The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-11


ton il she would come to Washington
This she knew would enable her to
better her condition, and she saw that
she would have an opportunity to send
the stepdaughter to school. The offer
was gladly accepted, and when, few
days after, she received through the
postmaster an official envelope con-
tanning an appointment to modest
position in the treasury, it took but
few hours to prepare for the journey
and take the train for Washington. In
few days she was at work, the
daughter was in school, and they had
q comfortable home in the neighbour
hood of Washington Circle.
Soon after her settlement here an
application was filed by her for PEN
sion as the widow of Lieutenant Jones
and it was allowed. This, with her
pay at the treasury enabled them to
live very comfortably, and in short
time the daughter was one of the
brightest of our public school girls, and
during Vacations they were enabled oc-
casionally to visit West Virginia, and
she correspondent with her fathers rel
atives at the north. The daughter
grew to be most beautiful young
lady, and doubtless, in a year or two
would have had large circle of Wash
ington admirers had she not settled
down in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia as a farmers wife.
On one of her visits to "the largest
of all states were it fiattened out" at
a fourth of July picnic, she met her
destiny. She had attended many rus
tic picnics in that section, and as for
beaux, had it all her own way over the
local bellies, for besides her beauty she
possessed all the graces of the rustic
girl with the accomplishments of a
city lady. Her capture at this picnic
was middle-aged and steady farmer,
living in that section, reputed to be the
owner of countless acres Of land and
the prospective nabob Of that section.
He had, like many others, seen service
on the Confederate side, and had re-
turned home with the praise of his
comrades as one Of the most daring,
dashing cavalryrnen of the southern
army. While the girl we'll knew that
her father had fallen while fighting on
the Union side, perhaps with the very
man who then was, her admirer, she
could not reject his attentions, and
finally came to the conclusion that it
was far better "to be an old mans
darling than a young mans slave"
AS for the old man, he was her slave
her, and ere her visit in that section
| was ended the time had been set for
the wedding and it was not far dis
| tant either. 1t needed but a short
time for preparations, and before the
year was ended the marriage took
place in Washington.
| One Of the first duties the girl had to
perform, after she had changed her
name was to inform her friends of the
| fact, and in writing to her paternal
| grandmother she told her as much as
! she knew of her husbands history, not
| forgetting his experience in the Con-
| federate service. This was enough
| for the old lady. That the child of so
| brave a Union officer as her son should
marry a rebel was horrible, and then,
| too he may have been the very man
who had thrust his sabre into her sons
breast, perchance had killed him.
This letter had the effect to cause an
CSLI dllo SOlllG Lew years dl-
ter, the grandmother's condition in life
| having changed, she put in a claim for
| a pension on account of the sons SER
vice. This resulted in re-examina-
| ton of the original case, and it was not
long before the minister whose name
1 was attached to the certificate filed by
| the widow was found, and he pro-
nounced it forgery. The case was
| thereupon sent to the district attorney
and in q short time an indictment was
found by the grand jury. In some way
her friends became aware of it, and
| the evening Of the date of the return
| of the indictment witnessed her depar-
| ture from the city. In her behalf it is
nothing but justice to state that some
| of her Washington friends ascertained
| that she was entirely innocent of in
| territorial fraud, for there was pre-
tended ceremony, the certificate was
given to her and she accepted it In
| good faith; that there was abundance
| of proof that she was introduced by
| the lieutenant as his wife and lived
with him and raised his child as such
While she lost pension and place in the
treasury, it is more than likely that, il
both are living, the stepdaughter sees
that she is In Observation-Disclosures
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