Anson County NcArchives News.....A Modern Enoch Arden 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank carolynshank@msn.com November 7, 2007, 5:51 pm Daily Charlotte Observer 1894 3 Mar 1894 A Modern Enoch Arden A Husband Lost for Sixteen Years Turns Up Again - His Wife Married to Another Man. Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer - During the year 1875 John Powell married Miss Georgia Ann Bailey, daughter of Mr. Ashbury Bailey, who lives near Wadesboro. Powell and his wife lived together for three or four years when suddenly, without warning, the man disappeared. For ten years after Powell's disappearance his wife remained true to him but as nothing was heard from him during all that time she resumed her maiden name and married again. In 1889 she married Jas. A. Dixon and has since lived happily with him bearing him several children. But the peace and quietude of Dixon's home was rudely broken in upon last week when Powell, the recreant husband, suddenly appeared on the scene. Powell claims that he has been in Alabama ever since he first left Anson, 16 years ago, but so far as we have heard, he does not offer any excuse for his peculiar actions. He claims that he did not know that his wife had married again until he was in half a mile of her home when one of her neighbors gave him the information. He appears to be very much disappointed and says that he came back after his wife as he wished to take her to Alabama with him. Powell visited the office of the register of deeds last Friday to look up the record of his own marriage and also that of Dixon, both of which he found duly recorded. During his visit to the office he requested Mr. Benton in a very serious manner to please tell him whose wife the woman in controversy was anyhow as he wanted the matter settled. He said that Dixon was willing to give her up but that Mrs. Powell or Mrs. Dixon, as the case may be, had a very decided predilection for Dixon and up to that time he had not been able to induce her to return with him to his Alabama home. Mr. Benton was not able to suggest a way out of the dilemma and the last news we have of the matter the woman was still Mrs. Dixon. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/anson/newspapers/amoderne25nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb