Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-02
welded 10 Times
BRIDE TELLS Of
MARITAL BLISS
Feed Husband Well and Avoid
Gossip, She ADVISES Also
Don't Overlook Keeping
Home in Order

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N. Louis, Mo, Jan 1.-The long
distance matrimonial records of Nat
Goodwin and Lillian Russell have
hpen shattered by Mrs Mary Nj. Dyer,
Ak. of Parnell, Mo. who has just been
married for the tenth time. Though 1t
!, the brides tenth trip to the altar,
me bridegroom. James Dyer, ~, of
rnttawa, KY, Is her eighth husband,
she having married a former spouse,
carpenter Smith, lof stanberry, Mo-,
three times. lie was her second hus-
band named Smith.
TO her friends she has admitted
that She thought more of him than
ans Of the others, though she d.
vorced him on two occasions. These
were her only divorce suits.
All Of Mrs. Dyer's former husbands
are dead. She buried Carpenter
smith soon after their third wedding,
which took place following one of
their divorce intefims in which she
had married and buried James A.
nm. husband number six. Two Of
Ire husbands lie side by side ~ .
cemetery at Stanberry. Mo.
That she never mas had children Of
her own is the chief regret Of her
Ike. Mrs. Dyer declares, She adopted
Two girls, who are now grown women
ana have left her. And that is ono
reason why she used a want al and
obtained her present mate.
Mrs. Dyer's matrimonial career be.
San forty years dgo. she was
Mary NJ. Moore and was born near
Hanesylllc, .. Whom years old she
moved TO schuyler county, H., where
M the age of Is, she married George
w. smith, who died a few years la
Ter. Then She married Charles Pea.
body. who lived in the same neigh
borhood. After his death She became
the wife Of another neighbor, Johr
pcttliohn. with whom she moved tc
Missouri in 1881.
Following his death she was mar.
ried to Carpenter Smith. who was nc
relation to her first husband. George
w. Smith.
happy but her life with the secont
smith was not smooth. She obtained
divorce. but in short time the,
became reooneiled and were remar
ried Again they disagreed and agar
they were divorced.
This time the period of separation
was longer, and Mrs. Smith went ava,
ON visit, where she married james
il. Hill Hill did not I've long. how
eyer. and after his funeral his widow
returned to the neighborhood wher'
she had lived with Carpenter Smith
They met again, and again they de
cided TO journey through life together
so for the seventh time she was mar
ried, and for the third time to Car
pointer Smith. They lived togethe
happily until his death, which oc
CURED near stanberry.
Mrs Smiths eighth marriage wa!
to Fred Mooman, also of near Stan
berry The couple lived there unit
Mooman died and he was buried II
the same lot with Carpenter Smith.
After Moomans death Mrs. Moo
man left Stanberry, and the next he
friends there learned of her she wa
married TO william Brown. Mr. AM
Mrs Brown lived together for severa
years az different paints in northwes
Missouri and about two years ag'
they moved from Grant City, whcr
they had been living. TO Parnell, a
which place Mr.. Brown died yea
ago
After his death Mrs Brown wa
lonely again Without child, sh
was fond of children and during on
of her former marriages she ha'
adopted two small girls, whom sh
reared to womanhood. But they wer
women now married and gone.
Mrs Brown had little home o
her own and wanted a companion I
share IT,
She corrosponded and then cam
the tenth marriage with James N
Dyer, of Cuttawa, Ky.
Meets Latest Husband.
The two met for the first time 4
their lives on the depot platform a
savannah. Mo. She had sent him
photograph taken Of herself twent
Years ago.
you don't look like your picture,
Mr. Dyer frankly told her, after h
had given her a critical inspectio
through his polished spectacles.
Don't you think so?~ she answere
smiling why, | would have know