Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — APPEARS AFTER 20 YEARS [ARTICLE]

APPEARS AFTER 20 YEARS

Finds Wife’s New Husband In Prison— Johnstown Flood Romance. Bloomsburg, Pa., July 13. After more than twenty years of wandering, Rev. John Taggart, a Methodist minister, who was thought to have been drowned in the Johnstown flood of 1889, returned to his home here. Taggart found that his wife had married John Van Horn during his absence. She has a son seven years old and a daughter fifteen years old. Van Horn is in Columbia jail serving a sentence for a statutory offense. Taggart will take the woman and her children to another city.