The leader., 1903-09-19

Rankin. G. Robinson, Pisgah; J.
s. Roberts. Langford.
Scotia. N. Cooper, Forest.
Sharkey-Dr. A. Miller, Panther
Burn.
simpson-Dr. ]. D. wilkinson, Ma
! gee.
Smith-Thomas Mayfeld, Taylors-
vile.
Sunflower-W. e. Ringold, Linn.
Charleston.
Tate-W. ]. East Senatorial; S. T.
Clayton, Strayhorn.
Tippah-James Duncan, Ripley.
Tishomingo-D. L. Ross, Iuka.
Tunica-C. w. Doherty, Tunica.
Union-R. s. Bell, Myrtle; ]. G. Pat
terson, Cotton Plant
Warren-S. N. Collier. o. s. Rob-
bins, T. r. Foster, Vicksburg.
Washington-E. N. Thomas, Percy
land.
Wayne-w. M. McAllister. Waynes.
boro.
/! Webster. w. Spencer, Glenlynn.
Wilkinson-W. F. Tucker, D. F.
Huff, Woodville.
Winston-W. G. Hight, Louisville.
Yalobusha-J, w. MCGOWAN, Water
Valley; j. Mel Smith, Coffeeville.
Yazoo-J. w. George. DIR. F. Caroth.
ers, Yazoo City; w. w. Coody, Phoe.
nix
Floater Representatives.
Franklin and Lincoln--T. H. Mont.
gomery, Brookhaven.
n1,
well, Finger.
Claiborne and Jefferson-J. S. Hicks,
Fayette.
Clarke and Jasper-W. w. Heidle-
berg, Heidelberg.
Grenada and Montgomery-W. S. P.
Doty, Grenada.
Leake and Winston-W. L. Evans,
Madden.
Family Characteristics in Marriages.
1.-THE marriages of a family are a
good guide to go by in determining
it's characteristics, said a woman
| whose business it is to hunt up ped
igrees. Just as a certain sort of eye
brow or cheek or chin formation is
to be traced throughout an entire fam
| lily, so the attitude of the family to-
ward marriage seems to be handed
down.
when in the course of my work
| am in doubt about the identity Of
family am guided a good deal by the
character of the marriages set down.
For these illustrate the dominant fam
| lily traits, which govern as much in
| love matters as in other concerns OF
| life.
I'm some families early marriages
predominant. The men invariably
marry before they are 25, and the
women at a correspondingly early
age. Again, late marriages will be
the rule with members of either sex.
Some family trees show few sec
ond marriages, and rarely third
marriage, no matter how soon the
married state came to an end. Other
records are replete with second and
third and even fourth marriages on
the part of widows and widowers.
often it occurs that in families of
nine or more brothers and sisters on
descendants of those two or three dis
played similar proneness to bache-
lorhood and spinsterhood.
oOilIC loD1lliSS uISpldJ @ lLdl hCN
tendency to marry their kinsfolk, or
the connections or relations of their
kinsfolk. Others again seem by COM
mon impulse to have gone as far from
home quarters as possible in search
of mates.
'In records that go back only few
generations, there are instances of
men who have taken three sisters
successfully to wife, and Of women
marrying their brothers-in-law and
cousins-in-law, the same tendency to
race affiliation cropping out again and
again in the line. In other families
living in the same neighborhood aNd
environment not a single instance of
marriage with relations or relations
in-law occurs.
I'm studying out relationships in
quantity old-fashioned communities
one runs upon families that seemed
bound to marry at cross purposes,
as il were, both as to the age and
standing of the mates chosen. Just
so there are family records in which
a marriage at very advanced age
or with a partner of different rank
socially never occurs