The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-09
DIVORCED ONCE EACH FROM
-FOUR, REMARKED AND
DIVORCED AGAIN
FROM TWO.
Last Husband Was Her First Be.
throthed From Old Ireland
Had Been Separated for
Many Years Through
misunderstanding
Other News.

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misunderstanding
Other News.
Harrisburg, Neb. June ga
matrimonial record presumably.
without parallel in the connubial
annals of this OF any other civilized
country has been made by not
uncomely middle-aged woman, who
has just sold her ranch in Scott's
Bluff county, north Of here, and
gone Eaet to live with a man to
whom she was recently married in
fulillment of promise she made
to him when they were lad and lass
In Ireland.
She has earned the distinction of
having taken the marriage vows
nine times, for having been taken
to wife by seven men, Of having
been divorced from four, of having
remarked and been twice divorced
from two, and of having borne 8
child or children by every one of
her seven husbands save the hus-
band with whom she is now living.
She is the mother of seventeen chill
dren, nine sons and eight daugh-
ters, all of whom are now living
and all but three of whom have
children of their own.
Ann Moore was born and reared
in a county in the north of Ireland
and was accounted the most buxom
and comely lass in all the country
side. All the lads were in love with
and paid court to her, but Thomas
Fitzgerald was her favorite suitor,
and to him she early plighted her
trcih. But Thomas was poor and
unable to support a wife and it be-
fell that soon after the engagement
OF the young couple was announc-
ed, she was brought by her parents
to this country. Thomas and Ann
bade each other a fearful farewell,
with many protestations Of love and
fidelity on the part ofboth of them
and with the promise on his part
that within the year he should come
over the sea and take her to wife.
| From New York, where they
landed, the parents and their only
child made their way direct to a
village in Northern Ohio. Letters
from Thomas came regularly to
Ann and letters from her went reg.
ularly to him for several months,
Then a misunderstanding arose
and the letters suddenly ceased.
Doubtless no serious consequences
would have flowed from the misun
derstanding had it not happened
that soon after it arose, the Moeret
Get out for the West and Thomai
set out for Ohio to join them.
The Moores In the hurry and ex
citement of getting away forgot tt
tell the postmaster where to for
ward their mail. Thus it came a
bout that when a letter came from
Thomas telling Ann that be was or
his way to join her it had to be sen
to the dead letter Office, and tina
when Thomas himself arrived b,
discovered, not only that his sweet
heart had gone away, but that no
body knew whittier. Well-nigl
heart-broken he Get out 10 quest o
his sweetheart, but it was futil
search, and he was soon compelled
to abandon it and go to work tt
earn for himself a living.
Ann did not know that her fathe
had neglected to tell the postmaste
where to forward their mail, and a
time went by and she did not hea
from Thomas, she became convinc
ed that he did not care for her au
grew bitter in her feelings towar
him.
In disappointmentand bitterness
she lost somewhat of that pride an
discretion which had marked he
earlier life. Her father went fror
, town in the Middle West in ques
of the fortune he was never able t
grasp and she and her mother wer
with him. He was a man of som
education, but had neither trade nc
profession, AMI thus was compelle
to turn his hand to whatever ofe
led.
Ann lost none of her com elinel
as she grew older, and wherev'
> she went young men were attracte
?, to and paid court to her. Not loI
,e after she left Ohio she was marie
e. to young Irish lawyer In Nil
die Western town. She admitte
that she did not love him, but |