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AUBURN, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY I, 1909.AGED COUPLE COMPLY WITH LAW FORMSAFTER LTOGETHER 21 YEARSWOMAN RAN AWAY FROM FORMER HUSBAND, CONTRACTED COM-MON LAW MARRIAGE WITH PRESENT HUSBAND — NOW THEY ARE LEGALLY MARRIED.Lebanon, Ind., June 26.—After living together as husband and wife for twenty-seven years at their home in Thorntown, D. H. Rammel, seventy-three years old, and Mrs. Lucinda P. .Rammel, seventy-five, were married yesterday.They applied for a marriage license yesterday and Mrs. Rammel gave the clerk her name as Rammel. The couple would tell nothing about themselves other than that they were of no blooded relation. At Thorntown they at first stated they had nothing to give to the public concerning their strange actions in getting the marriage license.Yesterday, however, a romance was revealed which only the children of Mrs. Rammel knew besides herself and husband. According to the story, the romance began in 1882 at Mechanics-burg. near Lebanon. Rammel and Mrs. Rammel, then the wife of a man named Black, eloped to Ohio. Mrs. Rammel left their five children in the care of the husband. In Ohio, according to a statement by Mr. Rammel. they contracted a common law marriage.Mrs. Rarnmel’s first husband died in 1888. Before he died he secured a divorce from his wife. The couple then moved to Thorntown, near their former home, and have resided there since. Four of Mrs. Rammel’s children, of which her former husband was the father, are still living, and it was through their efforts that the couple was married yesterday according to law. The marriage caused considerable talk at Thorntown as the people never had a suspicion that the couple had not been married long ago.
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Auburn Courier
Auburn, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1909
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