Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — A Wealthy Widower Marries Unknowingly His own Daughter. [ARTICLE]

A Wealthy Widower Marries Unknowingly His own Daughter.

It Would Fr , currenco «• 1 V ,nl frequent opIhCte is ' ■* *'e»«ftablc incidents, tjiat "TDid » certainly nothing of'an improbajg>- ualqre, judging from the following «J.*/ Bffapge 'and hardly' credible *^y , wbftSh came to our ears a few days Im the spring of 1849, when the gold w VYer was at its highest possible state of fn Cl cu n ' en^.* r ‘ .California, there lived in , bf Virginia, on the banks of the lock r’.vet, a few miles below Yorktown, € e ’-iitlrman of- culture, whose parents Y'- 1 ?’ jn moderate circumstances. It -as during the gold-excitement he left the comforts of a home, his friends, relatives, a kMrig wife, whom he had led to the altar but a year since, and an only child—a daughter two months—and took up * Journey to seek his fortune, in jnlhfcWldd,‘distant West, over and beyond »the Rocfcy Mountains, where the bright golden sun pinks down to rest amid ’the blue waves of thegrand Pacific. After wars of toil, drudgery, and reverses of fortune in the mines, he came to this city and engaged in business. He, being successful, soon amassed an imT'.’ rtune - r> His beloved wife had died'during a prevailing epidemic While *san a visit to seme relatives during the y* yellow fever season at New Orleans, as at 4.. W same time did a little girl of another »■- family, of the same name and age as his f *L tt, . e A fll, ? hter ' He visited the States, but M JpbJW nnd no clue to his deceased wife’s wstet; he thought, naturally, she, too, •'had died. He returned to the Golden time and the whirling exciteijuent of business soon healed his sorrows, .xambeflaced. apparently, all recollection of ' 'Yd k h ° me 00 the banks of the plttcid nft ? r the completion of the Paerfrc ratlroad there arrived at this city a gentleman, his wife, and a beautiful, * well educated, and graceful young lady, • oon V, Dg ‘ nto maidenhood, Bpparent- ** rc hfrout eighteen summers. It *’ was by chance the young lady and aged m t ,t ~ an<l - to meet was to love. after a short ao * i 1 ; ,ne ooremouy being celebrat- • f.-i’nc edat, and creating no little , rer .n fashionable and wealthy clr“A. ototiy city; The fact tlfitt'hoth- £? *)jtrti«s boro .the same 'Christain nemo excited no comment or inquiry, as it was one almost quite as common as that of Smith gr Brown. +’-A few weeks after the marriage, M the husband and wife.naturally inquired into • fP 1 * 1 °' , *‘ cr ' s P fts l history and antecedents, end were gradually becoming better Res’ ■ quainted with each other, the denouement y J-came—they were father and daughter WraMuco Tribune, March 8A