Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-28
ANOTHER WIDOW SHOWS UP
South 0arslina Woman Claims to Be Relief
Of Ed Follonsbse.
FREMONT WIFE SURE OF HER POSITION
Mystery Surround Property Dead
Man WINS Known 20 own and
Brisk Legal Fight is
opened.

FREMONT, Neb.. Jan. 27.-(special)-
According to a dispatch from Hartville,
Mo, Edwin Follonsbee, the former Ere
mont man who died there in December last,
leaving, Il is claimed. an estate of $3.50, 900,
had another wife than the Mrs. Kate Fol
lonsbee Of Fremont, who is after her share
of his property. A woman from South
Carolina has notified Henry Roseman, the
farm hand who was sole legatee under Fol-
lonsbee's will. that he was her husband
and that herself and seven children are
about to take legal action to recover the
estate. She does not state when or where
she was married or give the ages Of her
children. J. c. Cook, Mrs. Kate Follens-
bees attorney, returned from Hartville last
evening. He states that only property of
the value OF 50, 500 can be located, though
It was generally known that the old man
had a large amount Of lands in various
states, mortgages, bank stock and other
securities.
A few weeks before Follensbee died he
drew $4,000 from the local bank and disap-
peared for a couple Of weeks. Mr.. Cook is
not inclined to discuss the case, but is
confident that Roseman knows where the
property is located and its amount.
south Carolina Claims Discounted.
Old Fremonters scout tho idea Of Follons-
bees having a family In South Carolina
unless his marriage occurred before the
war. He came TO Dodge county over thirty
years ago and settled near Maple creek,
passing himself as a single man. While
living there, he became very intimate with
a man by the name Of Cherry, and on one
occasion when Cherry's property was about
to be sold in execution he gave him the
money to redeem 1t. From that time a
lasting friendship existed between the two
men, and after Follonsbee moved to FIRE.
mont and married, Cherry spent much Of
his time at his friends house. Follonsbee
had few equals as a street faklr. An old
acquaintance says: why, Ed could go
out on the street corner and sell anything.
He'd sell second hand shoes for the price
Of new ones. He and Cherry followed this
avocation at times while he lived here,
being away sometimes for months and re-
turning with considerable money. What he
did with 1t no one knows. After he left
his family, about eleven years ago, his
friends heard from him occasionally, and
no made several visits to Fremont, but al
ways left out OF sight and claimed to be
afraid OF his wife. On one OF these visits
in 1898 he said he had been in the Klon-
dixie and had made big money" operat-
ing boats on Lake Bennett. He also spoke
OF lands and own property he owned in
Minnesota and Montana. His friends are
confident that he left a large estate, but
nOt as large as is claimed
One Marriage Legal.
There is no doubt but what he was le-
gally married to the Fremont Mrs. Fol-
onsbee, and the clergyman who performed
the ceremon is still living and makes an
occasional visit to Fremont. Mrs. Fol-
lonsbee says that the report that her hus-
band was picked up in an open boat in the
Caribbean sea when a baby and adopted by
Captain Follonsbee, the Newburyport ves-
sci captain, is untrue; that he corresponded
at intervals with his Massachusetts fels-
tives, and his father once visited Nebraska
and urged his son to return home, but in
stead of doing so he ordered the old man
out of the dugout in which he was then
living.
A very strong circumstance showing that
the Missouri Follonsbee and the former
Fremont street fakir are one and the same
is thai the Fremont man had deep scars
made by a cannon shot across his legs,
Just below the knee, and the same marks
were seen on the body of the Missouri
man.
Mr.. Cook says that a curator Of the es-
tate has been appointed pending the con-
test Of the will, and every effort will be
made to hnd out where the property is.
Roseman. the farmland, has employed as
able attorneys as there are in the state,
and a big fight is looked for. He has in
timated that he knows where Follonsbees
property is located. but won't tell until he is
paid for it. Al hrst he talked favorably
of a settlement. but since the South Car,
olina woman has put in her claim saya
he lis going to fight as long as there is
anything TO fight for"
MIR. Cook will take the deposition of a
number of Fremont people in regard to
Mrs. Follonsbee's marriage and anticipates
no trouble on that score. Mrs. Kate Fol-
lonsbee will remain In, Missouri until after