A FALL RIVER GIRL'S LUCK
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:40 pm
I came upon this article when I was researching Alice Russell. Her mother's maiden name was Manley and her family had married into Manchesters so the story piqued my curiousity.
The Isle of Shoals is made up of 6 island off the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine. Smuttynose is in the Isle of Shoals.A FALL RIVER GIRL’S LUCK
HOW SHE LOST ONE HUSBAND AND GAINED ANOTHER.
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 4.—The Black Hill’s daily Pioneer, of Deadwood, Dakota, of Dec. 21, 1886, announces the marriage of Charles Rosebrough and Mrs. Lizzie Manchester, and says the Mrs. Manchester name above is a native of Fall River, and has had quite an eventful life. Her maiden name was Manley, and in her young days she was a domestic in this city. She was wooed and won by a George Manchester, and for a time they lived happily together. As a result of their union two children were born. Matters changed in their marital life, and Mrs. Manchester obtained a divorce from her husband, she retaining the two children. As it was impossible for her to earn her livelihood with the children dependent upon her one of them was admitted into the Children’s Home and the other was adopted by a family named Prew. After finding places for her children Mrs. Manchester again took a situation as a domestic, and subsequently went to the Isle of Shoals as a table girl at a hotel. While at this place she formed the acquaintance of a retired gentleman from Illinois who was staying at the hotel for the Summer, and the acquaintance ripened into a promise of marriage. She then left the Isle of Shoals and came to this city to prepare to go West to be married, her affianced keeping her supplied with money for her outfit. She called at the Children’s Home and took out her child without informing the matron at the home, and a cry was raised at the time that a child had been kidnapped. Mrs. Manchester had been informed that her child was to be taken from the home and given to some family, but, wishing to have it with her in her prospective home in the West she made an unusual move to get the child away. Early in the Spring of last year Mrs. Manchester started for Illinois there expecting to meet her affianced and be married. When she arrived at her destination she found to her surprise that her betrothed had been dead for two days and she was only in time to witness his funeral.
After this disappointment, Mrs. Manchester decided to go further west and try her fortune and soon found herself in Deadwood city, Dakota, where she began dressmaking to earn a livelihood. Here she became acquainted with Mr. Rosebrough, a business man of Deadwood City, and the acquaintance ripened into marriage.
The New York Times
Published: February 5, 1887
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