Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1912 — WALK 30 MILES TO MARRY [ARTICLE]

WALK 30 MILES TO MARRY

Kentucky Mountaineer Runs Away in Blinding Snowstorm With „ 12-Yc.ar-Old Cousin. Whitesburg, Ky. Thirty miles “through a blinding snowstorm, with mountains to cross and angry parents behind them, came James Coombs, Jr., and Miss Virgie Coombs, hife cousin, to be married. They routed the clerk of courts from his bed early to give them a license and then persuaded the Rev. James E. Bradford to unite them. Later in the day they left Whitesburg on the trip back to the Perry county line, where they have both spent alt their lives/ —— The bridegroom is 20 and his wife has just passed her twelfth birthday. The bride wore dresses which came just below her knees.