The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-07-18
NELLIE CAwLINs,
Died of Broken Heart, June +, 1880.
Aged q Years.

:Dled or broken dearC, June 4, lSSU.
Aged y FEARS.
The secret of this strange inscription
pans out to be romance of the first va.
ter. Joseph Martin, the occupant Of
the claim whereon The grave is located,
purchased the claim from the husband
Of the woman whose remains lio beneath
that marble slab, entered into an agree
ment with the former owner of the claim
that the slab should not be mo!ested by
him, and The following storyis from, Mar.
tins lips:
"Whcn ] struck the Territory i've
years ago I looked around for a good
place to locate. started overland from
Big Stone CITY to Wa:ertown, and wien
l reached this point I came across a
homesteader who had turned sod on this
claim. I found him alone, apparently
broken down for some reason or another.
I told him I vas locking for a place to
locate, and he offered ME his claim. He
Insisted that take it for nothing. He'd
been on it for two years and wanted to
go back East. He was Virginien, and
wanted to return to the Old Dominion.
I finally agreed to take the claim, pro-
yided he'd accept small amount in
return. He took me out to tina. grave
on yonder rise and told me his secret.
"In 1876 ho married Virginia girl,
born near Roanoke. The wedding took
place at Philadelphia during the Cen.
tennial, and the summer was spent in
sightseeing aud pleasant honeymoon.
She was the daughter ola South Caro-.
linian, who, subsequent to the war, To-
Gated in Maryland, poorer by FIR than
he was before the Stars and Stripes were
| fired on at Fort Sumter Her maiden
name was Nellie 7. Pell, and the death
other father the year following her
marriage wiped out the entire lot of her
kinship.
"Cawlins and his bride came to the
Northwest and located there. While
p!oughing one spring he turned up some
human bones. No particular attention
was paid to them, as he thought they
were probably the bones Of some Indian ];
but, with due reverence for humanity,
Cawlins picked up the bones from the
furrow and reinterred them below the
ploughsbare's searching point. In re.
moving the bones, he noticed finger
ring which evidently had been worn by
the person whose bones be had discov.
cred. After cleaning the dirt from the
ring he noticed marks and letters thereon.
The ring was slipped on one of his fin.
gers, and he resumed his ploughing. at
the dinner table his wife noticed the
ring and he handed it to her for exam.
inat;on. She took it, and in an instant
turned deathly pale and tainted.
When she became conscious she in.
quired where he had got the piece ol
iewelry, and he related the circumstances
connected with its discovery. She gave
way again, and Oh recovering she ex'
planned the cause of her illness. The
ring was one presented by her to an
other suitor, a young college student
to whom she had been betrothed. The
symbols of a secret society to which he
belonged were ou the exterior ofthe RUG
aud n. I. T., her initials, TO, ]. NJ. s.,
the initials ti bis name, John NJ. Sha!er
were on The inside, engraved there By
her order when she purchased it irr {
Christmas present for him.
'Caslins argued with her that rrcia
biy the ring had passed into the hand:
OF some one else, but sue believed other
wise. S;hafer had goue 10 the Northwest
and had uevcr been heard from, and !h'
bones unearshed By Cawlins we're, i. ne
opinion, undoubtedly his. Her old low
for her first suitor returned. She became
illthrough constantly having her mine
on the ring matter, aud her death fol
lowed. She had requested before he
death that her remains he inferred s
the spot where the ring was found ant
that her grave be marked by stone
bearing the words you've read
after Cewlins went East said Mar
tin, she sent that slab and placed it oI
the grave. I doh't know what becam
of him, Or whether he's alive yet, bu
the way in which lie broodc'i over thi
affair led me to believe that it wouldn'
be many years before he'd need grave
stone and one with al inscription simila
, 10 that out there"
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a Careful Calling.
As ii rule the druggists Of ;hc cps.nlr.
are tie most careful people. They d