The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-06
GRE T. Il Owe
ST OR les
Of HIST! d 9 /. e !.
SABRAHAMsLIN
a and MARY TODD
BY -AIbsrt Payso1 Terhnne
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n9is = ro,,iy. it.s she was engaged 70
~, isIAer VINO enaa spent 9 lew
800 sss =. W tavern. p iStOl young
Ao ntltese, Llaeoih came 20 Town ana
p.ooeeueaS.o iose ms near 70 her. he
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aa9 iiaa y. 70 Mork nafa ior a
pare lting, The sgentleness and bril-
sna weEe MASKED s'.V oenina ms ms
ott! eA!esior were not Oh me SOFT
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nue ms aid NOT prevent Lincoln from
eraatas. IL. .M %as ~. me Htss anu
o y. 80 y a.. n.s ms
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WIZ solhs On she sicSenea ana diea.
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Ls ns,a wi k,ew; ms; Ifiehas reared
Mss so.as lnsa9et ms enaracler
soesAs't' = '4Aesfppenoiy .hats llarAea MS
His First iaee ~ manner
Love story, as ions US ne
,, ~, |, = s..,.:;- iseq. 'Alte.. her
iu ~, he ourss into Tears, sopping:
euii never oe Eeconc el'a 70 maze
'ne 9,o" anu ram peal upon her
e'a,e.f s
Many years later ne told q friend In
commence: MY heart lies in that
GIFTS grave! so entirely did GRIEF
master MN mat when, long atterward,
ne became engaged TO a Kentucky
girl mary owen, ne Is said TO have
asked her 70 release him from the
match because he could not love her
ner as ne should, MS MIND sttll cling
ing 70 the memory OF Anne ,Rutledge.
IL was In lS4O that another Ken.
lucky GIL Mary 1000, came TO Spring
held, Ill, where Lincoln was prnctic-
ing iaw. lie became engaged to her,
though from the ilrst he showed per-
maps iess ioyerlike araor tnan tne
occasion eanea LOT. Inc Weaoing gay
arrived anu the guests assembled cd But put
Lincoln aid not appear. Inere was an IN
aWkwaro pause, men inc Wedding
pus,y, @onnaerting b p.okc ap,t Inc
orlaegrooms nerve We haa apparently
a,leu MN y ehe iast moment. He lang ana
MISS oaa were reconciiea py friends
ana IN le4z Tue engagement was
pa.cnea up, ones incioent that may, OF
may not nave nad something 10 10 with
bringing snem logether again was me
iact 'hat bliss !oaa wrote anonymous
y = SCI OIL salric verses Whlch OF
ienaea james snleias, poiitical en-,
envy OIL Lincoln s. shieids demanded
10 KNOW tne author name. Lincoln
cnisairously came forward ana TOOK
upon himselt me responsieility for the
ehtlre aIaiT' sneies enahengea MN
70 ouei; Lincoln accepted the cnai,
lense ana cnose cavalry sapers as tne
weapons. wise men IN me eommu'
MY reconciiea tne opponents ana no
aue' was lougnt' 49,,
Two months later Lincoln and Mary
Todd were married. One biographer
says that Lincoln went through his
share In the wedding ceremony "as
pale and trembling as II being driven
to slaughter" The young couple
started married life on the upper floor
OF an inn. where board and, lodging
cost them "a week. Even at that.
they were often hard pressed !, for,
ready money, praeticing every econ
omy. There can be little doubt that