The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-03-11
A Story OF Love.
psridy and Contention, With Its Beginning
Ia West Virginia Before the War.

Inc ClnclnnaH commercial.
Tribune tells the following
strange story
Its heroine is Mrs. Ellen No
ran, who was in that city recent
ly on her way to join her hus-
band.
Mrs. Moran, SIS Ellen Cassidy,
was a belle OF Kanawha. West
Virginia, before the war. She
was courted by two brothers.
Casio and Archie Moran. She
was unable to choose between
them until the war broke out.
Archie espoused the cause of the
North and Casio the cause of
the South. Southern in her
sentiments she chose Caste and
married him in 1861 at Wythe-
vile.
The fortunes of war carried
him from her side, aud she re-
NAMED in Wytheville for nearly
ayear, hearing nothing from her
husband save that he had been
ordered with the forces of West
Virginia to Tennessee.
Nearly four years passed. She
had drifted about through Vir-
ginia, finding a home wherever
she could in return for services
as housekeeper. In the winter
of 1865 she was engaged by the
family of Capt. Thompson, of
Kanawha, as maid, and accom-
panied them on their return from
the Confederacy as far as Charles
ton.
There, some months after.
wards, she became dangerously
i'll, and remained for weeks in
the hospital. a fact recorded by a
Charleston paper, with arequest
for aid for the wife of a soldier.
While convalecing she receiv-
ed a letter from her husbands
brother. Archie, from whom she
had heard nothing since his de-
parture from the army. The
letter was kind, explaining that,
by means of the newspaper
notice. he had learned her where
abouts, her illness and need of
charity. The letter further gave
the sad intelligence of her hus.
bands death, a newspaper clip
ping that stated the fact accom-
panying the same He had been
according to the report, dead
three years. The brother-in-law
enclosed sufficient money to de-
fray her expenses by boat to
Gallipolis where his company
was stationed.
He met her at the wharf upon
her arrival and took her to a
boarding house. He persuaded
her to marry him, urging her
friendless condition and his love
and constancy.
Two children, Mrs. Morgan
says, were born to them, but both
had died while they lived in
Wolfe comfy. Kentucky. He
had been kind to her, and her
marriage was a happy one. He
died last November in Owen
county. Kentucky. Just before
his death he called her to his
bedside, and begging her for
giveness for his sin, unfolded the
fact that her husband. Casio.
still lives and IS a resident OF
Toronto, Canada.
He excused his crime upon the
grounds of his love for her. He
told her that he had caused the
notice of his brothers death he
had sent her to be inserted in a
West Virginia paper, hoping that
it would reach her eye. And he
further told that he had cores
ponded with Casio, while the lat.
ter was in Tennessee. Shortly
after the confession of his peridy
he died.
He had furnished her with
Cssto's address. She wrote to
him, telling the long. sad story
and she showed an equally
lengthy letter from her husband
full of joy at hearing from her,
detailing his own life story, tell
ing more than Archie had done
concerning his treachery. He