Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — The Betrothed of James Buchanan. [ARTICLE]

The Betrothed of James Buchanan.

The Delphi (Ind.) Journal records the death of Elizabeth Smith, formerly of that place, in the 91th year of her age, and says : “ The subject of this sketch was of a proud and aristocratic family, and was a schoolmate of James Buchanan, and, had fortune favored, would have been the lady of the White House. The wedding clothes were prepared, the day set, and preparations made, when by sc me cause never revealed the match was broken, by a solemn pledge that neither would -. ver rnarry, a pledge that war. sacredly kepi.” Peter Adams, a colored man 110 years old, died m Houston county, Texet , la ! work.