Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — FIANCEE HIS CHILD. [ARTICLE]

FIANCEE HIS CHILD.

Photograph Leads to a Discovery and Ends an Engagement. But for an accidental discovery of his dead wife’s picture in his affianced wife’s photograph album, Adam Cordiff, a mid-dle-aged Ohioan, living near Hopedale, would have been married to his own daughter. He had arrived in Charleston, W. Va., to be married to the young woman, Miss Lucy Cole, and on the evening before the ceremqny was sitting with her looking at the portraits in an album. He was surprised into sharp exclamation by seeing the picture of his wife, dead for more than eighteen years. Miss Cole, noticing the exclamation, said: “That ia my mother; she has been dead many years.” In answer to Cordiff’s excited questioning the whole story came out. Miss Cole is not the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cole, with whom she is living. They adopted her when she was a little child, and she therefore took their name. She .paid she never knew who her father was and could not remember her mother. Her adopted parents were able to explain something of the story.