Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-24
EIGHTEEN HOURS A WIFE.
Young Lady In Hackensack Weds Her
Lover on His Deaihb-d.
New York Times.


New York Tines
The marriage Of Eva NJ. Hasbrouck
to George Ryerson Skinner had been
counted upon as one Of the social events
Of the winter in Hackensack, n. j. 1t
was TO have taken place early in the
new year, and the girls who were in
yited have been hurrying up their dress
makers in anticipation of it. In less
than a week all plans have been upset.
The marriage ceremony took place
under singularly pathetic circumstances
Monday afternoon, and last night the
young husband was in his coffin.
George Skinner was little more than
boy when his father, Judge William
Skinner, went to HackenSack from Sus-
sex county some yeas ago. But he
was nearly twenty-six years old when
he died, and had grown up to be very
popular young man. About three years
ago. when it was announced that he
was going to marry Eva Hasbrouck,
daughter Of the late DR.. Charles Has
brouck, everybody who knew them
said that it was very fitting and ex-
cellent match. Young Skinner had
established himself in the drug bust
ness there, and the prospect for
the future looked bright. Last Tuesday
evening George Skinner left his store
feeling unwell. DR.. Burdett, who was
called next morning, found him suffer
ing from pleurisy, but the illness was
not considered serious, and no change
was made in the arrangements for the
wedding. On Sunday night the young
mans disease took sudden and rapid
change for the worse, and Drs. Burdett
and st. John agreed in consultation
that be was dangerously i'll from ty-
phoid-pneumonia. When they called
TO see him On Monday morning he said /:
doctor, am going to get better or
not? Tell me. / am prepared to hear
the worst"
George" answered DR.. Burdett,
you are going to die"
"Shall live two days." inquired
the young man anxiously. The doctor
grayely shook his head.
lone day-twelve hours, them" he
asked as the physician continued to re-
spond in the negative.
"Six hours?" he said, quite star
tied at finding death so near.
Possibly answered the doctor.
When the physicians had gone and
the news had been broken to the fami-
" young Skinner sent for his betrothed.
In little while the Rev. Charles L.
Anderson, pastor Of the Hackensack
Presbyterian church, was called into
the sick-room to perform marriage
ceremony. The young man was too
weak to sit up, so Eva Hasbrouck sat
on the bedside and held his hand while
the minister read the service. Mr.. and
Mrs. Skinner and Mrs. Basbrouck were
in the room. 1t was very affecting
scene, but the young man SO soon
to pass away was the most tranquil
and resigned of all. He noticed
that the clock struck Just as the cere-
mony was finished. The patient re-
viyed little after his marriage, but it
only served to make his swift decline
after nightfall the more noticeable.
Early yesterday morning, before Eva
Skinner had been a wife eighteen hours
her husband died in her arms. The
pathetic romance is the talk of the town,
,, 1t was a case Of pure love, and th'
, death-bed marriage was mutually de
+, sired. The funeral will take place to
|, morrow afternoon, but the final services
prior to burial will be at the residence
Of the dead bridegroom's aunt, Mrs
!, Barrett, in Newton, Sussex county, OF
Christmas-day.