The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-01-20
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ny hrr SIKH marriage The VA
ow Gaddes, as she has been k1".s%
for FIVE wears, becomes lLs
mother Of ioriy-seven childrs,
step grsndn other of flty ,wo u, .
ep.greai.grAndmoIher Of elsr.)
and The step greai-erea, grandm
Tier Of four. uq
The Widow Gaddes was h..
Barnes. Her fir.i husband y
George Walker. a widower IVA
five children, all Of wLom'she ~
iinned to care for after her baI
band died. and she IN time brc -. !,
the wife Of George Ot,eudsr
w'dower with SIX ch,ldren,io vh,I
.he became a second mn,S'
When she became The Widow al
tender, which she did IN less IN,
a wear, The five Walker chi,d,.]
and the six younger Ottends|
continued living with her in Dead
and harmony, which VA na, Il;
,urbed when the Widow offend
became The wife Of Charles G rs.
and a mother to hi- nite mo,h]
less children.
A good many Of the children
these different families had ,ro,l
20 lie men and wo,n,n Ly N
time, and. when four wears af')
she became tie vie of Ch,,,|
Gregg she became his widow. 81
eral Of them had married al
started families OF their own, son
of The Walkers marrying ON.
ders and some ef The Grecss M
rying both Walkers aud Oi,d
ders-so that when the Wjd1
Gregg became Mr.. Jehiel Fi,|
her husbands seven child1
found only one Of The Walker i
spring, three Offenders and fl
Greggs claiming a share of the
ten,ion Of their new mother.
IN course Of time the Filcl, I'd
tinceni or slepchildren was reid
Ell by marriage until there nd
only three Ol them left as a chad
in the family. aud by these nd
riages The number of unclslmI
Greggs was r. duced TO TIVE,
Offenders To one and the Wall
stock WAS entirely wiped out. I'd
were Mrs. Jehiel Fitch's fan,|
cares made so liahl that she |
nnbearab!y lonesome whAn sh4
lat became the Widow Fitch
lonesome, indeed. that in less III
Il year she ceased being the WI
NV Fitch and became Mis-. 81
mon Gaddes aud the willing ST
mother Of Solomon Gadde,'s e1
children. The oldest of It'd
children WAS fifteen. the Young
Two, and as Mrs. Gaddes was d
fifty and her lates, husband
years her junior she had virud
started in 10 raise am thpr en
family. Tbs became a literal d
tor in less than y year she bera|
fie Widow Gadd.s with The uh|
rseven OF the new stepchildren, |
oldest not ohi enough to .upH
her,eli on atr hands.
She kept them together, but
Of hem having married and 81
away rerently-nearly SIX ye|
having passed since there hecs|
a Widow & ,ddes-and The la,l
If the Greggs, Offenders d
Fitrhts having set up homes
their own. the Widow GaAd,s
so lonesome again ,ha, shp l,ol
as providenlial lniarven'
when John Z. CalIan asked hen
take charge Of him and bect|
.tepmother 10 hi. thirteen cll
rem. although she rgrplteG 4
only three Ut ll,ese were 10 Ell
under her maternal projections
each one was Older than herself
Her new husband is twenty.1
Years her senior. Although
brings her 10 young children, al
Of her o.her husbands did.
consoles herself with tie ref
lion lha, he has thirty grAndch|
rem, many Of them small, eleY
great.grandciiIdren and four er|
great some OF VIII
circumstances may throw ul|
her personal care.
Mis-. Callan, with all her \
bands, has never had a child
her own, but thirty Of her II
children grew up under her ca
Only one child died among all
five families she reared. The u
,ttime she married she lived Of
Harm she owned, hut moved ~
il 10 her husbands. The next ~
riage took her from that larII1
her second husbands, and 30
each marriage removing her \
new farm, the whole five OF VIM