Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-23
A HuMI11AT1Ne CONFESSION.


Kentucky when you were married ?
When did you leave Kentucky and
why did you leave and where were
you next employed? When did your
wife leave Kentucky and where and
when were you married and what
witnesses were present at your mar
riage. What acquaintance had you
with Jacob Stanwood? When was
your first child born? where did
said child die? where was it buried +?
what was the inscription on its
tombstone? and has said inscription
been altered or erased Did not you
read the proof sheets of a book called
the life of Jas. G. Blaine" and is not
the statement on page IS of said book
miss Stauwood on March 1851 be-
come his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa" Il
correct statement Of the time and
place of your marriage? Did not you
communicate this intelligence to the
author of said book.
After waiting fifteen days Mr..
Blaine gave the following answers to
the questions, last Saturday, which
were made on oath before w. S,
Choate, commissioner for the Circuit
court of the United States for the dis
trict Of Maine:
l, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me,
on oath depose and say in answer to
the foregoing heterogeneous: q II
|. Harriet d. Stanwood,
2. In Georgetown, KY the spring
of 1913.
3. l lived in Kentucky as assistant
professor or tutor in the Western
Military Institute, from January 1918
to December 1851. In 1913 and 1919
the institute was a Georgetown in
1851 at Blue Lick in 1851 at Dire. :
non Springs.
1. The lady married lived in Ken
lucky from the spring in 1913 to the
spring of 1851 engaged as teacher
in Col. Il. +. Johnson's Female Semi
nary. The first two years were at
Georgetown and the last year at Mil
lersburg.
5. l finally left Kentucky in the lat
ter part of December, 1851, and went
to New Orleans on business and
thence directly to Augusta, Me-,
which place l reached February 8,
1852, and was next employed as prin-
cipal teacher in the Pennsylvania H.
stitution for the Instruction of the
Blind, in Philadelphia.
6. My wife left New York in March
1851, accompanied by myself as far as
Pittsburgh, Pa, thence SHIT travelled
alone TO New York, where she was
met by her brother JACOB Stanwood
and under his protection proceeded
to her mothers residence at Augusta
Me-, whose next met her February
9th, 1852.
7, and 8. was married in Mi
lersburg, Ky. on the Both, Of june
1850, in the presence of Sarah e.
Stanwood, and S. l.. Blaine. The
marriage was secret. Having
doubt, subsequently, of its validit!
under the laws Of Kentucky, which
then stringently required a license
from the Clerk of the County Cour
| had the marriage solemnized sc
cond time in Pittsburgh, Pa, on til,
10Th of March, 1851, in the prcsenc'
of John V. Lemoyne and Dayit
Bell.
~ and IL. Jacob Stanwool was tht
eldest brother of my wife. | had nc
acquaintance with him at the time @
my marriage, and had never seen
or heard from him i'll any way, direc
ly or indirectly, before my marriage
, [ met him for the first time in Feb
: ruary, 1852. / had two letters fron
I him after my marriage and before
! met him, one warmly welcoming IN
] as a member Of the family and tn
= other inquiring ifhe could promot
: my business interests by a loan o
= money. had no CORES pondence o
any kind until 1 had personally me
him i'll February, 1852. My wife hat
: two other brothers, neither of whom
a [ had met when came to New Eng
e land in February, 1852, nor did
: ever meet any male relatives Of M.
: wife before my arrival in New Eng
Y land in February 1852.
S II, l3 and IA. My first child, a sol
= was born in the house of his grand
a mother, on the 18th of June, 1851
( His name was Stanwood Blaine
: lie lived with his parents from lS5
to 1854, and was buried in the Stan
wood family lot in Forest Grov
@ Cemetery, in Augusta, Me.
: Is, l6 and II. A monument wa
: placed by my direction over his gray
: year after his death, thus inscribed
}, Stanwood Blaine, son of James &
S and Harriet S. Blaine. Born Jun
/. 18th, 1851. Died July 3lst, 1854.
u Is. l have not myself seen til
e stone since the first week in July
It but have reason to believe, and 4
i believe, that since that date man
II letters and figures thereon have bee
: defaced, and that the figure l in tn
+ year 1851 has been entirely removed
: | have no means of asccrtainimg b
II whom this was done, but have rci
r son to believe and do believe that
+ photograph was taken Of the defac
e ed stone by the procurement of one G