Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-02
MET AFTER MANY YEARS,
Romantic Reunion ot Il Separated
Family.

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Family.
Not all the romance of life is touuu
N he pages of novel and realism
frequently out-distances idealism, A
tale of family reunion in Nashua,
n, H., reads like an interesting chap
ter from the pen of some eminent
delineator Of character
The people interested are Mrs.
William Il. Davis, stephen \, White
ot Boston and Belle Lavero. reader
OF some note,
In October 1871, MIR. and Mrs.
stephen \, White Of Weymouth,
Mass, after STRUGGLING hard to keep
the wolf from the door, decided that
they must part with two of their
three children. After consultation 4
was decided to place the two daugh-
;rrS, one aged and the other 5, in
home from which children were
adopted. The boy, who bore his
fathers name, was to remain al
home,
The father took the two daughters
to an institution in Boston. The
Younger one, Rose, was adopted, but
here was no call for the elder one,
who was late turned over to the care
OF an uncle, and In the course OF time
she married William l.. Davis OF this
city.
The boy. stephen A, White. Jr.,
started out at tender age to make
his own way in the world, He pros
pered fairly we'll. and in 1896 was
working in Boston.
One evening In the fall Of that year
he attended an entertainment, and
there was introduced to the star OF the
| evening, Miss Belle havero, a reader
With him 1t was a case OF love at first
sight
Fate threw them In each others
paths and an acquaintance soon ripen-
ed into mutual love. rhe young man,
however. fearing that his suit would
not meet with favor, kept his love a
secret until Just before Christmas
day, 1898. One evening he told Miss
Lavero "the old. old story" and to his
surprise and delight found that his
love was returned. He was accepted.
subject to the consent of the girls
parents.
That night the girl told her fat Ler
and mother of the proposal. Neither
offered any objection. but the father
told the girl Cor the first time that she
was not his daughter: that she was
adopted by him from an institution
The next day the girl told her lover
the story told her the night before by
her father, and together they sought
the institution from which she was
taken-he with the determination to
make her his wife, no matter what
the records might reveal, she with n
fear that ii might be discovered that
she was a poor nameless waif.
rhe superintendent of the institu.
ton questioned the girl Mt length anu
then began to look over the records OF
the institution. Finally he found
what he was looking for and read:
Brought to this home in October
1871, Rose A. White, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. stephen A, White OF Wey-
mouth Mass, aged years"
In an instant Mr. White grasped the
meaning of the situation 1t was a
sister, not wife. that he had found
and loved. The girl tainted, and after
recovering consciousness was told the
story of her early life.
AS soon as she recovered sufficiently
from the shock she accompanied her
brother to this city and for the first
time in quarter of a century met her
sister, Mrs. William Il. Davis The
reunion can better be imagined than
described.