Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — A FEMALE HERMIT. [ARTICLE]

A FEMALE HERMIT.

End of a True Heart’* Devotion—A Pennsylvania Romance. A strange romance was ended by the death ot Mary Rets, who for fifty years led a lonely life because her parents forbade an early marriage. Her body was found Sunday in Abe little house near Stonersville, Pa. She was seventy-eight years old. When a girl she fell in love with a young man whom her parents did not admire, and they forbade a marriage. This broke Mary’s heart, and her home had no more charms for her. She preferred to live by herself, and she refused to accept the hospitality of friends or neighbors, saying that all the world was against her. Twenty years ago she moved into the little stone house, and after that she rarely saw anybody; Lost week a friend called and offered to help her in any way, but the aged lady refused aid. Her body was; discovered on her kitchen floor, Sunday, and S2O was found in the little house. .j