The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-11-24
West Virginia Woman is Not
Happy with Her Sixth
Husband Now.
WHO is IN PRISON
But She Will Stand by Him,
if He Will Only Be
have Hereafter.


WASHINGTON, D. C., NOV. 22-
Six husbands and the ayowed inten-
ton to get divorce and marry a
seventh is the record OF, a former
Charleston. w. Va, woman now live
ing in Washington, whose sixth hus-
band, also formerly from Charles.
ton, is now in the workhouse here
serving six months term for wife
beating.
The divorce leading to the seventh
husband may not be difficult to OBJ
tain, or the present husband is al
ready accused of bigamy by woman
from New York. who claims to be
his wife and the mother of his eight
children.
William Grant White who last
spring was in the real estate busi-
ness in Charleston, recently pro-
prietor OF Turkish bath house in
Washington, is serving a term of six
months for beating his wife, who
yesterday said: u am going to do
my wifely duty by Bill White and
secure his release from the work
house. If he fails to treat me with
proper consideration then, / will SCI
cure divorce and try to find real
soul mate, which j have thus far
failed to do, notwithstanding my
present marriage is my sixth"
In the meantime New York
woman who alleges. that she was
married to White twenty years ago
and is the mother of his eight chill.
dren has asked that warrant be is-
sued for him on charge of bigamy.
She says she learned through the
columns OF a Washington paper
which she received around pack
age, that her husband had been ar
rested for beating another wife.
The present Mrs. White, who
claims relationship with former
president of the United States, who
is said to have been reared in Cedar
Grove, near Charleston, and to be
the stepdaughter of prominent
Kanawha county man, is outspoken
as to her llfe's history.
II drew half dozen lemons in the
matrimonial orchard" said she.
mo, l will correct myself. Out of
the six husbands l have had there
was two good ones, but they both
died. The rest were queer mix
ture..
When l was IA years OF age at
my home in Charleston, / married
DR.. George Summers. OF Cabell
county, who was more than twice
my age. He was model husband.
but he died in about year. He
left me with a little baby which
lived until it was about six NJ yhths
old. A year later l married gilbert
Van Buren,, but he was a poor prop
osition, SO / divorced him In about
two years. After a years courtship
| then married Harvey Elsyick. We
We're getting along nicely when
Harvey shot a saloon keeper and
was sent to the penitentiary. I
personally petttioned tho governor
of West Virginia to pardon him.
which he did, But Harvey proved
ungrateful and l divorced him. Then
I met Howard Dunn and married
him the same day, hut found that he
was out on parole from Sing Sing
and quickly divorced him. About a
year later / met Bill White and
married him in Baltimore, but il he
gets out Of this trouble and starts
any of his foolishness / am going
to lose him like did tho others.
and don't know OF any law which
prevents one from marrying the sew
enth time.
and just think of It, am not
yet 80 year old. Yet I surely have
had variety OF husbands and could
deliver good lecture to prospective
brides. / am not opposed to mar
rage. think it is a grand institn-
tion, II the right people are mated.
I am going to keep ON trying until I
find the right one. TRY, try again,
is my motto" II