The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-04
SIX TIMES A WIDOW.
And Now Her Seventh Husband is a
Boy She Reared from Childhood.

And Now Her Seventh Husband is q
Boy She Reared from Childhood.
From the Netc York World.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Dec. 20.-Among
the passengers who arrived by the early
train from Oregon on last Tuesday morn
ing was stout, rather masculine and
weather beaten-looking woman. with silver
gray hair, and a determined and independ-
ent look upon her face. She was a woman
with a marital history that it will be hard
to beat, for she has married six hufbands
and, one after another, buried them all, and
now IN her declining years comes to the
front with her seventh spouse, a STRIPPING of
Is years. The seventh husbands name is
Rawlins, and so it happens that this much
married woman is now Mrs. Rawlins.
The history of the oft-widowed woman is
interesting. She has, of course, come into
possession of whatever property each hus-
band left on his death, and thus, by sort
of system Of accumulative progression, she
is wealthy woman, and owns valuable
cattle an rich timber lands in Montana
and Oregon. She came TO San Francisco
over the plains in 1649, aud after remaining
up in Calaveras for a year or so, came to
this city as a cook. She was employed in a
boarding house at Clarks Point, at the foot
of Broadway. at 1925 a month. Her
name was Nancy Arnold. She was
as strong as man and had the
constitution of a grizzly bear. After
working there for about year, she mar
ried carpenter named Tom Clarke, who
was a partner of a man named Smith
Their carpenter shop was then on the water
front at the corner of Montgomery and
Washington streets. Smith bought half
the block between Montgomery and Kearny
streets for $500. He died shortly afterward,
and Eugene L. Sullivan married his widow
and came in for the property that afterward
made him wealthy. Clarke and his wife
Nancy put their earnings together and
bought piece of property on Sansome
street and Broadway. About one year
after their marriage Clarke was found
drowned in the bay close to his shop.
His death did not long affect his widow,
for in about one year after she married a
miner named Walter Marshall, who rad
come down from the mines with heavy
belt. He remained here for few months
only, and returned to the mines, leaving
Nancy behind him. The following winter
Marshall was lost in a snowstorm in the
mountains and persisted from exposure,
leaving his wealth TO his widow.
The great fire that swept over this town
at that time discouraged the now twice
widowed Nancy, and she sold her property
and went back home to Massachusetts, hav-
ing no longer any faith in San Francisco.
Her means back east gave her a standing in
society, and she was there only a short
time when she married a sport named Gus
Wrinkle. After this Nancy was lost sight
of for number Of years, and it was only
when Gus was killed in a railroad collision
between two trains in New York that
NancyS identity became known. The next
seen OF her by old Californians was when
the overland trains commenced running
across the mountains. Nancy, with a
fourth husband, named AIvinza Smith
was found keeping a meal-house on
the line near Omaha. He died. ami
the house changed hands and the woman
went to Montana, where she married her
fifth husband, a man named Frisbee, who
had large herd of cattle aud big slice of
grazing land in that section. There this
wonderful woman remained isolated from
the world, so to speak, for a good many
years, until the Indians killed her husband.
About five years ago. up in the mountains,
she married one of the stockmen, named
McGregor, who had worked for Frisbee.
About three years ago McGregor was killed
by being thrown Off bucking horse, and
she was then a widow for the sixth time
The present spouse, who, as has been said, IS
husband No. Z, is meek aud dutiful boy,
and was reared by his present wife from a
child. The boy calls her mamma" and
obeys her like a dntiful son rather than a
husband. If Mr.. Rawlins outlives his wife
he will have all her property, but
if not, the much married woman will have
chance to try an eighth matrimonial
venture