The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-12-11
THE DEAD ALIVE.
! ASFM Man Rsturns Home After an
Absence of Fifty Years.
HE HAD BEEN MoUR:NRDl g J as DEAD 81 D
Ger He Deserted His Home He
6 6 Never Wfpto a Line. to Il His y
tSs wife or His Helpless 4
Children.

IAfter an absence of flfty.four years
from his family Jacob Wesley Cloy
wandered in to his son home j udge ohm
r. Cloy, at Graniteville, last Monday
night week ago. The story reads like
the plot tn some romance. of the, mid
die ages, but surpasses the aucient .ac-
tidn In the fact that it is a true tale.
Are porter for the Augusta Chronicle
heard Of, this marvellous story day
lor.two; ago and meeting Judge Cloy on
the streets; who confirmed it and
added it1 more, wonders to the way 1t had
been told by ysanother. Z q /, I. 5.sj
srhe story recounted by Judge Cloy
began when heswas only twenty seven
days old and his father disappeared,
leaying his mother with two helpless
young children, and. never returned
until last week. - During the absence
ofsthe father the two children had
Advanced past middle age and the good
neither, who toiled for their. support
ard education, had died in ignorance
OH what had become her husband.
Mrs. Cloy departed; this life in 1889. ).
ls&Back in the year l849 Jacob Cloy
WIS the overseer on the plan tationB Of
Hsgsaankz ssa Poseya a prominent planter of
tlie eastern section Of South Carolina.
|Ihe, great farmer had son, Martin
5Epsey, who married young wife, and
fyfF a willie lived happily OH one OF
the places owned by his father. One
day the young wife disappeared and a
|search was instituted to find her. IN
asifeW days after, the disappearance
lhef mutilated body was found In "a
swamp nearby, and the evidence was
lnlain that murder had been COM
Imittede phe strong finger of circum-
stances pointed to her husband. He
WaP, arrested and tried:
Se,.iS MAIN WITNESS DISAPPEARS.
Jacob Cloy was one of the witnesses
snmmoned by. the state at the trial.
.HeswaS one OF the party that found
4 the body Of Mrs. Posey and it was
gttonght that testimony given by him
l.@pnla throw considerabl light on the
case In fact many thought that
i Sl0Y's evidence would convict Martin
1 Fosey of the murdersnf,;chis wife. All
/ asre 8lplsly aaalt tingslthe time
tYHen. Cll0Yss soiisq S:bi,Sk o. thess and
3s YSthe words -: would clear up the
L IEasYstery bhat had shocked the whole
1|2 ltry side by its horrors. The
i me for the trial drew near and inter
Es creased. Finally the day set for
" earring arri we'd and the court
was Wded To bhisd fq iisii fi
Jacob Cloyfwas called to 90 on the
stand 1T was found that he had dis
appeared. Application being made
at his home it was learned from his
wife that he had not been at the
house for several days. :. Many people
Immediately were convinced that an
other murder had been committed to
keep the truth about the first one
from coming to the light of day.
Again the country was shocked and
all sorts Of methods were adopted to
Try and locate the whereabout Of Cloy,
but without avail. 3
AFTER thorough search not few
people came to the opinion. that Cloy
mad gone away to keep from convict
Ing his former friend, Martin Posey.
Mrs. Cloy was left with son twenty
seyeS days old and a daughter not
quite two years. She Immediately
set about supporting them. She un-
dertook such work as woman could
40 and succeeded in raising her de-
serted children in a creditable man
ner and giving them an education.
She often harbored the idea that she
would hear from her husband, but as
the years speed on and not line
came she became convinced that he
was dead.
SON MEETS FATHER.
During the latter part OF the war
Judge Cloy, then a boy Of ii years of
age, was a student at the Arsenal in