AN UNUSUAL WEDDING.
A wedding tcokihoe daring November last year in Virginia under somewhat peculiar oiroumstances. The bridegroom, who rejoiced in the high-sounding name of Marcus de Lafayette Hawley, was under sentence of death for shooting the man who bad evicted him from his holding in Poor Mountain in June last. The bride, a Miss Nannie Hawkins, was the mother of two of his children, and it was to legitimatise these children and fulfil his promises to their
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Evening Star, Issue 5592, 9 February 1881, Page 4
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78AN UNUSUAL WEDDING. Evening Star, Issue 5592, 9 February 1881, Page 4
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