San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-16
MUCH.MARRlED.
al. woman who has had Nine Husbands-Fair
pV'' Prospeets OF the Tenth.

hL'' ,hree miles from Peninsula, n
'OVa; pun ON the Valley road. 1t is n
'la a,tsr of common report in the neigh
naN,hood that the lady has been bride
Oi a;ue separate and distinct occasions.
o. matrimonial reporter of the Her.
Ivy ~ started forth to seek out and inter-
az ~ tbis polyandrous wife. A few
peS, Questions of Peninsula citizen
SpllO u, out the desired pointer con-
m S";ng the habitation of Mrs. Dyer,
ret aa drive of twenty-f five minutes took
' aps seeker for truth to her door. The
un,s 60 is weather-beaten old structure,
.s;it on the ancient plan with the side.
tu. u the road and the door midway
s.tween the ends. opening into the
Company" room. Mrs. Dyer, who re-
landed to the rap, was not the vision
S,FIoveliness the young man had trav-
lied twenty-five miles to see. She is
ssnnarently about sixty years of age
~ reyact data on this point were OBJ,
ts;ned-and looks as if she would COM
iortably survive her last annexation
, D"d acquire tenth the more especially
as MFR. Dyer is not extremely stalwart,
and liable to chip out of the game at
any, time. AS was intimated, there is
nnibing surprisingly beautiful about
Mrs, Dyer, She does not impress one
IS being possessed of sufficient attract
ireness to beguile more than two men
into matrimony, yet before the inter
low was ended she exhibited seven
marriage licenses and two certificates,
which serve much the same purpose as
40 abstracts of title where real estate
is transferred, preserving the lady's
IDENTITY, The presence of the two GER
ti6cates she explained by informing
her caller that she had married two OF
tbe deceased in Pennsylvania, in which
state no license is required. In the
conversation the young man was given
A brief biographical sketch of every
one of the eight who had gone before,
The recital being illustrated with the
PORTRAITS of the gentlemen. b..
CYNTHIA Boardman was first led to
the altar as a blushing bride thirty live
wears ago. William Rawlings, skipper
Of q canal boat, was happy man. He
did not live long enough to enjoy
his good fortune, for one bright May
day, just as prosperous freighting
season had opened, Captain Rawlings
lead mule kicked him into the ditch,
and he sank beneath the muddy wa
tiers of the "raging," not to Use again
until elevated by the means of a stone
derrick. The widow, after a proper
season of mourningl was again wooed.
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 Boliver level, and the mules
went into Navarro with no man at the
helm. The boy, who slumbered as ne
rode. had not missed the Commodore
and not until the ditch was dragged
two days later was the questisn as tc
the mode of his departure settled. Mrs
Ladd shortly afterwards went to West
ern Pennsylvania, and while there was
married to John Anderson, a cooper
The fated John made her but a few
barrels afterwards, and in two short
months his grave was seeded down
The relict concluded her visit and re.
turned 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, undls'
mayed at the decay of her previous
hopes, was united in marriage to one
James Dixon, of Shalersville. He solo
the canal boat, which had become rath.
er ancient, and with the proceeds anO
the personal estate of johnson, bongh'
the farm which Mrs. Dyer now Guilt
Yates. James soon followed his pred
ecessors and became member OF TIT
angelic choir. After following him tt
the grave, the bereft wife made anothe'
journey to Pennsylvania, where sh
changed her name to the more eupho
NOUS Maybury. The happy pair move'
to Indiana. Wabash ague shook TIT
life out of Mr.. Jacob Maybury IN fou
years, and his wife returned to sum
nit county in time to console JOIN
Laid, one other first series OF brothers
in-law, for the death of his secon'
martial venture by marrying him her
self. This, added to his grief was to
much for John, and he remained oni
six weeks. For four years Mrs. Lad
lamented, and then, her love for mar
ners returning, she became the wife G
Andrew Upton, who ran on the shol
trade between Cleveland and Bedford
The days of the doomed Upton passe
swiftly by, and in 1876 he went to tina
bourne whence toe and heel path, IKE
wise sluices and waste gates are ur
known. The widow Upton went 6ac
to the farm and started a youthiU
crayon artist on the road to affiuenc
by giving him an order for pictures
her husbands. The contract was take
at wholesale rates, and the money ic
which Tipton's boat was sold settle
the bill. Surrounded by the counter
felt presentments of her beloved dea'