The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-28
loviaI Tells Of Drama EnactedI
When clarksburg Was
Only a Village.
INTERESTING E Pts Cd Il

Business Blocks Now Stand on
Once Woody Scene Of
the Story.
The late ID. i. Shuttieworth several
eafs ago made the following expla.
y 1atipn to Colonel Luther Raymond
q now deceased. regarding the charact-
cIs 9t the persons referred to in the
4 following true love story written In
4 sa6 BY Robert Sewers, of Oscaloosa
!, IA q former resident OF Ciarksburg:
The Mrs. II that he alludcs to. was
The wife OF Thomas ]. Harris, and
The merchant whoae name Mr.. Sewers
could not rcco1lect, who did business
Eoppostte Mrs. Miller's hotel, was
Z Thomas G, Harris. The Colonel Wall
4 spoken Of was Garrett Wall, think
4 4 clsian, who was for some years
N annual visitor TO Clarksburg, re-
lniaining often for several mouths at
4 The james Bartlett hotel. He was a
A negro buyer OF very popular manners,
Il full OF good breeding aud fun and a
). Ereat favoritc OF the patrons of the
i6artlett hotel, so much so that James
p. Bartlett named a son tor him, Gar.
y ret Wall Bartlett, who died when five
4 to eight years old. / do not know OF
K but two persons whose pictures Seev-
Y ers took while In Clarksburg. Miss C.
Bartlett and Mrs Jane Bastable
The author of the story, in a letter
To- the late Colonel Luther Raymond,
makes the following explanation of
the characters:
The young lady that call Miss B.
was MISS Sisson Byrne, and she and
4 Mrs.. H had been raised together
: IN some little town east Of the moun-
q tains. thiek, and after Miss Byrne
moved to Missouri, her young lady
friend married Mr.. HI and moved
to clarksburg, and year or two
+ later when Miss Byrne went back TO
her old home in Virginia she founc
that one OF her best young lady
friends had got married and moved to
harrisburg, and she made that out on
her route as she went back to Mis-
Y souri,, and was at Clarksburg when
got there, and the rest you will find
rexplained in the "Oscaloesa Globe
\ sent to all the people Of on sassburg.
And now. let me give you thy names
4 Of many persons for whom Il made
y drawings: John McGlenen, Miss Mill
{ er, Miss Neft, Capt. Smith, Mfr. Lewis,
Col. Wall, Miss Caroline Bartlett,
'sVirginus Bartlett, James Bartlett,
\ Mrs. Bartlett, Jedadiah Kidwell, Dam
lei D. Wilson, William Burton, Mrs
Camden, Miss Camden, Miss Sisson
Byrne, Charles Lewis, Mrs. Jakes,
Mr Campbell, Robert Criss, Edward
\ Staley, Miss Mary Ann Wilkinson,
Mrs. Miller (widow), Edward Gilpen,
Mrs Rastable, Mrs. Bailey, Mr.. Nc
Mechen (preacherl. Martin Bartlett.
Miss Mary Bastable. Mr.. Reed, Jacob
Hab, Mrs. Eib, Mr.. Hale. Burton Des-
pard, William Thrailkill, Mr.. Roach
and a few more. Col Wall was a very
clever man and got over SIC worth Of
my drawings. Your name Is not on
my book and have no recollection
Of any one of your name. But If any
OF those that have named are still
there, show them this letter, and tell
them that / should be much pleased
70 hear from any Of them. There is
nothing gives me greater pleasure
than to meet with, or even hear from,
the friends Of my early days.
And Il this story is awkwardly put
together It must be attributed to the
( fact that the writer was born in 1907,
+ In the baclwoods Of Ohio, the son OF a
poor man who had six boys and two
girls to provide for and educate; and
\ We had no schools, then, In that coun-
" until was a man, consequently |
4 never studied grammar a day in my
life. Therefore went out into the
world without dollar to take care Of
myself, a very awkward, ignorant
and bashful young man. After was
that ! was q natural Inner, and that
III could make more with my pencil
than 1 couldiin any other way. So I
forced myself out, in spite OF my diff
Adence and travelled from town to
& town until l wis "a years old and had
stopped in 1870 towns, staying from
one to SIX to eight weeks in a place.
y In 1894 went east ON the National
\ pike, got to Winchester, va, In the
z fall, where wintercd and started
west the next spring. stopping in
Mporeheid, the comfy seat OF Hardy
county, Va, where staid two monrns
aemoag the most liberal. lospitable
eocial people found in all my travels
7 Lett doorefield on the 2Sth OF July. for
the west. but found no place worth
stopping in until got to Clarksbure-
west Of the mountains, where / staid
satout one month. Now, right here,
after all these prelinlinaries. COM
n1erces my most singular story
4 After being in Clarksburg a few
daynl went to church on Sunday.
There were two doors Of entry. /
went alone and went in ut the right
hand door. passed up the aisle over
i ,sH way to the pulpit and turned in
Ito an empty seat at the right, went
10 the back end of the seat and sat
sgainst the wall. so that very slight
turh of the head could let me see
.eyery one coming in at both doors.
Soon ] noticed two we'll dressed young
= dies coming up the aisle towards me
4 and die one next me WIS gazing at me
h ~ . most unnatural manner. and heA
Y face turned white as sheet / was
frightened for II seemed as II had
somethirg TO do with her excitement.
he other lady turned into scat on
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