El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-07

Z was very small and sprightIy. She
| had been taken to Tennessee from
/ Virginia when she was u years old,
! and at II was married to RObards.
] Immediately after the marriage, Ro-
bards took her to his home in Ken
| lucky They had troubles from tbe
/ start RObards was hard, despotic,
and intensely jealous. If his wife
| smoke to another man he became fu-
riOus He was particularly jealous of
a neighbor named Short His mother
| and all his family sympathized with
the young wife, whose conduct thew
said, was above reprOach. This served
only to infuriate RObards, and in the
third year of their marriage, he dis
| carded her. The girl wife returned to
her mother A few months later RO-
bards begged forgiveness. The pair
became recOnciled and they were liv-
ing with Mrs. DOnelsOn when Andrew
Jackson went there to board
Robards was handsome and british.
Jackson was long and lean, but sim
gularly attractive. RObards became
insanely jealous of him. Jackson tried
to reason with him, but it was no
use. They had an alteration and
jackson proposed a duel Robards
had no desire for a pistol fight and
Jackson left the DOnelsOn house and
boarded elsewhere. Thereupon, RO-
bards again discarded his wife and
went to Kentucky. In 1880 he insti-
tuted a suit for divorce on the grounds
that his wife had deserted him and
was living with another man. Ken
lucky was then a part of Virginia
Under the Virginia law it was neees-
sary. in order to obtain a divorce, for
the legislature to pass an act author
iZing one of the parties to bring suit;
empowering the court TO empanel the
jury and take testimony, and finally,
il the court and jury thought the evil
denCe sufficient permitting them to
annUl the marriage.
Early in 1871 the legislature of Vir-
ginia passed an act on the plea of
RObards 1t was in four sections. The
first section authorized Robards to
sue and specified that the writ should
be published eight consecutive weeks
in the Kentucky Gazette. Sections
two and three provided for commits
siOners to take dispositions. Section
four provided for the trial
RObards didn't have the evidence on
which to proceed and he let the mat
ter lapse Meanwhile, Jackson and Mrs.
Robs1.Ss resd The annOnncement as
published in the kentucky Gazette"
They were in love and were eager to
marry. They assumed that Robards
was pushing the case and they thought
a divorce had been granted. In No
vember. 1871, they went to Natchez,
Mississippi, and were married. They
returned to Nashville and lived as man
and wife until December, 1873 Then
they were astOunded at the news that
the circuit court OF Mercer county,
Kentucky, had lust granted a divorce
TO RObardS and Lnat the proof was JnaI
Mrs. RObards had been living in adul-
terry with Jackson since their alleged
two years before in Natchez
Married a Second Time.
Mrs. Jackson went back to her moth
err remained with her for a month and
then in January, 1884, she and jackson
were married the second time. The
gossip that the case entailed changed (
Mrs. JacksOn's whole view Of life. From
a bright fun loving young woman she /
became a grave, reserved matrOn. jack /
son took all the blame on himself. He, /
rs a lawyer knew the law. He should /
have satisfied himself as to the status /
IF the suit before proceeding to Match /
sz to get married. Mention of the /
natter by a man made him furious, but /
knowledge of his carelessness only I
ldded to his consideration for his wife /
md to the tenderness of his love for /
ler. Through all the 81 years that /
hey lived together he sought to make /
amends for the sorrow he had brought :
% her through his CaTelessness. The
very fact that he was so fOrCefUl and
.limbed so high, magnified the import
lnce Of that error in regard to the
2Obards divorce. Successful men make
enemies. ImperiOus ones like Jackson
make many Of them.
In 1875, Tennessee applied for state
sood- Jackson was a member of the