The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-04-28
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A Young Lady Of St. George Marries
a Stranger
Who Is Arreste d for Bigamy at, Or.
anReburR and the Young Lady
Retn1ns Home.
A special dispatch from st. Georges
to the State, under date OF last Wed.
nesday, says nearly three weeks ago q
gentleman calling himself DR. Kenyon
Millard, hailing from Indianapolis,
Ind, arrived at ST. George wearing q
silk hat and prince albert coat, going
to the home Of Mrs. M. O. Kenyon,
who Is the proprletreSs of the Aver.
leigh House in that town. Soon aftel
1t was announced by Madam Rumol
that this gentleman was to wed Mis-.
Sallie Kenyon, the accomplished
daughter Of the boarding house keep
er.
The dispat ch goes on to say that all
kinds OF time we're reported by rumol
when the wedding was to take place
then it would be reported that it haC
been called off, and SO it went for 0
week or more, but finally on Tuesday
OF last week 1t was announced thai
the marriage would take place at the
home OF the BRIDES mother on Thurs
day night Of last week, and the friends
OF the bride were busy making ar.
rangements for the affair, and every
thing TO make the occasion attractive
was b.irg done, when on the evening
of Tuesday Of last week the intended
groom In company with the to be
bride went to Call upon the Rev. M
w. Rankin, pastor Of the ST. George
Baptist Caurch, to request his service
in performing the marriage cere
mopy.
The Rev. Mr.. Rankin refused to act
because he had learned that the
would be groom had been divorced
from former wife. Then the plans
Of the couple char ged and they called
In the arrangements for the marriage
on Thursday evening and on Wednes
day morning packed their respective
baggage and bought tickets for Or,
angeburg, and left on the O'Clock
train over the Southern railway
where it is said that they will procure
the services Of the Rev. e. NJ. Light
foot Of the Baptist church to perform
the ceremony. The groom beirg un
satisfied with marriage in State
where there is no license required
they vii, take the earliest train TO-
Augusta, Ca, where they will procur,
q license and be remarked by justice
Of the peace.
DR.. Millard heard of Miss Kenyon
about four months ago through cor
respondence. 1t is said that she say
where he had made several lecture
and Miss Kenyon's first acquaintanc
with him was In reply to some adver
tisement that she saw in which thi
gentleman was asking to communicat
with his kin. This correspondence
led to a courtship which brought DR.
Millard to St. Georgs about thre
weeks ago, which was the first tim
that Miss Kenyon saw him or he sa,
her. DR.. Millard says that he ha
travelled in Africa and other easter
countrirs, has been married and di
vorced, his divorced wife since havin
died. He is a cultured g.ntlenan Z
about 55 years and has lectured in th
churche, at ST. Georges several time
while there. Miss Kenyon come
from one Of the best families in thi
section.
MARRIED IN oRANGEBURa.
DR.. Millard and Miss Kenyon al
rived In Orangcburg on Wednesda
morning and after putting up at
boarding house called on the Rev.
NJ. Lghtfoot at tire parsonage an
were married bv him The ministe
had no cause to think that the coupl
should not be married when he
formed the ceremony, as he had no
seen The State with the article frur
ST. George. M. Ligh,fo has know
tn bride for several years, and whe
the couple came to him with the re
quest that he marry them, he mad
inquiries as to why they sh uld com
to him TO be married. He was give
to underS' and that there was no or
position among the family to tn
marriage, but that neither the gen
lenan nor lady liked the B pti, i,
minister at ST. George, Mr.. Rlnkin
and that they preferred coming t
Orangeburp to being married by MI
Rjnkln Mr.. Lightfoot also says tina
DR.. Millard said that after living al
these years without mate, ne ha'
come all the w5y to South Carolina I,
get a. life from among the distin
euished Carolina women" Mr.. Light
foot says that the impression con
veyed not only upon himsslf, bu
upon the members OF his family pres
eat, was thai DR.. Millard had neve
before been married.
Immediately upDn seeing The Stat,
Thursday morning, Mr. LightfJo
called on Miliard and asked II it wer,
true that he was a divorced man, tt
which he replied that he had bee
divorced but that his first wife hat
since died. When asked why he didn',
admit the fact Wednesday he said h,
considered 1t no ones business, eithe
individually or State. Mr.. Lghtfoot
was born In Pennsylvania and raised
in New York, but although his minis
try has taken him from the Atlantic
to the prairies, and although all of hi
ministry up to three years ago wa.
spent In divorce granting States, ht
has never knowingly married di
vorced party and regrets exceedingly
that he was misled Wednesday. HI
so told Millard and further suggested