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Show KKLUK CAWLIN3,' : ! DMd of a Broken Heart. ,10110 4, 1880. t t ( Affttl 17 Yetvrt. i . The after, of this ttrtuiffe Inscription pans out to be romanoe of the first water. Joseph Martin, the occupant of the claim whereon the grave is located, purchased . , the claim from the husband of the woman whose remains lie beneath that marble slab, and entered into an agreement with 1 the former owner of the claim that the slab should not be molested by him, and the following story is from Martin's lips : "When I struck the Territory five years j ago I looked around for a good place to lo- cate. I started overland from Big Stone City to Watertown, and when I reached this point I came across a homesteader wtto had turned sod on this claim. 1 found him alone, apparently broken down from some cause or another. I told him I was looking for a place to locate, and ho offered me his claim. He Insisted that I take it for nothing. noth-ing. He'd been on it for two years and wanted to so back East He was a Virgin- j inn, and wanted to return to the Old Do ruin- Ion. 1 flually agreed to take the claim, pro- I vMmg he'd accept a small amount in return. re-turn. He took me out to that grave on yonder yon-der rise and told me hi ncret. "In 1870 he married a Virginia girl born near Roanoke. The wedding took place at Philadelphia during the centennial, and the summer waa spent in sight-seeing and a pleasant honeymoon. She waa the dauirh- ter of a Mouth Carolinian, who, subsequent to the war, located 'in Maryland poorer by far than he was before the stars and stripe were fired on at Fort Bumter. Her maiden name was Nellie T. Pell, and the death of her father the year following her marriage wiped out the entire lot of her kinship. kin-ship. - "Cowlin and his bride came to the Northwest North-west and located here. While plowing one anting ha turned up some human bone. y No particular attention waa paid to them, V a he thought they were probably the 1 bone of some Indian, but with due rever-V rever-V enoe for humanity, Cowlin picked up the 1 bone from the furrow and rein terred them 1 below the plowshare'a searching; point. In removing the bones he noticed flnger-riug flnger-riug which had evidently been worn by the person whose bone he had discovered. After cleaning the dirt from the ring he noticed mark and letters thereon. The ring waa slipped on one of hi fingers, and be resumed hi plowing. At the dinner table bi wife noticed tbe ring, and he handed it to her for examination. Bhe took it, and in an instant turned dead-ly dead-ly pale and fainted. When she be " , came conscious she inquired where he bad got the - piece of jewelry, and be related the circumstances connected with its discovery. Hue gave way again and on recovering she explained the cause of her illness. The ring wu one pre nted ' by her to another suitor, a young college student to whom she had been betrothed. The symbols of a secret society to which he belonged were on the exterior of the ring, and 'N. T. P.,' her initials, to 'J. M. B.,' tbe j initial of hi name, John U. Sharer, were . ' on the inside, engraved there by her order when she purchased It for Christmas present for him. "Cawlln argued with her that probably the ring bad passed into the hand of seme one eUe, but she believed otherwise. Bhafer had gone to the Northwest and had never been heard from, and tbe bone un-j un-j earthed by Cawlin were, in ber opinion, undoubtedly hi. Her old love for her first suitor returned. Bhe became ill through constantly haying her mind on the ring ' matter, and ber death followed. Bhe had requested before her death that her remains re-mains be Interred at tbe spot where tbe ring was found, and that her grave be marked by a stone bearing the words vou've read. ' - "After Cawlin went East," said M artin, "be sent that slab, and I placed It on tbe grave. Idon't know what became of him, or whether he ia alive yet, but the way in which he brooded over this affair 'led me to believe that it wouldn't be many year before be-fore he'd need a gravestone, and one with an inscription similar tn hat one out there." - |