Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-26
BLUSHIHG BRIDE
AT BEAUV0IR HOME
Giddy Young Things in the
Seventies Fall for Gu
pid's Wiles.

GULFFORT, Miss, Nov 25.-ln
three small rooms overlooking the
Gulf OF Mexico and lawn upon which
jefferson Davis strolled IN his last
years, three old couplos- just married
have started Housekeeping now. The
Youngest bride is 6i years of age; the
Youngest groom Is a. The three
couples staged "A triple wedding and
each participant had been married be-
fore.
The brides and groomc were in
mates of the jefferson Davis BcauN0ir
Soldiers Home-an institution dcdi-
Gated to making comfortable the de
clining years OF the veterans and Wild
Ows OF veterans of the Confederate
states
More than two hundred old. feeble
and INDECENT men and women live At
FcauVoir. Then occupy the dormi-
tories that lie about the big old-iash-
ionod mouse that the president of the
confederacy occupied after he was re
/ leased from prison. He came to guli
coast of Mississippi for socluslon and
there he wrote THE Rise and Fan OF
| the ConfcdCracN'
F,lnathan Tartt, superintendent of
/ the home was Informed that thrc"
/ lonely veterans and three lonely wild
ows wanted To marry. They bushirgN
/ agreed to Il triple ceremony and II Vas
/ held ON the wide porch of the old
/ Davis mansion. The aggregate num-
/ bor of years lived 10y the SIX partIci-
| pants is 42l.
w H. Benton. age "a. took as his
/ bride Mrs. Sarah Cronkhitc, age 60.
| j. V. Schillingcr, age IS. married Mrs.
| Alice Weeks, age Ga. j. l.. Richctts,
| age "A. was wed to Mrs. kobccca RiN-
| crs. age s.. Both Mr.. Benton and his
wife have been married twice before.
| Mr.. Schillingcr was a one-timo wild
/ over: Mrs. Schillinger has buried two
| husbands. Nh and Mrs. Richius have
each been married once before. Mrs.
| Rickitts first husband died at Beau
I Voir.
There were few wedding presents.
| Gifts were hardly expected. However.
the three couples are to be guests OF
/ honor at the Mississippi Centennial
4 exposition on "Coufcdcratc Veteran
/ Day" They will also get pass to the
. centennial amuscments and that
! counts for something MisslsSippis s
centennial Is a year away, but the
brides and grooms believe they nave
many years before them and all they
/ have to 90 is to spend protracted
honeymoon at BcauVoiI-m minus any
worry about the high cost of living.
- We been married three times now
each time to a Confederate soldier
said Mrs Benton. At the moment she
was making tidy the one room in
which the couple live. Each couple
was assigned a dormitory room after
the ceremony \ parrot sduawkcd at
the doorway of the Schillingcr resi-
dencc nearby.
Each newly veteran was
wounded in the war, but Mr.. Benton
is the only one with outward evidence
of the fact. lie lost an arm on the
/ last day of the war.
The state of Mississippi and the
Mississippi Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams contribute to the support of
Beauvoir The veterans and widows
of veterans bear no expense whatever
and are content especially so when
/ cupid calls.
BeauVoir's triple wedding is "A con-
slant topic ut the home and folks all
along the picturesque gulf coast, and
the tourist who comes here to spend
his winters. seek out the brides and
grooms when visiting the former home
of the leader of the lost cause"