Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — GONE WITH THE HIRED MAN. [ARTICLE]

GONE WITH THE HIRED MAN.

The wife of F. O. Gray, a farmer residing a few miles south of Mt. Ayr, left her husband’s abode last Saturday in company with a former hired hand of Gray’s named Shuck, who has made his home at or near Rensselaer with relatives. The trouble is said to have been brewing for some time. Gray became aware of the way matters were going and ordered Shuck to leave, but the woman insisted that if he was to leave she would leave also. He then told her to go, that he would haVe nothing more to do with her, and the pair left. The Democrat is informed that Gray married the woman, then a girl only about 16 years of age, in 1891 or 1892, and that this is not the first trouble of the kind he has had; that he has moved from two or three towns and finally upon a farm, in the hope of keeping the wife from forgetting her marriage vows and for the purpose of removing her from the scenes of their former domestic troubles. He is said to be an honest, straightforward, hard working man, and has done everything, possible to make their home life pleasant. He has at last given up all hope of his wife’s reformation and washes his hands of her. Gray wishes to notify persons not to trust his erring wife on his account, as he will pay no bills which .she may contract. The parties are now said to be somewhere in the vicinity of Rensselaer. Shuck is said to be a mere boy, being only about 18 years of age.