Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — “SHE’S OWER YOUNG TO MARRY’ [ARTICLE]

“SHE’S OWER YOUNG TO MARRY’

Girl of Ten to Become the Wife of a Man of Sixty-Seven, and the Reason. Ellicott City, Md„ Aug. 21. A license has been issued for the marriage of Bev*,, George S. Fitzhugh, aged sixty-scvCn, and Lulu V. Frazier, a ten-year-old girl. The proposed marriage hasj-not Jot taken place. Fitzhugh suffered a severe attack of heart disease after obtaining the license, and he is now said to be critically ill. Fitzhugh is understood to be an Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, of which state the little girl is also a native. When the license was sectired a necessary letter of assent from the girl’s mother was exhibited to *the clerk. The explanation of the peculiar case is said to be that the Rev. Mr. Fitzhugh desires to make little Miss Frazier his heiress, and that his object cannot be attained to his satisfaction byNthe adoption of the child.