The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-17
a STRANGE STORY.
Separated Infants Meet in After Years
as Lovers.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
BOWLING GREEN, KY, July 13.-In the
sugar grove neighborhood of Butler county
there is at present a true romance, the be-
ginning of which dates back to the ante
bellum days. The story is a strange one,
and equals almost the most sensational
novel or this time.
Below are the facts as learned from one
of the principals in the affair, who was in
this city last night en- route to Louisville
The gentleman requested that the names be
withheld ON account of the notoilety which
would be sure to result if they were pub
lished.
Just previous to the breaking out of the
war between the states there lived in this
county family whose name is well known
in politics in this district at the present day.
AT this time the family consisted of a hus-
band and two little children, boy and
girl, the mother having died a short time
previous. The father was suspected by some
of having poisoned his wife, and one night
he mysteriously disappeared, leaving no
trace behind to tell where he had gone, but
left two notes to friends in Butler county,
in which he asked them to take his children,
who were respectively one and two years
| old, and raise them, but to never tell them
but that they were their own children. The
two gentlemen accepted the trust of the
! youngsters and kept their secret well.
| The family that took the boy to rear soon
| afterward left Butler county, going to
Southern Texas, where they have since re-
sided. They told the boy of their old home
| in Butler county, and having heard so much
of Kentucky he concluded he would pay the
place visit. He arrived here in December
last. At party at the home of one of the
neighbors during the holidays he was intro
| duced to young lady, with whom he fell
in love and the passion was reciprocated.
| The young man had intended returning to
Texas in a short while, but his cOurtship
was progressing SO nicely that he concluded
not to go uutil he was accompanied by his
| lady-lOve as his bride. The gentleman who
reared the young lady had been written to
| by his old neighbor, then III Texas, who
| told him of the visit of the boy. SO it was
I with a very sore heart he found that q
strong love had sprung up between them,
and he could not tell them the relationship
! they held to each other.
Although the old man had treated the
young man with kindness when he asked
for the girls hand in marriage the request
was refused. The girl would not leave her
thong father even for her lover, SO
he was preparing to leave for his Texas
home About this time the kind old gentle
man who had protected the young lady so
long and well, was kicked by a horse, and,
for several days, was delirious. Dll,ing his
delirium he spoke of the relationsh p that
existed between the couple. AS soon as be
had sufficiently recovered to talk, they went
to his bedside and told him what he had
said during his sickness, and asked that he
tell all. which he did.
While the young man has lost good and
true wife by the transaction he has gained
sister that more than repays for the loss.
He says they will reside in "Old Kentucky"
the balance of their days.