The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
WAITED FIFTY YEARS TO WED
MIR. AND MRS. HUBERT HAPPY
AS CHILDREN.
Each Is the Others Earliest Recollection
but Both Have Been Married Before
To Spend the Honeymoon with
Parents At Their Old waterloo Home.

When Mr.. and Mrs. Tallman F. Hubert
walked yesterday morning out of the
house Of the Rev. Henry Marsh Warren,
hotel chaplain. who had just married them.
they were holding hands like two children
playing at getting married-although he
is 81 and she So. The chaplain looked after
them as they walked down Nlnety-fourth
street to take a surface car for Paradise.
They are the happiest couple I ever
married." he said. They deserve to be.
They have waited for each other nearly half
a century"
Mr.. Hubert told the chaplain, in a few
moments Of suspense while they were
waiting for the witnesses to arrive, that 1t
began Just about fifty years ago.. He was
4 years old to the best Of his recollection
and she was 8, when he kicked over a sand
pile which she was building. She cried,
and he was sorry and rebuilt 1t to show
how he felt about it. So they made up,
baby fashion.
DO you know, I believe that's the
first thing / remember, said the bridegroom
to the chaplain: and the bride snuggled
her hand In his and said:
Isn't it funnyf It's the first thing I re-
member, tool"
That was a new and wonderful thing
to remember just as they were getting
married-that their earliest remembrance
was Of each other.
Il guess l sort Of got you on my mind, 4"
said the bridegroom, laughing tenderly.
The witnesses came just then, and Tall
man F. Hubert of Breedbrill, Mich, and
Annie M. Hubert Of Jersey City we're
married at once. She did not change her
name, you see. That is part CT the story.
After the incident Of the sandhill Tod"
Hubert belonged to Annie and Annie TO
Tod. Their attachment survived measles,
mumpsa and ~whooping cough He put burrs
in her hair, leased her about her dolls and
called her a "ory baby; but he never failed
TO thrash the boy who took the same liber-
ties. They were going to get married
when they got big, and teasing her was
his own special right. All this happened
in Waterloo, N. Y, where they were born
and brought up and whittier they have
now gone for their honeymoon.
The kid stage passed. She had skirts
to her shoe tops and was beginning to put
up her hair, and he was in long trousers
and shaving furtively with his mothers
embroidery scissors. Still, with occa-
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they belonged to each other. Every one
in Waterloo understood it that way.
Then one day her dress was down to
the very ground and her hair was up on
the top of her head. They were both
grown up. And something happened which
neither could quite explain to Mr.. Warren
when they told about 1t yesterday morning.
When you have just grown up you look
at things differently for q while. After a
bit you are likely to learn how wise you
were at 8 and 4.
I'VE had been 30 sure Of each other,
said the bride. that there was a kline OF
relief in going with some one else"
The West called him and he struck out
for Kansas to make his fortlne. He in
tended to come back and give it all to her;
but he neglected to tell her 30 when he left
He thought that she would understand it.
He was lax about writing. And along came
his cousin, Moses Hubert, and won her.
When he came back two years later, tired
of the West and determined TO go back to
Waterloo to settle down, Moses had just
married her.
And / didn't care any more about Water
loo" he said.
The bride, who had been smoothing
her blue travelling gown and smiling to
herself as he talked, put her hand in his
again
Twenty-Five years in the West followed
for him. He met some one else, married
her, bought with his savings a fruit farm
in Michigan and prepared to settle down
His wife died after a year and the baby
lived only a little longer
In the meantime Moses Hubert died,
leaving her with q son.
And / really tried to find you after
a while, l did, Tallman," said the bride.
1T wasn't for me to hunt for you but ]
tried. And finally l heard that you were
married"
In fact his wife had died long before
but she did not get the news Of that in
Waterloo. So in two or three years she
married again, this time a man nance
Smiley, and went to live with him in Jersey
City. They both passed Lightly over that
episode. A year ago she divorced Smiley
and the courts gave her back her former
name. So three times, counting yester'
day, she has changed her name to Hubert.
To Tallman Hubert, prosperous and
lonely on his fruit farm in Michigan, cape
the first positive news from her in years
in the announcement that she was about
to be divorced. He started at once fol
Jersey City and made up for lost hme ir
his wooing.
I'm marry you just as soon as a yea
is up" she said.
And III be here to marry you the very
day the year is up" said he.
He travelled back to Michigan, had hi
old house torn down and built a new ont
good enough for n bride. All the yea
he furnished it and fixed it for her. 1
stands on the border of a lake, he told thu
chaplain yesterday, and he has rooted W
acres and acres for the grounds,
Her year was up on Thursday, and sharI
on Thursday he appeared in his wedding
clothes in Jersey City. They planned Il
be married in New York at the Little Church
Around the Corner and to take a night trail
for Waterloo on their honeymoon. Blu
when the parson at the Little Church Arounc
the Corner heard that she had been di
voroed he pointed to his rules and was YER!
sorry. She vent back to her house IL
Jersey City and he to his hotel in New York
The next day was Friday, and no goot
for weddings. Friday afternoon he hear
of Chaplain Warren, went to see him anc