Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-08
CARRIE NATIONS
STRANGE LIFE STORY.
SHE WAS BRED IN OLD KENTUCNN
AND HAS LIVED IN MISSOURI,
TEXAS AND KANSAS.
TEXANS ORDERED DAVID OUT.
Her First Husband Died Drunk
ards Death--Hcr Child aud Grand
ChiIdrcn-Husband signed Her
out of Propcrty-spcsss 10 over
Flowing Houses of Eager People.


old Kentucky" said Mrs. Carrie Ma
tien. to a representative of the Regis
ter, while sitting in her room at the
Stamm House yesterday. Yes. sub, so
yes see I was bred in old Kentucky
as the song goes. In 1856 my father
moved to Missouri with his family.
When a girl in Missouri was mar
ried to DR., Charles Gloyd and we liv-
ed in Holden. Mo. where he practiced
his profession. One year after our
marriage. a little daughter was born
TO us-the only child was ever bless
ed with. She's married now and has
four children. so you see am grand
mother Her name is Charlien MIC
Nabb-I named her for her father,
whose name was Charlie; Just put an
n to 1t for her name. She lives down
from Houston. and about so miles
from Galveston
We'll, to go back 10 my story. Six
months after our little girl was born,
1hdiiits my uusbdhu, uieu-
There were tears in her eyes as she
said in reply to a question What did
he die off" HE drank himself to
death. How l suffered and what
suffered in the last year before his
death only God and know have
hated whskey ever since. | know by
experience what ii does to a man when
1t gets him in it's power.
For nearly six years | was a widow
and supported myself ana my child.
Mrs. Nancy Gloyd, my dead husbands
! mother. lived with me, and continued
for years to do so, until she died at ST
years of age; twenty-three years she
lived with me- She was a good wo-
man.
Something like six years cfser | iost
my first husband | was married TO
David Nation. He was editor of the
Waynesburg, Mo-, Journal and law
yer. You see | had asked God II he
ever gave me second husband to give
/ me such an ono as II would be best for
, me to have-and he gave me David
Nation. | guess it was to train me fer
my work, for we never agreed and he
used to do lying things and | had as
his wife to keep still about 1t.
I'VE moved from Missouri to Texas,
to Richmond near Houston, and kept
a hotel there and bought some land.
200 acres One day he brought me a
paper to sign. Said 1t was permit to
let 'em drive cattle over the land or
something of that sort. But he lied to
me, for it was deed to my land, and
so / lost that.
Then Mr.. Nation wrote something
to the Houston Post, he was a Repub-
lcan, about some young men and they
got him out one night, each of them
there were twenty fve-gave him one
lash with whip. then told him he
must get out of Texas Well. | sold
out my business and went to Kansas
with him, leaving my daughter and
: one of his living in Richmond.
Now he's suing me for a divorce,
because he wants to get control of GER
! tain property that's fixed now so that
if / die he gets it and If he dies | get
it, His son and grandson are the
movers in this matter and they are
not honest men. They have infiuenc-
ed him, | think.
1.-The rest about me is pretty we'll
known, ! guess.
MY manager? Mr.. J. c. Furlong is
my manager He sent me word when
/ was in Jail without anything. that
he would pay my fine If would agree
to deliver some lectures for him, 20
pay him back And signed an agree
ment. get forty dollars for lecture
and he pays my expenses. My mana
ger gets 800 here's / guess I'll get
fifty dollars here as L generally do
where | go alone. But when he don't
have a good audience, don't charge
him anything. | don't think that
would be right for him to lose money,
you see.'
Mrs. Nation is literalist in relig-
ious matters-thinks the Bible means
just what it says.
When the reporter remarked that he
feared he was keeping her from her
dinner, she said: mo. | shall not eat
any dinner to-day. | forgot to read
my Bible before breakfast this morn
ing, and when do that don't eat any
dinner, just to punish myself and
make me remember my Bible reading
next time"
In the foregoing you have plain,
unvarnished, unadorned little story %
Mrs. Nations career, and can discern
what sort of woman she is. Those
who think will read many things, pos
sibly not to her disadvantage. 'be-
tween the lines"
| Yesterday morning she visited the
prisoners in the jail, taking them some
fruit 1t is her custom to do this ior
saws she. 81 know what il is to be in