Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-15
MUCH MARRIED MAN j
Uncle Newt Lining Aged go, Married
Seven Times.

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Uncle Newt Lining Aged go, Married
Seven Times.
Uncle Newt Lining peered out
through the heavily barred door OF
the hospital section of the Fulton
county Tower, or Jail, and said he
was hoping to get his bond arranged
Thursday. afternoon writes o. B. Keel
er in the Atlanta Journal.
"It's been reduced to $780," he. said.
adding that Of all the time. he had
been married, he never had been
married twice at once before, anG
that the present instance, which ac-
counted for Uncle Nevis presence in
the Tower, was all a mistake.
I'm. so years old" said Uncle
Newt reflectively. ~, started getting
married in 1852. have been getting
married ever since. Seven times, in
all, If this last time. counts. They all
died but this one and the one before
her.. and I; thought she died, too. or ]
certainly never woulSdI have married
the last time" re l....
Uncle. Newt reflected some more
Ind issued a correction of his age.
."I said so, but I won't be so until
next. July" he said, II served four
years in the civil war, in the Sixth
Georgia cavalry.
| Uncle Newt Illuminated again.
II told Judge Hatho6ck how it was
yesterday and he reduced my bond to
5000. My sixth wife and I were sep
arated. She was living in Porterdale,
Ga. and 1 got letter from her son
she had been married before mar
ried her-saying she was dead. A few
months later I decided to get mar
ried again"
...: Favors Matrimony.
+ asked Uncle. Newt a hesitating
question:: .,,1sry:. ,.,l
What do you thing Of matrimony
as an institution?' .;...
Uncle Newt also hesitated.
IF I make You out ] think it's
good idea," he finally responded. II
think man ought ta,.be married. I
suppose there is such "a, thing as mar
rying to excess. From what the Bible
says Solomon married a good deal
more than he exactly had any busi:-
ness to. Once at 4 time Is all right,
though. 1t seems I Hlarried, twice at
the same time, without meaning to
at all, and hence, am in here until
that bond gets flxef up"
Uncle Newt has seventeen children
living, and good many grandchil-
dren. At GLIB Savannah street, he
lives, with two sons and their wives
and five grandchildrenr The flock was
eagerly waiting news from their sire,
sire-in-law and grandsire Thursday
morning.
At GLIB Savannah street I got
small picture Of the sterling patri-
arch, taken a couple of years ago in
Columbus, l was going to get a mod
ern picture of him at the jail. but
Uncle Newt demurred.
wait till get a shave" he said,
which again brought the question of
bond into the foreground. 1t also
caused me to suspect Uncle Newt of
n certain vanity-not unwarranted.
perhaps, in 4 man who has enjoyed
such pronounced AND repeated sue
cess in affairs Of the heart.
Look Young.
Uncle Newt does. not look. to be
eighty years old, or even as if he
would be eighty years old next July,
He is rugged and straight, with broad
shoulders and thick chest. Under
the bristly white whiskers his jaw Is
firm and square. He looks like de-
Itermined citizen, but. not greatly, like
ladies' man. Still. YOU never can
tell.
Uncle Newt has scored about as
WELL or at least rs often, as such cele-
bratcd anti-celibates as Nat Good
win, Henry the Eighth, DeWolf Hop
per and Kid Mccoy. And at eighty
or on the verge Of it, he is still going
strong. A little too strong. by reason
OF an honest mistake, he says.