Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — An Eloping Couple. [ARTICLE]

An Eloping Couple.

Charles I. Crumpacker and Bettie M. Covenery obtainedT fi inhfriage license of the county clerk last Tuesday and in the evening were married by Rev. S. B. Grimes at the M. E. parsonage. The young man gave his age at 24 years and that of his bride at 25. He made the necessary affidavit in obtaining the license, that the bride had been a resident of Jasper county for the 30 days required by law, but it is an old saying that Jove laughs at lovers’ perjuries. The young couple, who were evidently cultivated and intelligent, came from Porter county, the groom belonging to a prominent family of Valparaiso, and the bride being a student in that town, but having her home in Michigan.