Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-04
SEPARATION AND REMARRlAGE

The following story, told by the Chptte
Journal, possesses a local interest, Wh1the
leading facts narrated will be recalled byany
Of our readers
The marriage, or rather the remange,
Thursday night last, in Chester county, g.,
of VIM. Legg and Mrs Crawford, once fore
Mrs. Legg under coverture OF her spG- of
Thursday night, recalls the eircumstai IS of
one of the most celebrated scandals Opper
South Carolina.
VIM. Legg, horse drover and advelrer
from Tennessee, but wttiial r. man df -fnSnl
uatng address, was wont fifteen years ago tt
visit Chester in the pursuit Of his avocation
There he met Mrs. Crawford, a then comel!
widow with good jointure, two children
aged six and seven, and the prestige of con
llection with some of the Oldest and best fam
lilies of that part of the Palmetto State, boil
through her first husband, Crawford, and hel
own family, the Ingrams. The union of the
blooming young widow and the Tennessee
horse drover was happy one for several years
until the daughter of Mrs. Crawford, by hel
first marriage, was grown into charming
maidenhOod, and the son into bold and
promising youth, full of chimlric sentiment
and generous impulses. Mrs. Legg also be-
came the mother of two morechildren by hel
u.
ed that the father, Mr.. Legg, displayed an ex-
travagant fondness for his budding STEP
daughter. and again, and but little while,
the young girl exhibited unmstakabe indica.
tions of becoming a mother. Of course ter
rible uproar and scandal was raised, and the
result was that young Crawfrd, a boy hardly
old enough to hold his weapon to his shoulder,
shot the stepfather, making a severe wound
in the leg. Legg and the young girl then fled,
and were hOtly pursued by young VIM. Ingram,
a brother of Mrs. Crawford and Others of her
family, the hot-headed young Crawford being
himself placed under bond for the attack up
on the flying step-father. The latter was ap-
pretended with the young girl in Grenville,
S. c., before they were oVertaken by ihe pur-
SuerS.
Young Crawford was tried for his attack on
the step-father, and the famous JudgeMackey
presided at the trial. The verdict wa acquit-
tai, and it is said that Judge Mackeywas led,
off the bench, Of'course, to once OF tVlce ex-
press admiration rather than condemnation
for the act of the boy.
The father disappeared, but has ,een for
the last three years living, it IS knownln Oar
lngton county, South Carolina Adiyorce
had, of course, been obtained between Mrs.
Legg and her husband, and she has ben since
living with her children, including limbaugh
ter, Miss Crawford. in Chester count. The
boy Crawford, who so impulsively 'tacked
his stepfather, was sent some time ~ as a
student to Davidson College, in this county,
where he died, as will be well remnbered
here of typhoid fever. Miss CrawfoT is said
to have grown into handsome anunodest
wonlanhood. Six months ago IT became
known that the children of Mrs. Crrford's
union with Legg were in the habit otlsltlng
their father in Darlington, and the 1ghoors
began to predict a reconciliation aa|remar-
riage. This prediction was consumlted on
Thursday night, at the residence OF bride,
in Chester county. The officiating cgyman
was the Rev. Robt. Perry, well-kEn min
lister of the Presbyterian Church in nth Car
Olina