The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-31
MARY HOPKJNS'S RECORD.
A Wyoming Woman Who Has Been Married
Seven Times and Never Divorced.

LANDER, W. r., Aug. 29.-In the spring of
68, on the Cache la Poudre river, in northern
Colorado there was married Miss Mary Hopkins
to Mr. James Theobald. The bride was barely
sixteen, and no one who witnessed the wedding
would have guessed that she was to soon
develop an absolute mania for the marriage
ceremony; and yet so it was. The bride of that
day is now living with the seventh man who has
responded with her to the marriage service, and
every one of these seven men is to-day alive and
well, and from none of them has the woman
been divorced, while the ceremony in every case
has been duly performed by justice or
preacher
A few short months satisfied Mrs. Theobald
that her husband did not suit her, and soon his
place was vacant The sound of his retiring
footsteps had scarcely died away before his wife
began to make preparations for a new marriage.
III the neigh borhood was young man by the
name Of johnson, and to his assistance Mrs.
Theobald appealed. They went to Paramount,
in the same State. and were there married be-
fore justice of the peace. AS long as the recol
lection Of the ceremony lasted. it was honey
moon for the renewed bride, but when that fond
remembrance began to fade she began to plot for
its revival johnson went the way of Theobaid.
and then the fair enthusiast paid visit to the
town of Loncmont Here she found man
| named Davis ready to further her views. The
again the words of the marriage
ceremony fell like sweetest music
well remembered upon her ear. The
happy man and his bushinc bride decided to
seek home further West, and they came to
Lander. arriving In the fall of '73 BY the fall
of IA Mrs. Davis had become aware that the
time for another marriage service was rapidly
approaching. MIR. Davis returned to Colorado to
look after business matters. They very
important for he is looking after them yet. Mrs.
Davis selected as her partner in the blissful
time coming private soldier of the neighboring
garrison at Fort Washable. The chaplain per-
formed the ceremony, and Mrs Cox leaned
lovingly upon her soldier spouse, radiant with
the peculiar joy of the occasion. Time passed
on, and the company to which Cox belonged was
ordered to duty at another point He went
but little. The desire to hear the matrimonial
formula again asserting itself in terms that
could not be stilled
Returning to Lander Mrs. Cox looked about
her with eyes OF a cOnnOIsseur. and speedily
pitched upon robust and well.to-do young
ranchman by the name of Reed as her next con
ductOr along the enchanted path. The burly
raLchman was nothing 10th, and the loving
twain wended their way to the nearest justice
and were quickly made one All went well until
the insatiate demand for another wedding was
again listened to- Petty annoyances were re-
sorted to, as usual to induce Reed to go, but
this time the husband proved obdurate, and a
pitched battle was necessary to open his eyes, OF
rather only of them, for blow from the
lady's fist Theoretically closed the other, as to
the kind of woman he had married. In place Of
his going, however. the order was reversed and
she went taking with her the ranch hired man
The happy fugitives made for the Big Horn
country, and the report Of their marriage there
has just been received.