Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Married After Thirty-four Years of Separation. [ARTICLE]

Married After Thirty-four Years of Separation.

The Louisville Courier-Journal of a recent date says: A wedding of a very romantic character occurred in this city yesterday morning. It was the denoument of a courtship thirty-four years ago—a happy consummation of & youthful love —showing how incurable are the wounds invisible that love’s keen arrows make. Dr. Joseph R. Smith, now on a visit to Louisville, is a wealthy merchant and influential citizen of Elyton, Ala. When quite a young man he loved a young lady in another State, and in return received the most undying assurances of her affection toward him. But fate intervened. Circumstances of a peculiar nature prevented tlieir union, and after the first pangs of disappointed love were passed, both were married and went their separate ways with their companions. A few years later they lost sight of eaoh other, but never forgot their youthful attachment. The lady married a gentleman named Kilpatrick, with whom she moved to Missouri. A few years ago her husband died, and abouttwoyears ago Dr. Smith became a widower. A few weeks ago he resolved to take a trip north in search of his boyhood sweetheart, whose place of residence was unknown to him. His first stopping place was Louisville. Arriving here Tn the early part of last week he took a room at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and commenced looking after, some business among the merchants. Two days after his arrival, while looking over the hotel register, Dr. Smith, to his great surprise, read the name of Mrs. Kilpatrick from Missouri. He sought an interview at once, and for the first time in thirty-four years beheld his old-time sweet heart. The rest of the story is of necessity brief and already anticipated. At nine o’clock yesterday morning Dr. Smith and Mrs. Kilpatrick quietly left the hotel in a hack together and drove to Chestnut street Methodist Church, where they were married in the presence of a few friends, who had gathered there by invitation of the groom, Rev. Dr. Lynn, pastor of the church, performing the ceremony.