Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-15
Miss Mary Levens, OF Elmira, Breaks
the Marriage Records, and Is
Not Yet 25 Years Old.
MARRIED FIRST WHEN SIXTEEN.
A Falling Tree and Vicious Horse Killed
Two Husbands, and the Others
Died From Disease.
AN EASTERN GROCER TO BE THE FIFTH
The Young Woman Is Fretty German Girl, ard Happy
Over Her Prospects.

The world is full of widows and widowers.
There are any number OF people who have
been married twice and even thrice, and
some would not object to having the knot
tied fourth time if the opportunity pre-
sented, but where is the person of marriage
able age who can beat the record of Miss
Mary Levens, of Elmira? She is not %
wears old, has been married four times, and
was on her way to Philadelphia last even
ing 10 become wife TO Quaker City gro
Ger.
This will make her fifth husband, which
would be considered remarkable even if they
were scattered through a long life, but the
girl is still young, and evidently has been
wearing widows weeds since she was 16
years old.
Miss Levens, or Mrs Mary Mason, which
is her latest name, and which will soon be
changed, was at the Union depot last even
ing with her mother.
Happy in Spite of Hard Luck.
She is a comely German girl with fair
locks and quite good looking. In spite'of
her hard luck she was happy over
her new prospects. The cruel, relentless
fate that has followed her husbands has not
furrowed her :ace, and she is philosopher
enough not to mourn over her numerous
losses.
When she was 16 wears old she married
her first husband, j. W. Coleman, Tioga
lumbermau. They had one child, and were
getting along nicely. Her husband foated
hi. boards and other material to this city,
but one day about year after they were
married a tree fell on him in the forest and
killed him.
Some time afterward she married Samuel
Book, 4 butcher in Binghamton, n. Y.
Like all butchers, he was good-natured
and prosperous, aud in excellent health.
His physique and general appearance gave
promise OF a long life, but a smallpox
scourge struck the town, and the butcher
was one OF the first to succumb to the cpl
demic.
No Luck in Odd Numbers.
Mrs. Book then became acquainted with
Edward Alling, OF Buffalo, who kept a
hotel there. He wanted wife and attracted
by the pretty widow, whom he loved de-
votedly, they were married. This made
was scarcely out of her teens. They had not
lived together very long before Mr, AlIinC was
attacked with a malignant fever, and he
died.
But nature is eften kind to those it affiicts
the most and John L. Mason, her last husband,
soon appeared on the scene. He was gardner
from Dunkirk and capable man. Four
months after they were married Mir. Mason
undertook to clean vicious horse. The ami
NAL kicked him. and he never recovered con-
sclUuSneSS. Thus two of her husbands died
violent deaths and two from natural causes.
Mrs. Mason now intends TO be married to
Joseph Armstrong grocer on Green street in
Philadelphia. As they will live IN the Quaker
City they have decided to have the knot tied
there, and, accompanied by her mother and
their household effects, they expect to arrive
there this morning.
She has two children. one by her first hus-
band and the other by the third. Mrs. Mason
will celebrate her twenty-hftE birthday in sew
eTal months.