The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21

her reply to the question of Mr.. Short
ridge as to her age.
"You would not spoil young widows
prospects?" she pleaded. 81 attained my
majority before / came to California.
am 49 years DID,"
The first twenty years after she was in
vented she passed mostly in Pennsylvania,
and took occasion to inform her questioner
that she was country girl. She also dur
ing this period visited relatives in Ten
ressee, Kentucky, New York, Connecticut
and other places, and thus probably ac-
qulred the nomadic habit to which she
later confessed she was addicted. She sell
dom remained more than month or two
with any one of her relatives. She went
to Memphis, Tenn. about the beginning
OF the war to live with a sister. and re-
mained there. in her own words, until
the cruel war was over" While there she
married Berthoid Marschner, captain in
an Illinois cavalry regiment. She graphi-
caliy described how she "stood the chances
Of bullets" with her husband when she ac-
companied him to Vlcksburg. On their
| journey she told how the pilot-bouse was
shot to splinters. Later she went to Chi
cago, where her husband dieu at the close
| of the war.
In 1868 she came to California for her
health, after having been bequeatheo
| SIS, 900 by her uncle William Keller, from
the income of which she lived.
On arriving in this City she went to .he
Cosmopolitan Hotel. where, she says, she
obtained years commodation in ex-
! change for landscape painted by herself
This work OF art, she mournfully informed
! her questioner, was lost to the world in
the fire which destroyed the Tubbs Hotel
| in Oakland
Having exhausted the board and lodging
value of her painting, she took up her
residence "at place opposite the Baldw
1 VI VI oaEa
not for the incident rey-nue, she had a
family live with her. II took them" she
said, because I thought was too young
| to live alone. / was a young widow in
! those days and was besieged with beaus'
After this she recorded change of resi-
dence every few months. Continuing her
| life story, she said:
II lived at SOB Mason street at the time
OF my marriage to Jud Hastings in 1877.
Up to 1888 never lived more than two or
three months at any one place. ] moved
every lew weeks because a son of Judge
Hastings harassed me.
after my marriage to the Judge went
into the real estate and insurance business
as an agent and solicitor. / sometimes
made sales OF real estate, and wanted to
insure the old man, but Mr.. Giselman
would not let me do it.
II was married 10 the Judge the first
time in 1877. do not remember the
month lt was early In the spring. can
recollect the second marriage more def.
nitely. The first was a Quaker marriage.
1t was consent marriage. 1 was Quaker
when / was young. They say the cere-
mony themselves. They don't have
| preachers to marry them"
"How long had the Judge known you Pr
she was asked by Mr.. Shortridge.
Il had known him by sight from the
time came to California. His first wife
died in 1876, and she was not dead long
before he was making love 10 me. He
said if / would marry him he would settle
| 2.OOO, 900 on me. l was very much ad :
! mired at that time and had plenty OF offers
of marriage.
"The marriage was as follows. Quaker
style. He said: Il suppose l must take
| thee, Mary, to be my lawful wife, and I
said, i take thee, Clinton, to be nv lawful
husband and we joined hands before
witnesses. One of the witnesses present
was Hugh Clayton, Quaker. He is now
dead. He was my caterer at that time.
and he was high toned caterer. too. An
other witness was Mrs. Mary Kingman.
do not know where she lives now. Thev
move SO much in California can't chase
them. She was staying there in the house
as a friend of NINE, but not paying. l
kept her as com mpanion.
AFTER the marriage he said he desired