Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03

like person utterly hopeless and the prey
of despair. She is less than so years old
now and will out1ive many man who
isn't dead yet.
Mrs. Spencer has had II husbands
Some Of them she disposed of by death,
and others she parted with at the end of
a lawsuit; still others fled from her. She
has seven kinds of children Four of her
marriages were unbiased by any of these
pledges of affection.
'Shc naturally had to begin welded life
carly to make such a noble record. Her
name was originally Emma A. r. Lyon.
She was born in Franklinvi]le, Cattaragus
county, n. Y, and came west with her
family in 1850. Two years later, when
she was living down Maxinkuckee way,
in Marshall county, she was married to
Nelson Drake, a carpenter. She was only
Is years old then. Drake died in short
time, and she next became the wife of a
man named Roberts, He was a sort of
trifling. no account crittcr, l judge. He
never cut much of a figure. Mrs. Spencer
herself remembers in a general way that
she had Roberts for a husband along in
tho 1ifties somewhere, but either she cam t
Or doesn't want to recall anything definite
about him. At all events, he dropped out
Of sight-died or. maybe lit out-and she
became the vito in duo time of DR..
Maryette. She studied medicine and be
came a physician herself. They had a
good practice in Indianapolis, where they
settled and got along comfortably until
Maryette died.
''Thc widow was comfortcd in her sor
row by person of the name of Ballard, a
friend of tho departed, and whom she mar
ried at the end of brief period of mourn
ing. They lived at Kokomo. Ballard was
a useless attachment to any family, and
the best thing he ever did for his wife Was
to leave, and Kokomo knew him no more.
"Dr. Vaniden succeeded Ballard, and
they lived happily until one day Vaniden
inadvertently stood in front of a moving
train. They hardly saved enough of him
to hold legal inquest or to offer in evil
dence in damage suit. The bereaved
soon married one Straw hacker. This
was in 1876. Strawbacker wasn't a six
spot. He made no particular impression
on any one. Whether he died or was d.
vorced I can't say.
william Moore was her next selection.
They lived at Peru, from which place they
removed to Plymouth, where Mrs Moore
got a divorce. You sec, she had been mar
rled so often by this tlmC that she knew
what kind of treatment she was entitled
to. Moore began to get gay and figured
he'd run things himself. She gave him
the springboard,' as the young men say,
too quick. In 1888 She was married to
Thomas Farlan. Ono year was enough.
and she got divorce in 1884. A farmer
named John Cunningham was the next
candidate He was miser, and this spirit
ed woman did not endure him six months.
with her next husband, William
Spencer, she led an ideal life, but it was
too sweet to last. Spencer was taken away
in 1889 and left quite fortune. In 1882
Mrs. Spencer became the wife of Judge
Zebidee D. Boulton of Bourbon. A legal
separation and decree followed this mar
riage, which was her last venture in that
behalf She took Spencer's name again.
'Now," concluded Mr.. Coffin, ringing
for ice water 'show me the marital sta
tistics that beat these have offered