The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-10
A BRAVE WOMAN.
The Lovely Life of Judge and Mrs.
Wenner ON fremont Island.

Two weeks ago a brave soul went
out-a young man who had felt that
he was under sentence of death for
six previous years, from which sem
tence there could be no reprieve. and
yet while keeping, as he has been,
that death watch upon himself. no
one ever heard him complain, either
of the sufferings which were rending
his body or of the fate which, like a
deaths head, was always staring him
in the face, says the Salt Lake
Tribune.
Uriah J. Wenner was born in Beth
lehem, Pa, forty-two years ago. He
was of splendid stock. His brother,
Ct. U. Wenher, is o n Of the fore
most doctors of divinity in New York
city. He took many honors in the
schools: he graduated with honor at
Yale, and with high hopes he began
his life work.
Then the disease, which had all the
time been latent, developed, and he
knew hat active work in the career
which he had marked off was impossi-
BILE. He bought Fremont Island. in
Great Salt Lake; he built him a home
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and cattle and horses, moved his little
family there and sat down to wait for
the inevitable.
The story of Mrs. Wenner's life on
Fremont Island is about the most pa
thetic story ever told on the frontier.
She was born and reared in luxury;
she came to this city, q bride, eleven
years ago. When, five years ago, her
husband decided to move to Fremont
Island, she cheerfully gave up her
luxurious home and went with him.
OF course she had no neighbors.
With no one but her husband and
her little family around her, with a
hired man and girl to assist, she lived
there five years. At h time she was
there two years and a half without
leaving the island.
When two years ago her husband
became too weak to ride on horse
back, she looked after the stock her.
self, she attended to her house and
taught her children, she nursed hers
husband, and in these occupation :,
she was busy every moment of he
time. She says she was happy and
we do not doubt it. Her husband
was failing all the time, but he had
been Il long time i'll, and she would
not permit the thought of the pos
sibility Of his dying to enter her
mind.
So it went on until two weeks ago,
when her husband said he felt more
relieved than he had for months be-
fore. OF course great prostration
always follows a helnorrhage, and SO
he lay very weak. but cheerful, and
on Friday he wanted the man who
had been their faithful employe so
long, to take the boat, go over to
Hooper and get the mail, as he said
he wanted his papers and magazines.
The man, however, did not go until
Saturday morning.
Through the day on Friday Judge
Wenner vas comparatively easy. He
asked his wife to read to him from
his favorite books, and also to repeat
to him whole poems which she knew
by heart. and SO the day and night
passed away. On Saturday morning
he told her what to cook for his
breakfast, saying he wanted "a good
breakfast, but while this was in prep
aration she heard the signal which
she had prepared for him to make in
case he needed her.
When she got to his side the fatal
hemorrhage was on his lips; when she
FASTENED to give him the medicine
that was always given him at such a
time he motioned it away. She put
her arm around his neck, drew his
uead on her bosom, asked him If he
loved her; he answered Yes and
asked her if she loved him; at hei
''yes'' he smiled, and in an instant,
without a spasm, that smile was trans.
fixed and his soul had fed.
She was there all alone. With her
own hands she washed and dressed