Show PATHOS IN REUNION Brothers Thought Each Other Dead for SixtyTwo Years They Meet In the Hoosier State for the First Time Since the Battle of Cerro Gordo In the Mexican War Nashville IndWhen Everett Johnson came hero from St Louis to visit his brother Charles the final chapter was written in a romance that was brought about by strange combinations and circumstances Their meeting here was the first since tho battle of Cerro Gordo in a mountain moun-tain pass of Mexico In 1847 and the fact that each thought tho other dead all these years made their meeting all the more remarkable Tho reunion of the twd aged brothers broth-ers was brought about by tho sweethearts sweet-hearts of their boyhood days Charles Johnson Is 81 years old and Everett I Is 80 It was in West Virginia their native na-tive state that the romance began There while the two brothers were still more lads they began courting two young women of their own age Miss Woods and Miss Asbury The two young women wero cousins This courtship lasted for two years nnd then came the call of the grout west The two brothers decided to leave their native state and go to Kentucky Shortly after tho war with Mexico broke out and they enlisted After many exciting experiences In which the two brothers wero ever ready to sacrifice for each other the eve of the battle of Cerro Gordo arrived ar-rived Before entering the battle each promised that In case either was Injured tho other would stay by him until he recovered or until death I relieved his suffering During the battle Charles was shot Everett saw him fall and helped carry him to the rear where the injured man fainted nnd it was thought ho was dying It was in the thickest of the fight and believing his brother dead Everett returned to the firing line Charles gradually recovered and after receiving his discharge went to Now Orleans whoct he engaged in business At the beginning of the civil war ho enlisted in the confederate confeder-ate army and at tho close he went to the southern part of Indiana whoro ho was married After his wife died a few years ago ho set out to find the sweetheart of his boyhood days Ho found that she was still in his native na-tive state that she had been married but that her husband had died a few years ago He went to West Virginia Vir-ginia and when ho returned ho brought hack a wife who was Miss Woods in tho days before the Johnson John-son boys left their native state After the Mexican war Everett Johnson went to California where he made his fortune in the goldfields gold-fields He married and was prosperous prosper-ous After his wife died lie removed to St Louis where ho met a widow Mrs Elizabeth Williams Ho found that Mrs Williams was once a resident resi-dent of his native town that she was once Miss Asbury tho sweetheart of his boyhood days Three weeks ago they were married at St Louis Through her Johnson learned that his brother was alive and that he had married tho onetime Miss Woods The meeting of tho two brothers was pathetic With tears streaming down their cheeks they kissed each other |