Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — DEATH AROUSES MEMORY. [ARTICLE]

DEATH AROUSES MEMORY.

Rol>ert Louis Stevenson's Widow Faithless Wife of Carroll County Man. The Journal-Tribune of Logansport says: “The death of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, widow of the famous novelist, who died at Monticello, Cali’., Wednesday, recalls to many people of White and Carroll counties the tragedy. j of which She was the cause. ’ . Site Was .Miss Fannie ■Vandegriir, daughter of Jacob Vandegrift of Indianapolis and later of Delphi, Ind. .Site was the first infant baptized by Henry Ward Beecher when the famous preacher was pastor of one of the Indianapolis churches. “At Delphi she met Samuel A. 6s. borne, nephew o f the late Dr. James Stewart of Delphi. Osborne.' who was one of tlie earliest and most efficient stenographers in the country; married her and they removed to California. She had two children by Osborne and took theni. abroad to educate them.

“While abroad she met Stevenson, the novelist, and fell in love with him. She returned to California and informed her husband tha* she had met a man she loved more than she loved him and asked to be freed. “Osborne's reply was that his vise would not find him standing in the way of her happiness. He left the house and was never seen again. A letter from him written to relatives in Carroll county merely mentioned that his wife had been stolen from him and she was party to the theft.”