Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-01

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TO A THUNDERBOLT.
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The Virginia papers are filled with the
particulars of remaIk able marriage in
which the heroine or hero was former
Staunton. school gill. The groom was
Miss Ida Rebecca Payne who belongs
to one of the most respectable families in
Frederick county in this State. The fam
Owls one of the finest four hundred acres
farms in that county. After the civil
war closed M ISIS Ida, then about fifteen
years of age, was entered as pupil at one
of the female colleges here and took
the course of study at that college ard
returned home. She always remembered
her Alma Mater kindly and often returned
to Staunton to be present at its COM
mencements. When she went home from
her college course she opened school and
among her pupils was Mr.. Edgar Smith,
now clerk in our city. The news OF her
marriage, as groom instead of a bride,
created the greatest excitement in Fred
eriok, and the news WIS quickly commu-
nicaled to the frederick mel in Staunton,
of whom there are several doing business
here. MIR. S. D. Tlmberlake, father Of
Mr.. S. d. Timberlake of this city, writes
to his son that Miss" Payne with her
intended wife had just driven up in a
sleigh in front of his residence on their
way to get marriage license. The groom
| had a fine sorrel horse with buffalo robes
and the usual outfit for a gentleman TAX
ing lady out sleighIng. At the wedding
| the church was crowded, and among the
audience was Mr.. Ed Timberlake, for
/ merry of Staunton. The Wedding took
place at Payne's Chapel. Southern
! Methodist church in Martinsburg, on last
Friday and ID telegram says
This afternoon in the little brick
church at Martnsburg, w. Va, used by
the Southern Methodist congregation of
that town, two people were married. Rev.
John Landstreet. formerly chaplain of
JeD" StUartS confederate regiment of
cavalry. performed the ceremony. There
| was nothing peculiar about the affair,
except that both parties to the Contract
respectable women III that vicinity. The
groom. II such name be app. cable to the
| leading spirit III the transaction, has been
| known tor ten years in Martinsburg as a
woman of rect habits, modest demean-
or. and marked intelligence and ref re-
ment. His, or her, name is Ida Rebtcca
| Payne. Duilng the ten years ref FRED to,
Ida Rebecca Kept a little store in R-st on
the Winchester pike. There is no better
family in thai region than the Paynes
The mother was lett widow in comfor-
table circumstances some Years since aud
married again, bat subsequently separated
from her secund husband and she now
lives on one of tie best farms III Freder-
i! lex county, Va, NEAR the town of Rest,
before mrntlonrd. She Brought up seven
children successfully, four of whom mar
rIed prosperous farmers in the nelghbOr-
hood. Another lives at this time with her
mother. Still another conducts a flourish
lag school for young women near her
mothers home. and the remaining, Ida
/ Rebtcca, who from childhood eviuced re-
markable business taleut, has, from the
time of her attaining years of maturity,
ben engaged in commercial purpults No
one In that vicinity WAS more favoraby
| known than the last mentioned, the wO
man living quietly and attending closely
TO business, SO that her neighbors gradu
ally came to los upon the proprietress Of
| tie little store as an old mai0. Judge.
therefore. OF their establishment when. on
last Tuesday, Ida RIB cca appeared in
Martlnsburg, boldly announced her con-
version from the gentler to the ste ner sex
| purchased and artaytd herself in a suit of
masculine habiiments, il Guiding ii silk
hat and a pair of red topped boots, aud
| followed the performance by stating her
Intention to marry Miss Annie Hinton. a
lady who for years had been her associate
| in the town of Rest. In the explanation
furnished it was stated that there had not
been 2ny occasion to doubt her feminlnity
until about fortnight since, when sh e
was led to visit Drs. Mcclure aud Love
at Winchester.
IS these people. so strangely brought
together, stood at the altar TO-DAY Ida
Rebecca presented somewhat manly al
determined appeara, &c. II is hair was cut
and closely trimmed, and his radiant
c0untenance, guiltless of moustache or
whlskerS, looked positively handsome in
comparison with that OF his bride, who is
apparently two or three years older and
hardly as prepnssessing in personal ap-
pearance as her companion. The newly
welded pair will, after short visit
among friends and relatives, settle down
In their former home, and it is hoped will
enjoy present happiness indefnite while
at the same time continuing the present
striking illustration of the proverb that
fact Is stranger than hct on,
A CORE spondent of the New York
World, at WINCHESTER, Va, furnishes the
following additional particulars in con-
nection with the affair under date of Jan
uary Is:
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The mysterious parsonage known as
Ida Rebecca payne III this community,
but who now claims to be a man, reached
the village of Rest, near here, this after
noon with his bride, nee Anne Hinton.
Payne is of m 4dium build, and does not
look unhse n until he attempts 70
| walk or move Then his lack of famili
arity with male habi!im-nIs becomes ap
parent. tie were IA PLAIN gray pepper-and-
salt coat to-day. a black vest and black
trousers. The latter fitted cl ,srly to his
neither limbs, which are OF fire mould and
as delicately constructed and shapely as
those of female.
II really did not suspect my true sex,''
he said, until three OF four weeks ago.
when some casual remalk made by a lady
friend aroused nv suspicious Ithen de
termlntd to go TO DR.. Mcclure, of Win
chester, but did not infnrm him of nv
perplexi Y. After professional inquiry he
at once, but with much hesitancy, made
known my true sex. | suppose it was the
force of nature which impeled me to fall
in love with Miss Hinton, although |
meyer enulo understand che feeling which
my passion for her inspired when | llrst
LET her as servant in our family. and
was struck with her beauty and ladylike
bearing, and soon found that | thought
a great deal more of her than any one
else | knew
'Wil yon wear mans clothing hence
forth. Mr.. Payner" asked the correspon
dent.
"Of course l WILL" he responded, with