People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — BROTHER AND SISTER. [ARTICLE]

BROTHER AND SISTER.

|ut They lljdr't Ki«o<v It Until Theiy | Thirty-ninth Wcdtling Anniversary. The v illage of Mulvane, a few miles J; south of Wichita, Kan., is stirred up t over disclosures brought to light on the i occasion of the thirty-ninth wedding an- ; niversary of Peter Wilson and wife .a few days ago. Their nine children and ‘ : i several grandchildren were present, with ■’ many neighbors. In the company were Isaac Ashton, * foster father of Mrs. Wilson, who wsia4 en route to Oklahoma, and Robert Wil- • son, foster father of Peter Wilson, who lived in a neighboring county. The men < were neighbors 40 years ago, but had j not seen each other since. Their reminiscent talk brought outjg the fact that in 1838 Alexander Taylor, y. his wife .and two children located in > Richmond, Ind., having moved there ; from Noble county, O. Taylor went as ? a volunteer to the Florida Indian war and died while on the expedition. Mrs. Taylor died soon afterward, leaving her children, Peter and Rachel, 6 and 2 years old respectively; to the care of strangers. Isaac Ashton and Robert Wilson had been friends of the Taylors. ' Ashton adopted Racllcl and Wilson adopted Peter Taylor Ashton moved to lowa soon 4 afterward, and Wilson went to northern Missouri They never spoke to the chil- - dren of their antecedents, and they grew up to e-onsidor they were the children'of their respective foster parents. '-’AI When later Wilson was 17 years old. j he went to Sioux City. la., to learn the carpenter « trade, and at a temperance meeting ho met Ttachel Ashton, who. was visiting her foster aunt, They became sweethearts, and three years later were man", d. They .'I in Sumner county, Kan., where they have always been highly respect fl They have nine children. Three children are deaf mutes, and two ~ others ore defcimed. All are mamedj except one of the deaf- mutes and two of iiie y i r .-'.’ildren. Petal Wus n swooned when he heard ' the old neighbors’ talk, and for a tfr*a»j he was thought to be dead, but h- v>X Tcv---. -!. .-nd Lis wife ;.re alqjfflWß crazed with grief.-