISED as
the original Garden of Eden from which
Adam and Eve were evicted. Mrs. Martin
was left in Ohio, intending to remain until
her husband should locate farm and send
for her.
Martin, when he struck the boundless
West, caught the fever in dead earnest and
six months was dry locked at Usage City, n
village q short distance south of Topeka OF
which the only metropolitan Characteristic
is the name. When first Frustrated the un-
fortunate man wrote for his wife, tut the
letter never reached her and shortly before
his recovery he had the satisfaction of re.
ceiving his own missive through tho dead
letter department. He wrote again but re-
ceived no response, and when able to travel
started for Ohio again with o much lighter
purse He went to Oberlin and found that
his wife, after waiting vainly for letter
from her husband had gone to Chester t.
her aunt's To Chester, Martin proceeded
at once and there was informed that the
aunt had occupied a lot in the village ceme-
terry for four months and that Mrs. Martin
had gone to Cleveland. The anxious hus-
band came to this city and advertised and
searched, but in vain. Heart broken and
discouraged Mertin again departed west
ward. He lost what little money he had
remaining and roamed about for two years
aimlessly. The Black Hills excitement
caught him and he was ono of the first to
stake out claim therein. He located sew
eral in succession, selling them in turn to
newcomers, and at the end Of three years
found himself worth in the neighborhood Of
ten thousand dollars, which he invested in a
stock ranch in Southern Kansas and settled
down to the life of cattle grower.
Last Monday he again appeared in this
city in response to a letter sent him and was
reunited to the wife from whom he had been
separated for nearly ten years. After the
death of her relative Mrs. Martin had moi
gone to Cleveland, as was thought, but had
made gainesville the objective point. There
she remained but few weeks, and, taking
what little wealth she inherited from her
aunt, started for Kansas to seek her husband
She returned three months later and has
ever since made Cleveland her home, sup.
porting herself by sewing. She was inform
ed of her husbands search for her here, but
all efforts to discover trace of him through
letters to the West were frnitless, and she
calmly waited for events TO occur without
attempting to force results. Her patience
was rewarded, fer early in the present
month a letter was received at Chester from
the long-absent Martin, asking if anything
had been heard of his wife.
The last few days have been spent by the
long-separated pair in renewing the court
ship of their youth and receiving the con
gratulations of the friends gained by The
lady during her eight years residence on thu
West Side. Next week they start for Flor
euce, Kansas, near which town Martins
farm lies, and where his check is good fo'
s25, 000.- Czeceland Herald.