Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — BORN ON THE CARS. [ARTICLE]

BORN ON THE CARS.

A Delicate Girl Becomes a Mother Under Unpleasant Circumstances and Surroundings. a A marriage certificate signed by “John Buckland, minister of the gospel,” dated at Greenfield, Ky., September 15,1878, certifies that Mr. W. H. Byers, of Cincinnati, was married to Miss Louise S. Smith, also of this city on that date. The witnesses were John Buckland and Elizabeth 8. Buckland. Mr. W. H. Byers is the well known lumber merchant of Freeman street, of the firm of James Dunlap A Co. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Wm. B. Smith, generally known as “Policy Bill Smiih,” of 522 West Court street. The fact that Mr. Byers and Miss Smith were married over one year ago was not known to the parents or to the most intimate friends of both parties, until a few weeks ago. Some three or four months ago Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smith, in company with their charming daughter, Miss Louise 8. Smith, left their elegant and handsome home on West Court street for a tour of the northwest. Mr. Henry Byers had been a frequent visitor at the home of Mr. Smith for several months before the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their daughter for the west, paying devoted attention to Miss Louise. Mr. Smith had objected to the attentions of Mr. Byers to his daughter, not that he had anything Krsonal against Mr. Byers, but simply cause he thought his daughter too young to receive any attentions of a character looking toward marriage, and the attentions of Mr. Byers were of this nature. Mr. Smith had suffered greatly from the unfortunate marriage of* his eldest daughter, Mrs. Deshler, and was retuctant about giving his second daughter up to the uncertainties oj married life. The attentions of Mr. Byers upon their daughter, up to the time of Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s departure for the “far West” were not so frequent as to cause remark. But we are informed that Mr.

Smith had frequently said that his daughter Louise should never marry with his consent. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith and daughter Louise had enjoyed a pleasant and delightful visit of three months at San Francisco and on the Pacific Coast, and were started on their way home. Arriving at Denver City, Colorado, Miss Smith was attacked with severe pains and a deathly sickness at the stomach. A physician was called in and the parents were made acquainted with the fact that their darling daughter was about to tiecome a mother. Their surprise and grief was great, so great that Mrs. Smith was almost paralyzed with fllness aud compelled to go to her bed. However, wheu their daughter informed tnem that Mr. W. Henry Byers, of Richmond street was the rather of her child, and that they were legitimately married, aud had been tor over a year, the grief of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was, to a certain extent, alleviated; they were somewhat comforted. The daughter recovering sufficiently to travel with her mother, Mrs. Smith, she started for home, leaving Mr. Smith to attend to some mining business in Colorado. The doctor told both Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Byers that she (Mrs. Byers) could safely reach home before her labor pains would some on, but the doctor was mistaken. On Sunday morning last, as the St. Louis train was nearing the city, the young bride of Mr. Byers was taken severely ill, and by nine o’clock, when the train reached the city, was iu severe labor. At a few minutes after nine, while on the cars, she was delivered of a fine, healthy boy of eleven pounds. The physician who was called to the deliverance of Miss Louise M. Smith, now Mrs. W. Henry Byers, was, we are informed, Dr. McMeehan. The delicate and fair young mother was conveyed, upon the arrival of the train, with her bouncing boy to the home of her mother on West Court street, where she now lies kindly cared for by her mother and sister, Mrs. Deshler, and other kind friends! The mother and baby, we are glad to say, are doing well. Aud so ends our story of the romantic, unusual, but happy marriage of Mr. W. H Byers and Miss Louise S. Smith, of thracity. Their marriage was clandestine, but, now that it is made public to their friends and the world we hope that the congratulations of friends will be in order. —[Cincinnati Enquirer.