From The Kansas Chief (Troy, Kansas), August 4, 1887, Page 3 --
News comes from Highland Station, that Jacob Gurwell and the wife of Milton Rawls eloped together, Sunday night, after being at the Eagle Springs picnic. They had been the subjects of neighborhood talk, for some time. Gurwell leaves a wife and children, and Mrs. Rawls a husband and children. Mr. Rawls was in town, Tuesday, getting out a warrant for the arrest of the runaways, he claiming to know their whereabouts.
Further research shows that the couple returned to their respective spouses and families, and remained there the rest of their lives. Personally, I don't know how you do that, just return back to normal like nothing happened? But that is just me. And times were different back then.
Jacob Gurwell was my g-granduncle, on my mom's paternal side.
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