Show a r. r r. r I K 1 Wife's Grave His is Dining S Table t. t r Such was his devotion to lo his wife that since she died a year ago Joshua lamereaux has bas eaten all his meals at the side of her grave There he was found yesterday overcome by the cold and exposure and aud he Is now dying at t his u 0 S home I Lamereaux Is 80 years old and and sixty-one sixty years ago he married Edith Edith I Simpson In all the sixty years of their their married life they were never neve ftp apart rt I more than four hours bours Lamereaux owned a farm near Ceases Ceases Ceases' Mills 1 Luzerne county and and he and and his wife worked it it- together They had no no and i I lived their raU rather er solitary lives with the greatest satisfaction and S happiness A i sear ear ago she was stricken with apoplexy and died suddenly Her loss so af af the ol old man that for two days after the funeral he wandered about heedless of all who died to comfort him Then he was impressed with the Idea that if he was wa's sep separated rated from his wife wite in body he would not be in spirit and he resolved to keep up the custom of all aU their sixty years of married narried life by taking each of ot the meals with her at t t the e side of the graVe This he lie has done every day since He would put up his meal In a basket hasket at his home The cemetery Is half a mile mUe away but whatever the weather the old man would walk S S His friends an ana reIa relatives ves made no objection lo to this while the weather was warm Maim and pleasant but as winter came on they tried to dissuade the old man He would not lIsten listen to th them m however In the bitterest weather w of of the winter he was too feeble to go three times a Jay Hay but he never neg neglected to go once and when wren he could not dine t there ere three times b between sunrise and sunset sunset he was very despondent S S S I d a I ft Fl 9 SU S He lie had placed a little box at the Uie grave side to while he ate and when the snow was on the ground he shoveled a path to to the graveside There he would sit in contemplation silently eating and then return to his lonely I home S Of late h he has has become so so 50 feeble that It was all ail he could do to reach the cemetery but he he ie would not stay away Yesterday morning he was late in ingoing going In the the- afternoon someone saw him lying on the grave He had fainted S He was wa taken home and It was found that he was partly frozen and very weak His great age makes it Improbable that he will re recover New Nev New York k Herald |