Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — FINDS HIS WIFE ANOTHER’S. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FINDS HIS WIFE ANOTHER’S.

Romance in Real Life Like the Story of Knoch Arden. A romance in real life equaling that of Tennyson’s famous “Enoch Arden” recently reached its climax in Narrows

township, Macon County, Mo. About forty years ago Mark Summers, a respected citizen of that township, joined the Confederate army, leaving his happy home, and for four years fought bravely. Mrs. Summers was a Northern sympathizer and told her husband when he left homo that if

he ever donned the gray he need never return. The old man took his wife at her word, though she says she never meant it, and at the close of the war settled in Mississippi. ♦ In about five years Mrs. Summers was married to a Mr. Stanfield, and after his death a few years later to Mr. Cochran. A few weeks ago Summers wrote to his son, who answered the letter, and soon after Mark Summers came to visit his children. He found the wife of his youth another man’s wife, his sons and daughter the fathers and mother of grown sons and daughters.

MARK SUMMERS.