East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-26
BLUEGRASS WIDOW WEEDS
HER NINTH HUSBAND.

BiOEGNASS WIDOW WEEDS
HER NINTH HUSBAND.
Matilda Jane Myers has taken to
herself her ninth husband, breaking
the record of Kentucky-indeed, the
record for herself, but she was holder
of the champion marriage belt at the
time of her eighth wedding, says the
Louisville correspondent of the Cleve-
land Leader, Matilda Jane, though
only 33 years of age has been;
Mrs. Morgan Ellet,-
Mrs. stephen Boards.
Mrs. Edward Wicton.
Mrs. Andrew Lowman.
Mrs, Nat Lowman,
Mrs. Manuel Hudson,
Mrs, Dumesnil,
Mrs. Ayers.
Mrs. Joe Humphrey,
Death. not divorce, has widowed
Matilda Jane. No breath of scandal,
no ermined court. has sent her store.
ward for weeds.
Matilda Jane was born at Harkins.
The other day she became a Humph-
rey. But between Harkins and
Humphrey lie history and romance
When only l6 years of age fate
decreed that she should love young
mountaineer named Morgan Ellet.
one night she and Ellet eloped on
horseback to Campbellsville, ten
miles away, and were married. Her
father, who had opposed the match,
followed them on horseback and met
them on the return. The old man
attempted to shoot his son-in-law,
but the girl wife stepped in front of
her lord and master and defied her
father to shoot. He did not.
Eleven months after Morgan Ellet
went hunting. He climbed fence,
his gun slipped, the hammer struck
a rail, and Matilda Jane was a widow
There came wooing Stephen
Boards, wealthy skinflint, who held
a mortgage on the home of Mrs. Ell
let Instead of foreclosing the mort
gage he held, he laid siege to the
heart of the pretty widow and they
were married. One day Boards rode
away to foreclose mortgage on
somebody's property He was shot
from ambush and killed. He left a
large estate
Then there came down from the
hills young Edward Wicton. moon
sinner. Matilda Jane would listen to
no other suiter. but married the
handsome mountineer.
one day posse of "revenuers." as
the mountaineers call them raided
the Wicton cabin. Edward was away
from the home. but his sister attacked
the officers and were fighting them
when Edwards appeared. He stood
behind tree and killed two officers
and wounded two others, until they
returned his fire, and then young
Mrs Wicton went back to her old
home once more a widow
She hardened to loves song when
it was warbled by Andrew Lowman.
Two years they were happy together,
and ANDY was gathered to his
fathers. She then welded Not Low
man, brother of Andy. One day Nat
took his AK to the mountains to chop
wood. At midnight he had not re-
turned. and Matilda Jane went to
search for him. When she found a
huge tree lately cut down she looked
under it and there lay her husband,
crushed to death.
One year after her fifth experi-
ence of widowhood Manuel Hudson
came to the house, and after n short
courtship they were married. Hud-
son was lobbyist and would go to
Frankfort when the Legislature con-
yened. There a Jealous PARTISAN for
'the other side" shot and killed him.
Then one Dumesnil approached, and
little later the pair we're married.
One day he went to Cincinnati and
fell dead from heart trouble.
Shortly after she welded Ayers.
He was given to argument so distaste-
full that when it came to fix the
blame for his death the Grand Jury
simply gave it up and decided it was
rather a coroner's verdict of suicide.
The other day she welded one ole
Hum