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Webb City Woman, 34, This Time Marries Brother-in-Law Who Is Ten Years Younger.) FEARS MOTHERS-IN-LAWfcjBy Remaining in First Mate’s Family, Escapes Learning Characteristics of Relatives.I.fe-e11.t i -esoL-et.i-ut1royeei-ye8j Ufhl) City flurt«*ti,No. 5, Waterworks RMir.Webb City, Mo., May 26.—Information has been received in Webb City by relatives of Mrs. Jessie Young to the effect that Mrs. Young, widow of the late Norman Young,(j j had been married in lxs Angelas, k j Cal., to his brother, Grover Young, a former resident of Webb City.The situation surrounding the marriage of Mrs. Young to her late husband’s brother probably is one of unequaled interest, having no prece-e ! dent, so far as is known here, it being the third brother to whom she had been marled with the last seventeen years, f j About that many years ago Mrs. Young, then Miss Jessie Harrison, daughter of J. C. Harrison, a prominent real estate dealer in Webb City, was married to William Young. Three children were born to them. Five years ago Young died from paralysis, as the result of injuries received in a mine accident. jSecond One Killed.Two years later Mrs. Young was ' married to Norman Young, a brother of her dead husband. Their married life was broken short by his death on | May 2fi, 1912, in an accident at the Bird Dog mine, near here. He was killed almost instantly.Since the death of her second husband, Mrs. Young made her home in Webb City until about six weeks ago, . when she went to Los Angeles, accompanied by Grover Young, thethird brother, to whom, it Is said, she now- has been married. Mrs. Young is ten years older than her third husband, he being 24 and she i H4 years old.In explaining to one of her relatives here shortly before leaving for ‘‘alifornia h«r reason for marylng brothers, Mrs. Young is said to have stated that it relieved her of the Inconvenience of having to become acquainted with a new mother-in-law each time and the usual family tree of her husband.Vo GetAequalitted I'Wmallt ios.“Bv marrying brothers I am acquainted with their faults and dis-; likes beforehand.” Mrs. Young is t said to have declared. “I do not have to learn any more family histories or become acquainted with a long list of near relatives. It is exceedingly tiresome to have to gothrough those formalities, and any woman who must suffer the loss of her husband will do well If there is one and she Intends to remarry, to j marry her husband’s brother.Jesse Young, another brother, accompanied the couple to California. He intends to live there, for a timeat least. There Is still another brother, Claude, the oldest of the children, who is making his home In Webb City with his aged father, a widower. It is said that Claude Intends to leave shortly for California in order to be near his othe? brother*.1seB1I»0r !a.vn ia t► • f r l
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, May 27, 1913
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