The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-09-23
He Has no Means of Knowing
Who Defaced His Child's
Tombstone.
He Did Not Know Her People
Until After His Mar
rage.
Her Brother Offered to Fur
nish Him Funds to Start
With.


torneys to-day fled answer 10 the inttrrog-
atoris OF the Sentinel which were filed
September 9Th. These interros atcries
were as follows:
First-What was the maiden name OF
your wife?
Secoud-When snd where did you
make her acquaintance?
Third-Stste whether you ever lived in
the state OF Kentucky? Ii 40, in what
employment you we're there employed and
at what place and al what time you were
so employed?
Fourth. State whether the person whom
YOU afterwards married lived In Kentucky
st that time n what employment she was
engaged, and At what place she was so en-.
gsged.
Fifth. State when you finally left Ken
| lucky; If you at any time resided there,
where you went therefrom, whers you were
next employed and in what business or
calling.
Sixth. If you answer thst the maiden
name of your wife was Harriet StinwOod
state when she finally left Kentucky,
where she went, with whom and when and
where you next met her.
Seventh.-When and where were you
married.
Eighth. Were you married some time In
the month OF March, 1851.
Ninth. Give the date and place of your
marriage and the names of the persons
besides yourself and vile who Were present
on that occasion.
Tenth. What acqusintanc had you with
Jacob Stanwood?
eEleverth. What relation, if any, he is
to the person you married? and what con-
versstlon or interviews did you have with
him before said marriage concerning the
same, and where did such interviews. If any,
occur, and what was said and done therein?
Twelfth. Was not the first child of said
marriage born the 18th day of June, 1851.
Thirteenth. What was the name? How
long did it live and with whom?
Fourteenth. When did said child die?
Where was it buried? and, il in any ceme
terry, give the name OF the cemetery.
Fifteenth. Was any tombstone or monu-
ment erected at grave of said child? Give |
date of its birth and by whose directions |
wss such tombstone erected
Sixteenth. Was there any inscription on |
said tombstone at the time OF its erection |
or shortly thereafter? Ii so give said in |
scription in words and figures as the same
was originally given on said tombstone?
Seventeenth. Did not the said
tombstone bear the following
inscription relative to the birth OF
said child: "Sianwood Blaine, born June
18Th, 1851 ?"
E ghteenth. Has any portion OF said in
scriptiOn on said tombstone been erased
since It's erection, and if so what portion ?
Nineteenth. What acquaintance have
you with book called The Life of James
o. Blaine, written By Russell Conwell with
introduction by George ROBBIE, OF Maine,
and published by f. Z. Allen Il Co., AT
gusts, Maine, in the year 1884?
Twentieth. Were not the proofs OF such
work submitted TO you for revision?
Twenty-fz>t. Is not the statement made
upon the 6Sth page OF said book, as fol-
lows?
"Miss Stanwood in March 1851 became
his wife at Piltsburg, Pennsylvania" cor
rect statement as 10 the time and place OF
your marriage?
Twenty second. Did you not communi.
cate TO the author of said book for his use
in such work, the time and place OF your
marriage as aforesaid? To these interrog-
atories Mr.. Blaine responds as follows:
THE ANSWER.
/, Jas. G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me-, on |
oath, depose and say in answer to the fore
going interrogatories,
First, Harriet 3. S:anwcod.
Second, In Georgetown, KY, In the
spring of 1913.
Third, ] lived in Kentucky as assistant |
professor or tutor In the Western Military !
institute, from January, 1913 to December,
1851. In lS4S and 1919 the institute was |
at Georgetown in 1850 at Blue Lick, and |
in 1851 at Decsnnon Springs.
Fourth. The lady i married lived in |
Kentucky from the spring OF 1S4S to the |
spring of 1851. She was employed as a
teacher in Col. T. F. Johnson's Female |
seminary, the first two years at George
town. the last wear at Millersburg.
Fifth, / finally left Kentulky in the lat. |
ter part of December, 1851. / went to |
New Orleans on business, thence directly |
to Augusta, Me, which place | reached |
February 9, 1852, and was next employed |
as the principal teacher in the Penusylva- |
MIA institution for the instruction of the
blind, in Philadelphia.
Sixth, My wife left Kentucky in March,
1851, accompanied by myself as far as
Pittsburg, Pa, thence we travelled at once
to- New York, where she was met by her
brother, Jacob Stauwood, and under his
protection proceeded to her mothers resi-
dence in Augusta, Me-, where l next met
her February 1852,
Seventh, eighth and ninth-I was mar.
ried in Millersburg, KY, on the 3Oth of
June, 1850, In the presence OF Sarah c.
Stanwood and L. L Blaine. The mar.
riage was secret. Having doubt, subse-
quently, of its validity under the laws Of