The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-02

ally Answered by Mr.. Blaine and Sub
scribed to Under Oath.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September %.
Mr.. Blaine's attorneys Saturday filed an
swer to the interrogatories of the Sentj-
net, which were fled September 5. These
were as follows:
1. What was the maiden name of your
wife?
2. When and where did you make her
acquaintance?
3. State whether you ever lived in the
State of Kentucky. If so, in what en-
ployment you were there employed, and
at what place and at what time you were
so employed.
4. State whether the person whom
you afterwards married lived in Ken
lucky at that time and in what employ
ment she was engaged, and at what place
she was so engaged.
6. State when you finally left Ken
lucky; if you at any time resided there;
where you went therefrom; where you
went therefrom; where you were next
employed, and in what business or call
ing.
&. If you answer that the maiden
name of your wife was Harriet Stan
wood state when she finally left Ken
when snd where you next met her.
Z. When aud where were you mar
ried?
8. Were you not married some time in
the month of March, 1851?
g. Give date and place of your mar
riage and the names of the persons, be-
sides yourself and wife, who were pres
ent or that occasion.
10. What acquaintance had you with
Jacob Stanwood?
IL. What relation, if any, was he to
the person you married; and what con-
versation or interview did you have with
him before said marriage concerning the
same, and where die such interview, if
any, occur, and what was said and done
therein?
II. Was not the first child of said mar
riage born on the 18th day of June,
1851?
Is. What was the name? How long
did 1T live. and with whom?
IA. When did said child die? Where
was it buried? and if any cemetery, give
the name of the cemetery?
Is. Was any tombstone or monument
erected at the grave of said child? Give
date of its birth, and by whose direction
was such tombstone erected.
I6 Was there any Inscription on said
tombstone at the time of its erection, or
shortly thereafter? If so, give said in
SCTfDGlOn
same was originally craven on said tomb
stone.
IT. Did not said tombstone bear the
following inscription relative to the birth
of said child: "Stanwood Blaine, born
June Is, 1852"
Is. Hasany portion of said inscription
said tombstone been erased since its
erection? If so, what portion?
I9. What acquaintance have you with
the book called s'The Life of James G.
Blaine,'' written by Russell II. COnwell,
with an Introduction by Governor RObie
of Maine, aud published by Z. g. Allen &
Co., Augusta, Me, in the year 1884?
20. Were not the proofs of such work
submitted to you for revision?
2I Is not the statement made upon
the sixty-eighth page of said book as fol-
lows: stMfss Stanwood in March, 1851,
became his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa" A
correct statement as to time and place OF
your marriage!
p. Did not you communicate to the
author of said book for his use in such
work the time and place of your mar
riage aforesaid!
BLAINE REPLIES.
To these interrogatorles Mr.. Blaine re-
spOnded as follows:
l, James G. Blaine, of Augusta, Me-,
on oath depose and say in answer to the
foregoing interrogatOries:
l. Harriet B. Stanwood.
2. In Georgetown, Ky, in the spring
of l84S.
3. 1 lived in Kentucky as assistant pro-
fessOr or tutor in the Western Military
| Institute from January, l848, to Decem-
| Der, 1851. In 184S and 1849 the institute
was at Georgetown, in / 8 80 at Blue Lick,
| in 1851 at DecennOn Springs.
4. The lady 1 married lived in Ken
| lucky from the Spring of I848 to the
| Spring of 1851. She was engaged as
| teacher in Colonel 7. Z. JOhnsOn's
! Female Seminary, the first two years at
| Georgetown, the last year at Alillers-
| burg
5. 1 finally left Kentucky in the latter
| part of December, 1851; went to New
| Orleans on business, and thence directly
| to Augusta, Me, which place l reached
| February 8, 1852, and was next employed
as principal teacher in the Pennsylvania
| Institution for the Instruction of the
/ Blind in Philadelphia.
6. My wife left Kentucky in March,
1851, accompanied by myself as far as
! Pittsburg, Pa; thence she Travelled
/ alone TO New York, where she was met
| by her brother, Jacob StanwoOd, and
! under his protection proceeded to her
! mothers residence in Augusta, Me. {,
| b re / next met her February 8, 1852.
| z, s and O. | was married in Millers-
| DuI4, NY, On Inc OULn Oh OuuG5 ICOOg iu
the presence of Sarah c. StanwOOd and
| S. l.. Blaine. The marriage was secret.
| HaYinga doubt subsequently of its valid
fty under the laws of Kentucky, which
then striUgently required a license from
the Clerk of the County Court, l had the
marriage solcmniZed a second time in
| Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 29lh of March,
| 1851, in the presence of John V. LemOyne
and David Bell.
10 and H. Jacob Stanwood was the
! eldest brother of my wife. / had no
acquaintance with him at the time OF
| my marriage; had never seen him, nor
heard from him in any way, directly or
| indirectly, before my marriage. l met
| him for the first time in February, 1852.
1 had two letters from him alter my mar
| riage, and before l met him. One warm
ly welcoming me as a member of the
| family, the other inquiring if he could
| promote my business interests by the
| loan of money. l had no other cor
| respondence of any kind until after L had
| personally met him in February, 1852
My wife had two other brothers, n itheI
of whom had ever met, when | came to
New England in February, 1852; nor did
! ever meet iany of the male relatives oi
my wife before my arrival in New En-
gland in February, 1852.
u, 13 and IA. My first child, a son,
was born in the house of his grandmoth.
er on the 18th of June, 1851 His name
was Stanwood Blaine. He lived with his
parents in 1852 and 1854, and was buried
in the Stanwood family lot in Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Me.
I5, Is and II. A monument was
placed by my direction over his grave
one year after his death, thus inscribed
"Stanwood Blaine, son of James 6. and
Harriet S. Blaine, born June Is, 1851,
died July 81, 1854"
Is. have not myself seen the stone
since the first week in July, but have
reason to believe, aud do believe, that
since that date many letters and fgur7S
thereon have been defaced, and that the
figure 81, - N the year 1851, has been en-