The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-11-29
A MISSISSIPPI GIRL.
HISTORY OF HER STRANGE COURTsHIf
AND MARRIAGE.

AND MARRIAGE.
A romantic courtship was the ess
pousal of Calvin Wilcox OF pretty
Matte Wilcox, OF Fayette hamlet,
Miss. The whole thing came to pass
through leaning Of the geneaOlogi-
cal tree, says a Norwich Comm tele-
gram to the Globe Democrat. Neither
had set eyes upon the other until Miss
Matte met Calvin, who had dropped
into Fayette on their bridal morning.
Calvin had been thought by his Con.
necticutt neighbors to be somewhat
curious. In the first place he had
spent most Of his his life in a sort of
hermit way. He is so years old and
the plump and comely bride soon be-
20. Calvin had dwelt in singular
style far away in the country at
St0nehill, in the wilds OF Griswoid,
ten miles north OF this city. He
wonld have no woman around him to
sew on his buttons wrong. He Is rich
as things go in the nutmet States,
owns pretty near all the earth he can
see from his front and back dOorsteps,
has farms in every direction, and at
least 5000 acres Of choice woodland.
He lives entirely alone and does his
own house work. The ancestral home
had been falling for tlfty years, and
Calvin just let 1t fall. He made no
repairs. Shingles went and the driv.
ing rain and drifting snow came in.
He merely shifted his household
effects to place under the rooftree
where the shingles were tolerably
whole. Next doors and window sashes
came tumblng in on him and lie re-
celved them Hospitality and let them
stay right where they had toppled,
until one day he emigrated to one of
his numerous dwellings-this one at
Pachang pond-on one OF his many
farms. Still he kept on living alone.
To the wonder of Pachang he went to
the worlds fair in Chicago and came
back safely, having accomplished his
first trip beyond the borders OF the
nutmeg State.
Mr.. Wilcox never wasted any time
on correspondence, so he was surprised
not long ago at receiving a letter from
a Mr.. Wilcox, Of Fayette, Miss, in
which the writer said he had hear of
the eastern Connecticut branch Of
the Wilcox family, and was wondering
whether he and Calvin we're not kith
and kin. Calvin replied to the letter
and soon came second from Fayette,
written by the Mlssissippian's daugh-
ter Matte, who explained gracefully
that she was her fathers amanuensis.
Thenceforth Calvin and Matte kept
exchanging correspondence, creeping
higher and higher up the genealogical
tree, the letters on both sides growing
more confidential all the time until
not long ago the correspondents found
themselves on the tip top branch of
1t. Mr.. Wilcox proposed marriage,
photographs were exchanged, and Il
week later letter came from the fair
one OF Fayette favorable to Calvin's
suit.
| Accordingly, Mr.. Wilcox, a day or
two later, attired in the most elegant
apparel he had ever worn, packed his
carpet bag and set out for Mississippi.
All the Fayette folks came out to
greet him. Calvin and Matte were
married in the little red school house
in the village, and every one in the
town attended the nuptials. The
bride and groom promptly set forth
on their wedding journey, which ter
minated in Calvin's second homestead
at Pachang, and everybody in six
towns knows that he is the happiest
most radiant groom in the State. III
! Is changed man, too. No more grin
} and lonely hermit life in a tumble
: down shell, but everything is on tor
at Calvin Wilcoxs. Calvin has re
paired the old homestead so it fairll
, shines In Its splck-and-span glory, an,
{ Calvin and Matte, in gay raiment, g
a great deal in Pachang society.