The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-28
MARRIAGES III HIGH LIFE.
some Notable Weddings I'm the Early Port of
the fentury--aIntrImOnial Come ctions of
Washington, Adams and jefferson.

Some Notable Weddings In the Early Port OF
the Century-alntrImonial Come ctions OF
! Washington, Adams and jefferson.
(Ga'h in Cincinnati E:uquirer)
Even our Presidents have poor lucl,
with their marriages. Washington mar
ried his adopted daughter, who was
Lis wife's grandchild to lis own nephew,
and the last j heard of them was the sale
to the government of some of Washing
tons old furniture by the posterity
john Adams had q daughter named
Abigail, who married young revolu-
tionary officer named Smith. In taking
care OF Smith, who was but mediocre,
Adams incurred many enmities.
The ladies may be further interested
in the subject of the marriages of i'm
portant people. Mr.. Jefferson had very
Interesting daughters, and they married
| Virginia politicians around him, to very
little satisfaction in at least one case.
, Maria, the best looking of these gi1ls,
died in 1904. Her husband had bee, q
sporting man and horseman, anu it aD-
! pears that both the sons-in-law of Jeffer-
son required endorsements, etc., which
brought the old mans gray hairs down
to mendicancy, in addition to his own
financial errors.
Aaron Burr, on the other hand, had
one daughter, and she made a brilliant
marriage, but it was her father who in
volvcd her and her husband in his un-
scrupulous financial and political tricks,
ruined her husband, and when she en-
barked from South Carolina with her
child to seek her father she met some
where in this world an agonizing death.
1t is a legend that pirates took the vessel
and made this brilliant young woman
and her child walk the plank. No cvi-
dence, however, exists on the subject,
except hearsay; ut that time there were
privateers and pirates.
The most brilliant marriage ever made
in the political circles Of the country in
the times of Washington was that of Ann
Willing to William Bingham. They
married early in those days, especially
where there WAS money, and Ann Will
ing married at sixteen. Her husband
was descended from q Quaker black
smith, but his family had for four gen
cratlons made prosperous marriages, and
during our revolutionary war the hus-
band got out of the country and held q
position Of half British, half American
consul in one of the West India islands
to which priVateers resortcd Ho came
home very rich, and received as well the
Bingham moneys, and he choose the
daughter of Willing, who was president
OF the United States Bank, and business
partner Of Robert Morris The Vikings
were the finest people in Philadclphia.
Secretary BoyaYl is descended from one,
of them. Ereshly married in hcr bloom.
the bride and husband went to Iiuropc
and remained a%ay five years. They
were introduced at Inc court of tue
French king by Minister Adams, and
the young man was greatly admired as
the frSt American ever seen abroad.
When he returned, at the commence
ment OF Washington's administration
they built the finest house ever seen in
Ihlladelphla up to that time, and not
eXcelled perhaps III the present day. 1t
was tllicd with the best furniture to be
bought In France and the best pictures
from Italy. Along came young Barring,
the English banker, and saw Ihc daugh-
ter OF this pair SO supcrbly brought up,
with town house and country house,
and he married her; and the larger Dor
tlon of tho Bingham property, which
amounted to 81 200, 900 in money, went
to swell the capital of the Barings. The
young mother, however, having lost
herself in society, caught cold in an i'm
perfect dress one night, and was seized
with consumption, and she died in the
West Indies ut an early age. She ha n
sister of whom great things was expect
ed, but along came dissOlutc French
nobleman, without any standing or pro-
prlety, and he tempted this girl to 90
out with him one night, and he kept her
out all night, to the horror and wonder
OF the town, and then made compro-
mise with her parents whereby they gave
him money to send her home; she was
divorced by the Legislature, her father
having become United States Senator,
and SO little was made of the matter by
the Barring family that she was solicited
in marriage by her brother-in-law Bar
ing, and after living with him until his
deceasc she married another French
noblcman and passed out Of notice.
President Taylor's daughter ran away
with Jefferson Davis. President Mon
roe's daughter mari" I'd her cousin, and
they have left some descendants at
washington and some i'll the State Of
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
Presidents daughter to draw attention,
She saw young, bright-faced English
man on a steamship and fell in love With
him without much reason or inquest,
and he turned out to be apparently a
sort of boys companion, hardly ever
looking up to the dignity of ac1uaint-
ance with grown men. He therefore
seeks his pleasure up in London, when
he has any money to spend, and she
stays at home with her baby.
The marriage of Blaine's son is tcs-
tlmony to the beauty, modesty and
sweetness Of Mrs. Nevins, the mother of
the bride, who has been zoo much cs-
teemed on all these points for her daugh-
ter to pass into nothngncss. In this
case we know what the poet means when
he says:
A thing of beauty is JOY forever;
It's loyelness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingneSs, but still will keep.