The record-union., 1894-06-25
A MUCH MARRIED WOMAN.
How She Made a Specially of Matri-
monial Alliances.
Heroine of Thirteen Weddings-Death
of Marie Lemon, Whose Career
is That Of World breaker.

Mrs. Marie Lemon has married her last
husband, and iii her case the thirteen has
proved unlucky.
One of the most remarkable matrimo-
nial careers on record started in this city
nearly century ago. and ended few
days since in California by the death OF
the woman whose penchant seemed to be
making a collection of husbands. If she
did not reach the success in numbers
which is attained by other gatherers OF
curiosities. she certainly did we'll i'll her
own peculiar line.
Mrs. Lemon, too, played no favorites.
since she started in with a newsboy, and
concluded with a riverman. The lady
took very early start, and began by run
ming away with David Black, a newsboy
of this city, when she was fourteen years
OF age. The youthful pair soon tired OF
each other, and Maria came home.
Some time afterward siE met Harry
SNYDER of st. Louis, who eVaS attracted
by her prepossessing appearance, and de-
cided to educate her up TO his ideal OF
wife. He married her and sent her to
school. There she acquired number OF
talents, and soon became so accomplished
that Snyder, who was a young stone mer-
chant, could not manage her, and they
separated.
She returned to this city. whore she met
Charles Fairchild, river Captain, who,
after living with her year, turned the
tables by deserving her. She supposed
he had gone West, and in 1850 she went
TO California to find him.
In san Francisco she developed her old
weakness for getting married, and soon
became as well known TO the ministers as
to the divorce courts. She concluded with
DR.. Mott, who brought her East, but in
New Orleans he died; but she soon re-
covered from the shock, and married 4
man named Cross. They sailed for AL
paraiso on their wedding trip, and on ac-
count of quarrel while on ship board.
Cross left her as soon as they landed. She
took the matter very philosophlcally. and
applied to the courts OF that country for a
release, which obtained, she promptly
married Captain West, of the ship on
which they had made their honeymoon
trip.
With Captain West she made a tour of
the world, and her sister attributes the
fact OF her living with him SO long to
the impossibility of her getting off the
ship.
They completed the tour by visiting her
old home in this city, where the inevita-
Bile quarrel came about, and divorce fol-
lowed in the courts OF this country
On trip from this city to Cairo she
met Sage Miller of the latter city. She
encountered in this the most unfortunate
of her matrimonial alliances. though she
made it pay in the long run. The Cap
tain Of the boat introduced her to Miller,
telling her that he was prosperous mer-
chant, and telling him that she was a
| n c,l,s Il
him on that idea, and on returning found
his big store was a country crossroads
grocery, She concealed her disappoint-
ment for time, and one day told him
she wanted to visit some relatives in an
adjoining county, and as he would, of
course, want his wife to look as stylish ss
possible, she suggested that he borrow
the diamonds belonging to his sister and
allow her to wear them.
He readily agreed to this proposition
and never saw his wife again, nor did his
sister see the diamonds.
Marie took a trip to New Orleans on
one occasion, and III riding in the pilot
house captivated II. Attenborough, tue
pilot, with whom she went ashore and
hunted up a minister.
AS might be supposed, she was no
luckier in this venture than before, and
the consequence was another separation.
hAtOA " h1Nh viz t4AOe NOhV w OSt, dIlQ lS
now living on a ranch near Prescott,
| Wyoming.
She also figured in a peculiar marriage
in this city, the event taking place in the
City Hospital, where the husband was
i'll and lay on cot while the ceremony
was performed.
| Husband No. II came along in the per-
son Of a Mr. Lemon, who was head clerk
in mercantile house, but it was no use.
| they never could agree, and he was SO
different from her former husbands and
ali that. The result was that another bit
of paper and another attorney fee put the
lady on an equal footing with her
younger sisters.
The next move OF this unquestionably
Sweet Marie" was to tall into the spirit
ualism craze, which she encountered in
the West through medium, Mrs Mary
g. Smith. The Smith woman wound her
up nicely, and soon had will in her own
favor made by Mrs. Lemon. The lady,
however, found time To marry her thir-
teenth husband, at Alameda, where she
was living with the medium. They were
divorced, as usual, and the lady resumed
the former name of Lemon.
Having at length grown too old to cap
tlvate the fair sex, she really Iell in with
the mediums plan for meeting her old
husbands III the other world, and hence
lett her money TO Mrs. Smith. Her sis
ter, Mrs. Rachel Neal, is contesting the
will with the Smith woman.-Cipcinna
Commercial Gazette.