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Show I STEPSON IDS I HIS STEPMOTHER iB'.vj ; He Becomes the Stepfather of B j Five Half-Brothers and If f! Sisters. M 11 J . i FAMILY SKELETON" OF LATE ;1 ; ij I ' PROF. RADGLIFPE SHOWN I jM i Wedding Takes Place on the 8th I ' 1 Inst., Pastor Buxton !j j ( Officiating. I r .j When ii stepson marries his 1 f I ) stepmother, what relation docs he 1 I ll, -r bear to Ills wife? ' i ml l -j- If ho has any half-brothers ir 5. tl , j sisters, do thoy become his stop- I ! ; ' -j- daughters or stepsons? .-I- f ' Married In Salt Lake City. Cinh. h : I r June S, the ltev. Albert Buxton of 4- fci! the Central Christian church offi- -- 1 li -J- elating. John H. Kadclirfe to Mrs. j Sarah rjadclltTe. ' " i ...... '; f j. ,j ' Seventy-two years ngo, on the Island ; !.! of Malta, Thomas Radcliffe was born. Mi) I Ho was educated for a musician, being jjj : jljj a pupil of such celebrated musicians as y I Lj,( ! Capriani Potter, Conybere and Dean : I Ji ; : Tfowsmi nf Chester "Ene-Lintl. He. be- i i . J . came an organist. He took front rank .jr ' among the organists of tlie old world, in ! where he lived and where he married, j m I ' and was the father of seven children, r H j !i ' Tie came to America in 1S7P, and was i'MT ' 1 one of re ""-dcrs t-'10 American ; mJ Guild of Organists, j In JSSO he came to Utah, and soon H ft after became organist in the Episcopal Hj . f , church, and later on organist of the Dj ii'- Congregational church, and it was un- II j; , i der lti? direction that the magnificent II' I '? 1 organ in that church edifice was con- II;,!- slructed. lie wns one of the leading 'm ! jf L musicians of Utah, and until failing i r " health compelled him to desist ho had ' ji j large classes bolh in Sal Lake and I, ll'i I Ogden. 1 jji its- 1 Jle was not only an organist and a m I pianist, but he was a composer, and t IP I1 J lie won the first prize in a contest of- ;! l 'f.i fcred by The Tribune for a State an- Jt Ijjl tliem. the most eminent musician. of if. the country approving his composition! 1 Jfe died af, the family residence on Jr ' 4 ' "East Brigliam street on January 5, 1906, IB MjVa Shortly after his death the family H, Vuj home on Brigham street was sold, but I.H vkjj no administration papers on the estato H IIT j were overtaken out. Why is unknown. If HMh wr Living with him when the end en me rcjraJ-jjjp was John II. RadelifiY, who was a son Kill ki ! a oril1cr uinrriagc in ICngland. ill If 1 Letter from His Wife. 'IK fill 1 After his death and funeral there wns 'III fiv whispered around that 0 he had left a rnilm l family in the old world. This was only Ell W 'n wn,?Pcr- however, and but little heed ill 1 was C'vcn it.tLater on, however, there Wrl. p S Avas received at the clerk's olficc in ' y Salt Lake county a letter. It was ad-Kl! ad-Kl! t ! 1 dressed to "The Public Administrator, Kl : ;j 1 Salt Lake City. l:tah. U. S. A." The I.! I postofificc authorities turned the letter HRj r oyer to the clerk of Salt Lake county. Bra ; The loiter is on file in the county Blw ' clerk !s office. It reads thus: I ,10 Ashbourne Road. Asrpiith Road, 1 1 J Uveniool. Knjrland. I j 1 .Sir: t am the widow of the late Thom- HlJR ' ' j as Rndcllffc, professor of music, who , If ' died January .". 190G. aped 70 years. IT i 1 , went by the name of Thomas Radcllfte H - In T.'fah. He deserted me and a family i" i : Keven in 1S70. and I shall be glad to B; ; ' , 1 know If he left any .'state and to 'whom. Hf ' Thanking vou In nntielpllon. I am. vonrs . ,i ' . . faithfully. "ELIZABETH UADCLIFTE. ! ! j V, April 10, 1P00. H I, ,'. County Clerk KIdredge replied that ! S no )iobate proceedings had been had H I iai in the ca?p up to that time. None has B.HI been had down t.o date, according to BlI ! ' ' tne rfcords, There is likewise no record H?l j in Salt Lake county that Professor Rad- Hfl t cliffe evi-r obtained a divorce from his Bl l j V wife in England, although that might B-l Vi ' have been done in some Eastern State, Villi 1 where he resided for a year before ho H'll r came to T'rah. H'lli Marries Her Stepson. HlH 1 1 On the Slh day of June, IMS. there H-ffl li was a marriage license issued by the (Ij. M elerk of Salt Lake county to John II. H;f I J?sdclifl'e. ageil fortv-si.v years, permit-Bk permit-Bk ' i ti" it him to wed Mrs. Sara It Undeliffe, Blr j , f,Cfid foitv-eiglit years, rrs. Kadclifl'e, llc "", tlio widow of Professor HlAlll" . T'lf groom. John IL Knd-Bltf Knd-Bltf U W t cliff e. was the son of Professor l?ad-yfi' l?ad-yfi' clilVe. rfnd presumably the son of the Biff! woman whom the professor deserted in K (nil'' England in 1870, whose letter is of rec-Bt rec-Bt 1 ord in the County Clerk's office. In Ball's1 other words, the stepson weds his slep-mWu slep-mWu ifw - ' ,no',nor' am' nor children, while his Bltil; , half-brothers and sisters now become Bill ft' ' his utepsons and daughters. BJI llli'' '',e cere10,iy performed by Al- Biilll;Mr l,err. ,uxio'n' pastor of the Central Hill'iE1 Chnstinn church, in the presence of Bj jiJf John Green and Edna K. Green. Hflljr Efforts to Conceal Marriage. Brjjf.jr Everything that could possiblv bo Bjrfll' : ''one to conceal the wedding froin the Bjj P- 'public records was done. Up until B : "Wednesdny afternoon the names of tjic Hll'Vs contracting parties had not. been un- Bllrwv tcrcd upon the indices of the county B!,l; clerk's office. The record, which should Bl t'fi have contained the names of the con-tracting con-tracting parties, was not filled out, but Bni instead a blue pencil line was drawn 'Ij through it. While the laws of Utah jjB t allow thirty days' time in which to B f'lfi mako a return of a marriage, the county B IJi. ofl'icials. uf. a rule, make the enir on B flr ,ne '""rriage license record when" the lj i marriage license is issued. Failure to . BS ''II s" ln's insinfo incensed Countv 1 (If. Clerk lildredgo. and it was with his t'M "id that The Tribune is enabled to clear mt tit.-? records and givo the public, the- in- jM forma Lion. 1 Ai The license had been returned by the a ofl'ieiating minister attested bv the Am witnesses'; Wliy the secrecy? iM The widow fu Englnnd will be ad- i'l yificrt by friends hem of the wedding, I'M which it i assumed that her own I, I lioy married the widow of his father, i'l -'iid thus becomes stepfather to his M:v 1m It-brothers ttnd sisters Complications ll':, "uy arise also over the disposal of the !! estate of Professor Kadcliffe. Mr. and f)B Irs. Kadclill'c reside at 251 East Fourth |