The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-19
A STRANGE STORY
Told BY Hugh X E'aylland of
oreenvilie. KY 55
A REMARKABLE CASE.
Says Hsls :hs Son Of Or Thee'
dore Keat.le, Who for Thirty 4
Years Mas queradsd
as a Woman.

Tho Louisville Courier j ournal pub
lished the following remarkable story
on last Friday:
Hugh II. Hsviland Of Groonville,
KY, claims to be ono Of the heirs Of a
fortune left by Dr.. Theodore lSbattle,
another Murray Hail.
Dr.. Keatllo' died at Punta Gorda,
Fla, in 1896. Then it was discovered
that tho doctor vas woman and that
Tor 80 years sho had SO masquoraded
Tho woman was mother Those who
vera supposed to know, say that in 1863
a little boy was placed in tho Protestant
Episcopal asylum by DR.. Keattlo' thon
oonfessedly woman, known as Kato
Havilandr The boys pamo was Hugh
FL. Haviland.- He was later bound out
to a farmor and finally to an indopend
ent position at Greenvillo. This is the
story of Hugh Haviland, told by him
self, in q letter to TIE Courior Jour.
nal.
For nearly 40 years he know nothing
of his parents. Then oame iettor
from Nov York lawyer, G.. Tarletou.
Goldthwaito 141 Brosdway, who wrote
that while searching for tho hoirs Of
"Df. Theodore Keattle," whom death
revealed to bo woman, he had found
that in 1853 Bho, going by tho namo Of
Kato Hsviland had put II agh Fl Havi,
land in the Protestant Bpisoopal or
phan asylum at Louisville. Hugh H.
Haviland at Groonville, is regarded as
that hoy. That KAto Haviland was
"Dr. K,attlo" was, it is said, praoli-
oally established by witnesses in New
York and Brooklyn. <,
But Hugh Haviland is heir to but
half the fortune, A girl who ia cx.
pcotod to divide it with him. Grace NJ
Clark Elliott, Haviland's nioce, so
Lawyer Goldthwaite says, believes her
seif solo hoiross to Imbray CLARK of
Austria, who died worth $25, 600, 900, 81
Hugh Haviland's little sister, Kato
HAviland's osher child, according to
Lawyer Goldthwaito, was put by tho
mother with fostor parents. This girl
grew up, morried CLARK and went west
with him. In 1877 they went to San
Francisco, and there child was born.
Within two weeks the delicate motaer,
Kate Haviland's daughter, died. The
baby. was plaood in the hands Of Mrs.
Martha a. Griswold, superlnt tende lent ;of
tho H7 ONE forE tho lriond less IIhas
bray Ol !, si1 ia elmo Ii s iiaeies
diately for Australia. y. 5!i$2 B "a
Several years after Mira, Griswold
heard Of Olark's death and advertised
for some one to adopt the little orphan
girl. The Elliotts responded, and onl
August FL, 1873, were granted pa pors
Of adoption by a court in San Francisco.
In 1897 the E.lioits learned that I'm.
bray CLARK hal loft fortune Of $25,.
goo, 900 to which there was no heir, and
began fight for their foster daughters
rights. The estate is tied up in tho
English courts, and though hundreds
of claimants have come forward, mono
has been able to prove claims to tho
satisfaction Of the British authorities.
Grace NJ. Clark Elliott had almost
givon up hope when Lawyer Goldtha
waite's letter oame tolling her she was
heiress to the estate Of her grand
mothor, the spurious ''Dr. Keattlo," Of
Punta Gorda. Now Miss Elliott OK.
poets to provo her claims.