Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-11
Mania for Marrylng--A wyoming

Mania for Marrylng--A wyoming
Siren, Seven Times Married and
Never Divorced.
Special Globe-Democrat.
LANDER, wy. T., Aug. 25.-In the
spring of '69, on the Cache la Poudre
river, in Northern Colorado, there was
married Miss Mary Hopkins to Mr..
James Theobald. The bride was bare
ly sixteen, and no who witnessed
the wedding would have guessed that
sha was to soon develop an absolu tie
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 n Of
these seven men is to-day alive and
well, and from none of them has the
woman been divorced, while the cere-
mony in every case has been duly per.
formed by justices or preachers.
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 anoth-
er marriage. In the neighborhood was
ayoung mar by the mime of johnson,
and to his assistance Mrs. Theobald
appealed. They went to Paramount,
in the same State, and we're there mar
ried by a justice of the peace. AS long
as the recollection of the ceremony
lasted, it was honeymoon for the new
bride, but when that fond remembrance
began to fade, she began to plot for its
revival. johnson went the way Of
Theobald, and then the fair enthusiast
paid a visit to the town of Long
mont. Here she found a man named,
Davis ready to further her views. The
services of a minister were procured
and once again the words of the mar
riage ceremony fell like sweetest mu-
sic well remembered upon
her ear. The happy man and
his blushing bride decided to
seek a home further West, and they
came to Lander, arriving in the fall Of
rs. By the fall of IA Mrs. Davis had
become aware that the time for
another marriage service was rapidly
approaching. Mr.. Davis returned to
Colorado to look after business mat
tiers. They were very important, for
he is looking after them yet. Mr..
Davis selected as her partner in the
hlissful time coming a private soldier
of the neighboring garrison at Fort
Washable. The Chaplain performed
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, leaving his wife behind. ThiAj
troubled the lady but little. The desire
to hear the matrimonial formula was
again asserting itself in terms that
could not be stilled.
Returning to Landers, Mrs. Cox
looked about her with the eyes of a
connoisseur, and speedily p'i3hed upon
a well-to-do ranchman of the name Of
Reed, as her next conductor along the
matrimonial path. The burly ranch
man was nothing 10th, and the loving
twain wendell their way to the near
est justice of the peace and we're
quickly made one. All went well un-
Til the insatiate demand for another
wedding was again listened to. Petty
annoyances were again resorted 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, or, rather, only one of them,
for a blow from the lady's closed fist
Theoretically sealed 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 HorD.
country, and the report of their ma ID
riage there has just been received. {