The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-19
A STRANGE STORY
Told BY I4ughs Il HayiIand 2of
oreenviIie. Ky.
a REMARKABLE CASE.
Sage H..ss!s the sen cfOr Theo.
dore Keattle. Who for Thirty
Years Masqueradad
as a Woman.
as a w oman.

Tho Louisville Courier-J Journal pub
lished tho following remarkable story
on last Friday:
Hugh II, Haviland Of Greonville,
KY, claims to be ono Of tho heirs Of a
fortune left by Dr. Theodore ll,attlo,
another Murray Hail.
X" DE-. Keattlo' died at Punta Gorda a,
Fla, in 1896. Then it was discovered
that the doctor vas woman aud that
for 80 years sho had so mafqueraded,
Tho woman was a mother Those who
vera supposed to know, say that in 1863
. little boy was placed in the Protestant
Episcopal asylum by Dr.. Koattle' then
confessedly o woman, known as Kate
Havilandr The boys namo was Hugh
FL. Haviland.- He was lator bound out
to farmor and finally to an independ
ent position at Greenville. This is the
story Of Hugh Haviland, told by him
self, in letter to TIE Oourior. Jour.
nal.
For nearly &c years ho know nothing s
Of his parents. Then came lettet
from Nov York lawyer, G. Tarletou
Goldthwaito l4l Broedway, who wrote
that while searching for tho heirs $ of
"Dr. Theodore Keattle," whom death
revealed to be q woman, ho had found
that in 1853 she, going by tho namo Of
Kate Haviland had put High Fl Havi7
land in tho Protestant Episcopal or.
phsn asylum at Louisville. Hugh HI.
.Haviland at Greonville, is regarded as
that hoy. That Kato Haviland was
'Dr. K ,attle" was, it is said, praoti-
oally established by witnesses in New
York and Brooklyn.
But Hugh Haviland is heir to but
half the fortune. A girl who is OK.
peoted to divide it with him. Grace M
CLARK Elliott, Haviland's nioce, so
Lawyer Goldthwaite says, believes her
self sole hoiress to Imbrey CLARK Of
Austria, who died worth 1875, ,OC0, 900.
Hugh Haviland's littlo sister, Kate
Haviland,s other child, according to
Lawyer Goidthweito, was put by tho
mother with foator parents. Tho girl
grew up, morrled CLARK and went west
with him. In 1877 they went to San
Francisco, and there okild was born.
Within Two weeks the delicate mot her.
Kate Haviland's daughter, died. The
baby Was plaocd in the hands Of Mrs,
Martha A. sGrisWold, !, superint end ent sc
tho q 81 onla for tho Il Eriond lesss NE IpiS
|Rbray lBTS lo III iSys iiatGes
diatoly FOR Australia. e
Several years after Mrs, Griswold
hoard Of Olark's death and advertised
for aome one to adopt the little orphan
girl. Tho Elliotts responded, and on
August Fl, 1873, were granted pa pors
Of adoption by court in San Francisco.
In 1897 the Eliotts learned that I'M
bray CLARK hal left fortune Of $25,.
600, 900 to which there was no heir, and
began a fight for their foster dau ghtor's
rights. The estate is tied up in tho
English courts, and though hundreds
of claimants have como forward, mono
has been able to prove claims to the
satisfaction Of the British authoritiee.
Grace NJ. CLARK Elliott had almost
given up hope whea Lawyer Goldth.
waito's iettor came telling her sho was
heiress to the estate Of her grand
mother, the spurious "Df. Keattle, Of
Punta Gorda. Now Miss Elliot, ex-
poots to provo her claims.