The Blount County News-Dispatch, 28 Sep 1893 They Are Gone. A man elopes with his brother's wife and is making for Oklahoma. Samuel D. Smith, a well-known man, who was born and reared near Oneonta, mixed himself up yesterday in quite a sensational affair. Smith is apparently about 45 years of age and has a wife somewhere near his age. Together they lived and prospered for years past and gone. For some time past, it is said, he has been quite intimate with the wife of his brother, and it is also said that this intimacy had been noticed by many. Yesterday he purchased tickets reading from Oneonta to Oklahoma, and departed for that place on the Louisville & Nashville south bound passenger train No. 3. The affair has created quite a sensation, owing to the prominence of both parties. The woman with whom he left for Oklahoma is about 30 years old and very good looking. The couple are now speeding away to a land where they think living is easier and money more plentiful. Smith was in good circumstances, and left everything behind to his wife and children.-Birmingham Age-Herald, of September 21st, 1893. The above is about correct. Smith is 50 odd years old; both resided near Balm, nine miles east of Oneonta. The woman is the wife of the Rev. John Smith-Editors.