DEATHBED WEDDING.
BRIDE FOR A DAY AFTER 7000 MILKS VOYAGE. A Sir. and Mrs. Bentley, of Stone, Staffordshire, recently received news from Canada of tho tragic termination of a romance in which 'their daughter Lydia was a .central figure. Miss Bciitle,,-, who was a trained nurse, went out to Christchureli, New Zealand, to join her relatives, and subsequently travelled to Canada, a distance of 7000 milos. to bo married to .Air. Oswald Hill, a prosperous farmer of Alberta. On rho voyage, however, she was taken ill, and at Edmonton, where she was mci; by her fin-nose, she was conveyed to hospital. Shortly after her arrival ,».t Edmonton Miss Bc-ntley, while lying in what proved to be her-deathbed, was married to 11 r. Hill. The day after the wedding tho doctors found it necessary to perform a critical operation, under which the young bride died.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 4
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144DEATHBED WEDDING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 4
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