River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-15
ECCENTRIC BOB TooMBs.
A Favorite Granddaughter Cut on
for Marrying the Man OF Her Choice.

A Favorite Granddaughter Cut OF
for Marrying the Man OF Her Choice.
Atlanta Constitution. W.
Our reporter met an old friend of Gen.
Toombs on Wednesday and remarked,
81 understand that few days ago Gen
eral Toombs disinherited his grand
daughter, Miss Dubose, because she
married against his will. Don't you
think he will reconsider this act?"
"I do not. was the emphatic reply.
General Toombs is very bitter on that
point, and wnen think of all the cir
cumstances am sure that he means all
that he has done, and that he will re-
main immovable." =
'Tell me the circumstances"
'It is a long story" replied the narra-
tor. sit would read like romance If
properly pictured, but | don't mind tell
ing if you will be content with facts mi
nus the coloring. 1t is a sad story to me,
because | always felt an interest in the
lordly Georgian and the different mem
bers of his family. | was sorry that Gen
eral Toombs has done this act. He can
afford to forgive his granddaughter and
bestow all his hate on the Yankees, ifhe
choose to do so. He can afford to late
the Yankees for it is matter of little
concern what one man does so long as
the balance of the south has accepted
the situation and almost forgotten that
there ever was q war. But it is not for
me to say that General Toombs has done
wrong in disinberiting his grandchild be-
cause she married the man of her own
choosing. Miss Dubose and Mr.. Colley
were engaged and the General objected.
Mr.. Colley is a worthy young man
against whose moral character no charge
can be brought. He wasa clerk in one of
the stores in Washington, and was not
wealthy, but to that fact General Toombs
did not object. The general, you know,
cares for long line of acestors, and
blood, and that sort of thing, which lsaE
right suppose. At any rate, he did not
like the Colley family, and he urged his
grandchild to give up the idea of marry
ing Mr.. Colley. She pleaded and he re-
monstrated. He threatened and she be.
came determined. Finally he told her
that in his will he had beQueathed her
$50, 900, and spoke ofthat to show the in
terest he felt in her. She
would not promise to give up
Mr.. Colley, and General Toombs
got out the will and showed her the para
graph WIEN luc lOlbutC was lOlb W lSI'
She was not to he moved. He offered to
make 1t $4,000. She said she would
promise not to marry Colley during
Toombs lifetime. The General, in his
usual way, said he would pay nobody to
postpone an act until his death. He
threatened to disinherit her but she never
moved from her position. Then General
Toombs told her that unless she promised
not to marry Colley he would have his
will changed and would not leave her
cent. She replied that if she must choose
between the two she would be disinher-
tied. The General then told her that he
would give her forty-eight hours to leave
the house. Miss Dubose proceeded to
show her grandfather that if she was
driven out she would have to be
married at once. The General
tore around. and Miss Dubose
communicated with her friends, and the
result was that the marriage took place
that day. General Toombs took his will
ont, had it changed, disinheriting Miss
Dubose, and added paragraph provid-
ing that none of his property should go
to her directly or indirectly"
elias she ever been back to her grand
father" "No. A few days ago Mrs.
Toombs was very sick, and her recovery
was not expected. Mrs. Colley wrote
the General note, and asked permits
sion to call and see her grandmother.
General Toombs read the note, and
handed it back to the messenger with
the simple statement that he had no COM
munication to make. That is the story
as it comes to me-"