Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-04
nIrE HoNEYMooNs.
Possible Chances for Tenth-A Much
Married Ohio Woman.

/ udI4ltQ VIM WSAHSsAs
Mr.. Dyer's residence is situated about
three miles from Peninsula, near Cleveland,
2 station on the Valley road. It is mat
ter of common report in the neighborhood
that the lady has been bride on nine sep
arate and distinct occasions. The matri-
monial reporter of the Herald started forth
Yesterday to seek out and interview this
| polyandrous wife The house is aweather-
beaten old structure, built on the ancient
plan, with the side toward the road and
the door midway between the ends, open
| ing into the company room. Mrs. Dyer,
who responded to the rap, was not the VI
sion of loneliness the young man had ira
yeled twenty. five miles to see. She ID ap-
parently about 60 years of age-no exact
data on this point were obtained. she did
not impress one as being possessed OF sut-
! ficient attractiveness to beguile more than
two men into committing matrimony, yet
| before the interview was ended she exhlb.
| tied seven marriage licenses and two GER
| tificates which serve much the same pur-
pose as do abstracts of title where real
estate is transferred, preserving the lady's
identity. The presence of the two certif-
Gates she explained by informing her caller
that she married two OF the deceased in
Pennsylvania, in which State 10 license
was required. In the conversation the
young man was given brief biographical
sketch of every one of the eight who had
gone before, the recital being illustrated
with portraits OF the gentlemen.
Cynthia Boardman was fret led to the
altar as blushing bride thirty-tive years
ago. William Rawlings, skipper of canal
boat, was the happy man. He did not live
long to enjoy his good fortune, for one
bright May day, just as a prosperous
freighting season mad opened, Captain
Rawlings lead mule kicked him into the
ditch, and he sank beneath the muddy
waters OF the raging, not to rise again
until elevated by means Of a stone derrick.
The widow, after a proper season of mourn
ing, was again weoed, and attached her
fortunes to those of Henry Ladd, whom
she had employed to run the boat after
Rawlings fatal bath. One night Ladd was
brushed off the hurricane deck by bridge
north of the Bolliver level, and the mules
went into Navarro with no man at the
helm. The boy, who Numbered as he
rode, had not missed the Commodore, and
not until the ditch was dragged, two days
later, was the question as to the mode of
his departure settled.
Mrs. Ladd shortly afterward went to
Western Pennsylvania to visit relative,
and while there was married to John Hen
derson, a cooper. The fated John made
but few barrels afterward, and in two short
months his grave was seeded down. The
relict concluded her visit and returned to
her Ohio home. William johnson was the
next candidate. He was accepted and
survived for a period of nine years. He
was buried at Hudson, and Mrs. Johnson,
undismayed by the decay OF her previous
hopes, was united in marriage to one James
Dixon, of Shalersville. He sold the canal
boat, which had become rather ancient,
and with the proceeds and the personal es.
tate of johnson bought the farm which
Mrs. Dyer now cultivates. James soon
followed his predecessors and became a
member of the angelic choir.
After following him to his grave the be-
reft wife made another journey to Penn
sylvania, where she changed her name to
the more euphonious Maybury. The
happy pair moved to Indiana. Wabash
ague shook the life out of Mr.. Jacob May
bury in four years, and his wife returned
to Summit county in time to console John
Ladd, one Of her first series of brothers in
law, for the death of his second marital
venture by marrying her himself. This,
added TO his grief, was too much for John,
and he remained only six weeks. For four
years Mrs. Ladd lamented, and then, her
love for mariners returning, she became the
wife of Andrew Upton, who ran on the
short trade between Cleveland and Bed
ford. The days of the doomed Upton
passed swiftly by, and in the year 1876 he
went to that bourne whence tow and heel
path, likewise sluices and waste-gates, are
unknown. The Widow Upton went
back to the farm and started
youthful crayon artist on the road
to affluence by giving him an order
for pictures of her husbands. The
contract was taken at wholesale rates, and
the money for which Tipton's boat was
sold settled the bill. Surrounded By the
counterfeit preaentiments of her beloved
dead, the frequent widow, who had never
been mother, waited for the next candi-
date to come her way. Dyer was blown in
by the heavy storm of 1885, He was not
90 popular as many of her former husbands.
But, said Mrs. D., {" 1 was gettin' toe
old to be partickler, and l took him.
He doesn't appear to be in good
health, vntured the reporter as he rose
to leave, casting compassionate eye on
the devoted Dyer, who was wrestling with
a scythe in the rank first growth.
No; George amt overly stout, and 1
reckon his picter'll soon go along with the
rest on EN-. replied Mrs. Dyer, glancing
proudly at the crayons which surrounded
the room.-[Cleveland. Herald.