The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-02
-R.UNITeo AFrER .TWENTY YEARS.
A Romantic story from the Mines of
Pennsylvania.
lLehighton CPa.) Dispatch.l

tLehighton Pa) Dispatch.l
In 1862, II young Welsh couple by the
name OF Morgan came to the Lehigh coal
region, where the husband, who was mi
ner, bad procured work in the mines. A
fow months afterward he enlisted in a
company that was being raised 10 join a
Fennsylvania regiment in the war, and
went to the front. A short time afterward
his wife gavS birth to child. She re
ceived one letter from her husband, and
then never heard from him again. Tho
smallpox broke out in the mining village
where she lived, and both she and her child
contracted the disease, but both recovered.
The regiment in which Morg an had enlist
ed suffered terribly during the war, and
but few returned to their homes when it
was over. Morgan did not return. His
wife had removed to the Lykens Valley
coal regions in 1854, believing that her hus-
band was dead. She conducted a board.
mg-house in one Of the small mining viii
lages in tine Lykens Valley, her boarders
Ing principally miners. She was ena.
blel to engage in the business through the
kindness Of middle-aged miner named
Schell, a widower. In 1870 she married
Schell. In 1879 he was killed by fall of
coal in the mines. He left three children
and his step-son, 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 marriage the property
was to be divided equally between the four
children. The widow continued the board
ing.house after her husbands death.
A few weeks ago, as a miner from the
Lykens Valley states, the Welsh husband,
David Morgan, appeared ut the boarding
house and made himself known. His iden-
tity was sunmistakable. 1t seems that there
port had been received in the compa ny, Of
which Morgan was member, that his wife
and child had both died with the small
pox, and the report was confirmed by the
statement made by a new recruit from the
neighborhood. Morgan had been taken
prisoner, and was not released until peace
was declared. Broken In health, he deter
mined to return at once to Wales, where he
regained his health and again went to min
ing. During the fall just past former ac-
quaintance Of his, who had been working
in the coal regions of Pennsylvania for
many years, returned to Wales, when he
was surprised to find Morgan alive and
well. The acquaintance knew that Morgsn's
wife and child had recovered from their ILL
ness, and that she had removed to Lykens.
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 one, although II
brought about a peculiar complication in
the domestic affairs of the wife. The mar
riage ceremony was again performed be-
tween them, the wife being married under
the name of Schell. Morgan, who had
saved a snug fortune since his return TO
Wales, purchased the right Of SchelPs chill
dren, in their property, and, adopting
them as his own, the family returned TO
Wales.