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After an Absence of SevenYears andFinds Wife is Married toAnother Man.Some twelve years agone a young Lothario by the name of Claud Hammond from Nowhere in particular and ' everywhere generally cast his misfor-! tueses in the county of Butts. SoonVthereafter be paid court to Miss Kit-1 **! tie McKleroy, a daughter of the41 “Parson ,” who was then a neghbor-hood belle with the bloom of peaches]and cream in her cheeks. Tnrough a storm of parental “vence yer ups” they dashed to Hymen’s altar and were there pronounced one.Before 12 months Hammond hadibeen convicted of carrying a pistol, after this was settled went to thechaingang twelve months for breaking jail and allowing other prisoners to escape. He then came home and after a brilliant career here for aboutfour months lie left his wife and babyand slid out for greener pastures. About a year after his departurehis wife claims to have received a letter from a man in New York containing the melancholly announcement that her husband was dead.The wife then turned the two littleHammond children over to her mother and married a man by the name ofBrooks and now lives near Jcnkins-burg.On Wednesday night Brooks ambled in at ‘‘Parson” McKleroys andasked to see his child.‘■(Treat spoons.” said the ‘‘Parson “ain’t you dead?”Naw, I ain’t dead from the looks o’these 210 pounds, and I just ’lowedI’d drap in an’ see the baby.”• “Baby, nothing, you’ve got two children here instead of one and thatain’t all—your wife has married againand has another family.Tt seemed to arnuso the man tohear tha his wife had married again and so he departed, leaving the “Par son” to wonder where tho man hadbeen, where he was going and what woud happen next.
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Jackson Argus
Jackson, Georgia, US
Fri, Sep 14, 1900
Page 12
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Janice R.
GA, USA 24 Jun 2020
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