Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-10
A BIT OF ROMANCE.
THE COACHMAN'S BRIDE
An Ex-Governor's Daughter Weares of Her Choice
Hartford Courant.l

The sequel to the elopement of Miss |
Nellie Hubbard, the youngest daugh-
ter Of eN-GoF1 Hubbard, and her mar
riage to her fathers coachman, Fred |
erick Shepard, four years ago, has just
been made known to her friends here,
who learned for the first time to-day
that Mrs. Shepard had secured a di-
vorce from her husband.
He was a young fellow of good ad-
dress, and did not drink, or swear, but
he was very illiterate. Miss Nellie,
then about eighteen years old, under
took to teach him to read and write,
and while engaged in the laudable eff
fort to benefit his condition, she lost or
imagined that she lost, her heart. The
fact Of the marriage was not made
known to ex-Gov Hubbard until elev-
en- days after the ceremony, when the
marriage certificate was sent to him by
the groom's parents. His daughter
was preparing to leave the house to
join her husband when this document
was placed in his hands. The heart
broken father confronted her with the
certificate, and she then candid1y ac
knowledged that she was married to
Shepard, declared with the enthusiasm
of woman in love that her husband
was fully worthy Of her, and left the
house to join him, despite the attempts
of grief-stricken father to restrain
her. From that time to this Nellie's
name, it is said, has been forbidden
word in the household ofex-Gov. Hub
bard. The old gentleman disowned
the girl, who had hitherto been his IA
vorite child, and positively refused to
/ receive any communication from eth
er her or her husband.
After the sensation of her marriage
had died away, Mrs. Shepard fell qui-
city out of sight of her former aristo-
cratic friends, and she would have
been almost forgotten but for her pro-
ceedings to secure a divorce, which
have once more revived the memory of
her romantic marriage.
After the wedding the couple re-
manned in this city for about two years,
Shepard receiving clerkship in a
Hartford shoe store, where he worked
faithfully. His young wife had plen-
ty of money at this time, some that
was hers in her own right, and more,
it is said, from the ready purse of her
kind-hearted mother, who, while bow
i. ing meekly to the will of her husband,
could not suppress all love for her
darling child. The couple lived very
happily for time, and a child was
born to them, a girl, to cement their
union. About two years ago they re-
moved to New Haven where Shepard
started large livery stable in State
street, with money furnished by his
wife and her friends. The stable is
connected with a large hotel, and
yields quite a revenue to Shepard,
who is still running it.
They engaged cosy cottage in a
pleasant street, and here for time all
went we'll But the domestic peace
was to be shattered in New Haven.
Mrs. Shepard became tired of her un-
lettered husband, and they began to
find that their tastes in almost every
thing ran in counter directions. Shep-
ard attended strictly to his business
and Mrs. Shepard, who was not re-
ceived with open arms by New Haven
society, showed her contempt of the
fashionable world, Of which she had
formerly been belle, by purchasing q
dog-cart and handsome pony, with
which she appeared in the streets ele-
gantly attired on every pleasant day
. The beautiful woman naturally at
tracted admirers, and among them one
is said to be an aged and wealthy
manufacturer of New Haven, and an.
other millionaire of New York, who
frequents the Turf Club in that city.
Shepard became jealous of his wife
with or without cause, and the result
was that the two separated several
months ago, and have not lived to:
gether since.
Mrs. Shepard's lawyer in moving
for the divorce was L. n. Blydenburg
who figured as counsel for the Malley
bows in their trial for the murder Of
Jennie Cramer. The cause for which
the divorce was granted is said to have
been abandonment, Shepard making
no countercharges. Great efforts have
been made to keep the fact that di-
vorce has been granted secret in Con
necticut, the lawyers and judges doing
all in their power to conceal the re-
cord from the public. It is thought
by some that Mrs. Shepard, having
disembarrassed herself of her plebian
husband, will be welcomed back to
her fathers house, but the general
opinion is that ex-Gov. Hubbard will
never recall the denunciation which
he pronounced against his daughter
four years ago.
Sept. 14th, 1880.
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