The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-06
HAS MARRIED AGAIN.
Mrs. Marion Carson, Divorced Wife Of Lieut.
enant I. S. Carson, Weds Buyer Of
Toys in PHILADELPHIA.

honeymoon at l514 Arch street wnefe
Mr.. Grant has resided for several
months. After the holidays they expect
to take bridal Journey for then Mr..
Grant can get leave of absence from the
Market street department store where
he is employed at the toy counter. Ac-
cording to himself, MIR. Grant is a men,
Der of a titled Scotch family and has
served with the King and Queens own
troops in India and Africa.
Mrs Grant is small woman of dainty
and graceful carriage. Though slight
in build, her figure is finely proportion
ed. Her hair IS of light brown and is
worn after the fashion OF Madame La
Pompadour. Her forehead is high and
the nose is straight. The firm chin
completes the oval contour Of her face.
Just the tiniest kind Of dimple is de-
veloped in her chin when Mrs. Grant
smiles, giving her piquancy that does
not cause one to wonder why two sons
Of Mars have surrendered to her.
She is a Southern woman and this IS
her second venture in search OF connu-
bal bliss with soldier. Her first hus-
band was Lieut.. Lawrence S. Carson. OF
the United States Cavalry, who has
married again and is now on recruiting
duty at Fort tLeavenworth: Kansas. The
divorce was secured by Mrs. Carson in
Coddington county, South L; !:ota, on
December 13, 1902, Tor wilful desertion.
Mrs. Grant explained the desertIon by
saying that Lieut.. Carson went to the
philippines with his command and dur
ING his absence of nearly three years
wrote irregularly and with such cool
ness that it chilled the ardor OF her
young love.
81 was bride OF but few months
when he went away" said she, 'and l
was forced to live alone the greater
part of the time. For several months
my mother stayed with me, but her ou-
ties at home required her attention ana
she had to leave me, too. When the
Lieutenant came home he was very
matter-of-fact, and seemed Indifferent
to our reunion. treated him the same
| wav and we consented to part. He gave
me money for my expenses and I went
awav. Last year secured my divorce
and then came on to Philadelphia,
! where I know lots of people,
| Despite the entreatles OF their friends
the Grants will not tell when or by
whom they were married The license
was secured on Wednesday and sets
forth that Basil Harding Grant was
born on the Isle of Wight on the 24th
of November, 1870, and that Mrs. Car
son was born in Camden, S. c., on
June II, 1874, which makes her 29 years
old, and her husband 33 years OF age.
Mrs. Grant comes of an excellent faml-
| " and is possessed OF some means in
her own right. She is the eldest daugh-
ter OF the Rev. John Kershaw,rector OF
St. Michaels Church, in Charleston, S.
c.. The family is distinguished South
ern one, and county in South Carolina
is named after it. Her paternal grand
father was general in the Confeder-
ate army.
When asked today why she would not
make known the facts of her second
marriage, Mrs. Grant said:
sit is not customary for Southern
women to seek notoriety when they
marry and I do not intend to give the
public something to gossip about. We
will publish the marriage notice IN
good time, and then all who are inter-
ested can read it. Mr.. Grant and
have been married legally and there
was not a bar to our being welded It
surprised my friends, l know, but then
woman does many things that are
surprising. I met my husband Two
years ago when I was in Philadelphia
with my brother, who introduced US.
He became very tond OF me, and l re-
ciprocated his affection. When my dl-
vorce was procured he asked for my hand
in marriage, but l would not consent
until last week. Mr.. Grant was then
very Ill and T wanted to be with him to
nurse him. AS soon as he was able to
60 out he secured the marriage license
and we went to minister and were
married"
1t was suggested that her husbands
claim to titled ancestry and his service
with the British troops was unsupport-
ed by any data in the books OF reference
bu5 Mrs. Grant declared that she did
not want anything further than her
husbands word. He is an unassuming
young man of medium height. His face
is thin and snooth-shaven. His dark
hair is rather closely cut. He speaks
in a low, pleasant voice. He smiles
frequently, but often sadly, as when
telling of a race in which he had been
engaged on the Prince of Wales yacht,
the enthusiasm suddenly left his face
and manner, and with wan smile he
concluded-''andn now I'm selling tin
toy boats.''
Mr.. Grant says be is brother OF Sir
Philip Grant, of Cowes, Isle Of Wight,
and brother-in-law of Charles Seeley,
member of the British Parliament,
who soon expects to be knighted. His
grandfather, he said, was Sir Richard
Grant, secretary of the Royal Yacht
Squadron, and whose family owned the
Islands OF Satfa and Iona, of the coast
of Scotland. These islands were relin-
ouished by the family when a grant OF
land was given them at Cowes. The
Young man refuses to tell why he aban-
doned the life of soldier to daily with
TOYS in big American shop. He saw
service as a lieutenant in India, he SAID,
with the Seventh Hussars, and IN Atrl-
ca during the Boor war with the Forty
first Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry.
He has been in America for nearl y two
years and part of that time was lnyal-
| ided by a fever he contracted in the
African campaign. His last illness
was due to acute tonsiljtls.
"We will probably go to England
soon," said Mrs. Grant, land may take
the position in society we are entitled
to. I do not care anything at all for
titles, and did not consent to become
Mrs. Grant with the hope of ever sue
seeding to a title. I love my husband
and he loves me, and we expect to be
very happy together. He IS not a for
tune-hunting Englishman and was not
attracted by my dowry. 1t was just me
he wanted, ''the little woman concluded
her dark eyes dancing lnischievously.
"A search of Burke's ''Peerage and
Landed Gentry" the ''6ritish Imperial
Catalogue, 'Whittal;ers Almanac"
who's Who," Or '"rhom's Directory"
failed to show Sir Philip Grant, nor
could any trace of a Lieut.. Basil Har-
ding Grant be found in ''Whitaker's
Directory on Naval Military Officers"
or "Hart's Army List" All these
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