Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
THE WIFE OF NINE HUSBANDS
A Mueh-Married Woman of Sumn,.
 County, Ohio.

F Cynthia Boardman was first led ss
 blushing bride. to the altar tbjrtv- s-4 years ago. William Rawlings. ski,-,' of 2 cansl-boat, was the happy msr
 He did not live to enjoy his good fa. tune, for one bright May day. just as prosperous freiRhting season had ora,.5 Capt. Rawlings mule kicked him in,r io'S ditch, and he sank beneath the mTSs. waters of the raging" not to rise ss,.!i until elevated by means of stone S-l rick. The widow, after 8 proper sass-- of mourning was again wOed, and Y. tached her fortunes to those of Ha," Ladd, whom she had employed ,o =! the boat after Rawlings fatal bs.I One night Ladd was swept of the bn-.- cane deck by bridge north of the Rai hvsr level and the mules went in,o S.- are without a man at the helm. n boy, who slumbered as he rode b-I not missed the commodore, and pot n. til the ditch was dragged two days ls,.. vas the question as to his mode of 5- parture settled. Mrs. Ladd shortly 'g terwards went to western Pennsylvs,;- to visit a relative, and while ther- -'a wa' married to John Henderson, a coora. The tHted John made but few ba--si. afterward, and in two short months S:s grave was seeded down. The -si-.. concluded her visit and returned to b.' Ohio home. William Johnson vss 5s. next candidate. He was accented s.5 survived for q period f nine wears T- was buried at Hudson, and Mrs. Job1 son, undIsmRyed by the decay of bs. previous hopes, was united In ma-ris,,. 10 one James Dixon of Shalersv1.l4 g. sold the canBl-bOat, which had b,eor-e rather ancient, and with the proo.-5- of the personal estate of Jobpsor bought the farm which Mrs. Over ro- culrivates. James soon iclovs5 his predecessors and became membs. of the an .elic choir. After follov-r. him Co his grave, the bsre;t wife ,,s5s another iOnrney tO Pennsy lvania, wbs-s she changed her name to the no-s sr
 phonius Maybury. The happy hal. moved to Indiana Wabash acue sfo1J the life out of Mir. Jacob Maybary iT four years, and his wife returned ,- Summit county ID time tO console Jsb, Ladd. one of her first series of br5tbs-.- in-law, for the death of his second me-. ital venture, by marrying him herself This, added to hIs grief was tol mnc, for John, and he remained only .T weeks. For four years, Mrs. LaIl ls- mented, and then, her love of mariner. returning, she became the wife of A-. drew TiptOn, who ran on the short trad. between Cleveland and Bedford. Ti- days of the doomed Tiptou passed swil,. ly by, and m the wear 1876 be went n. that bourne whence tow and heel path likewise sluices and waste gates are mn. known. The Widow Tiptou wrnr bsrE to the farm and started Q yonthful srt. ist On the road to fame an atli lsncs by giving him an order for the pictures of her husbands. The contract Was taken at wholesale rates, and the muusy fo- which ilptOn's boat was sold settled the bill. Surrounded by the counterfsIt presentments of her beloved Gesd. tb. frequent widow. whO had never been mother, waited for the next candidatet1 come her way. sDyer was blown in by the heavy storm of 1880. He was mi so popular as many of her former hus- bands 'but' said Mrs. D., "I was gattin' too old to be partick'ler, and took him
 He don't appear in good health" ventured the reporter, as he arose Co leave, casting compassionate eve on the devoted Dyer, who was wrestling with a scythe in the rank first growth.
 "NO, George sin't overly stout, and reckon his pieter'll soon go along With he rest on 'em," replied Mrs. Dyer. glancing proudly at the crayons which surrounded the roOm.-Cleveland Her Rld