DEATH-BED MARRIAGES.
Death-bed marriage ar« not t.:« ui^.i^but^yliovo been runaikaoly ot iu-._ l ••• manias of the dying millionaire at Milwaukee to his private seeretmy, thus making her heiress to * fortune of eight millions, has two precedents of reeent date in London. A kindly thought of an old ago pensioner suggested, as ho lay dying, tnab he shoakl marry the nurse who had attended lum in his last illness, and the rsarnage entitled the nurae to an income ot a year for life from the city police. It was in this way, too, that after Jie American War of Independence aged pensioners rawardad their nurses, and there are to-day many widows on the pension roll of the United btatos whose husbands fought _ against England under George Washington,
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Lake County Press, Issue 1063, 7 May 1903, Page 7
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126DEATH-BED MARRIAGES. Lake County Press, Issue 1063, 7 May 1903, Page 7
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