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SEPARATE?) BY A BLOOD TALS’l-Curious OuTflnmc of the Marriage of a Jovinsl\umsyJY«/ihi Couple-A year ago a prominent young mnn of Titusville who had peut a couple ofyear* in Hiohmoud, relumed lo hifather's home and introduced a* hie wue a beautiful young woman, A few weeks Hgu tho yucmg wife became a mutber. For four day* no one vuft permitted tu or*ter her room. The mother wn» not allowed to flow liOr offspring, tho roombeing kept dark. Too young husband finally demanded admittance. Then followed a startling development. He discovered that the child wan an undoubted negro. The indignation o£ the huband and his parents was terrible. The wife’s father was oommuuicated with, and a letter from that gentleman in a measure makes maltera plain. Briefly stated, the answer wa* this: Bessie, the young wife, was adopted when a child from an asylum in Richmond. About four years after the adoption the fooler parents accidentally heard that *bu girl whs the child of a ipiscegi'DOiH marriage. Nw trace of this was visibl« in the clnld, who was as whilehr any Caue«iHiHn. lh« secret of her lifeand tru« pa run tag o was never revealed to her, until now. Thu distinction of husband and wife is Yury pathutio. Family prido will not allow a continuance of ;ht marital relations, yt IhflT arc deeply at-rn/’Knfl t.rt H2r*h Other.
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Marshfield Times
Marshfield, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 04, 1888
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