The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-21
GROOM LEAVES YOUNG BRIDE.
Mrs. Yancey, OF Charleston, Goes to Gov
iugton In Search of her Husband.

| tugton in Search of her Husband.
CONVICTION, April Is There arrived
in Covington last night very pretty
and attractive young woman, whose
coming has revealed romance of
most interesting proportions. She is
the two-months' bride of young DR..
w. B. Yancey, of this place. She
came alone and the object OF her visit
is to join her husband, from whom
she is separated by reasons strange and
mysterious. She is the daughter of a
wealthy citizen of Charleston, s. g.,
and was married to DR.. Yancey while
he was on visit to that city IN Feb.
ruary. He is a newly graduated
physician and is about 26 years old.
He is now at Carrollton and it is said
that his young wife has just come
from that town. Just why the young
couple have separated SO soon after
marriage is not clearly known. The
Journals correspondent called on the
bride today and asked her for state
ment in regard to the matter. She
talked readily of her trouble and
seems to think that the whole difficult
ty has been caused by DIR. Yancey's
family.
She is pretty and well educated, and
her father is said to be man of large
cans.
Mrs. Yancey said: I was married
on February 19, 1897, at the home of
my parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. f. Ken
nedy, at 13 Cumming street, Charles
ton. s. @. My husband had intended
to start a practice in Augusta, Ca,
and made arrangements to board with
private family on Greene street, in
good circumstances. Instead OF do
ing so, he took me to the Arlington
hotel, where we stayed three days,
then boarded at a place on Broad
street kept by very nice people. 1
was i'll from nervous prostration
brought on by worry in the prepara.
ton for my wedding. Then he was
kindness itself, but still refused to
hang out his shingle. I begged him
to start in Charleston, but he refused
to 20 there on account OF my fathers
wealth. He was full of what is termed
pride and did not care to hang on
to my fathers back gate'-those were
his words. I then agreed to come to
lCovington with him. He brought
me to his fathers house in Covington.
am a strict Roman Catholic, and
Ben processes no denomination and
had agreed to leave me to my belief,
but not so with certain other members
of his household, who quoted Scripture
and made harm. 1t is simply case
of too much people in the twentieth
century fighting against the eighteenth
century. I love my husband, and
still care for him. All he needs is
the get up and git his wife has, and
which she is noted for in South Caro-.
lima. That is all there is about it. I
have seen him in Carrollton. He is
wholly under the influence of DR..
Hitchcock, who told me himself that
I had no right to marry poor man.
All I want is my husband. Nobody
has right to interfere between man
and wife. I married him for better
or worse"
DR.. Yancsy, the young husband,
went to Carrollton about week ago
and is said to have begun the practice
| of his profession there. He is son
of one Of the most prominent physici-
ans in this section, and is well known.
DR.. E. 81. Yancey, father of DR.. W. B.
Yancey, says his sons wife, Dollie
Kennedy Yancey. is of unsound mind
and reckless. He is not in favor of
his son living with her longer.-At-
lanta Journal.