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- - | ? I**Veteran and Bride Face Want for LoveKansas CITY.—Expelled from the Confederate Home at HigginsvJUe because they became engaged and were married several weeks ago, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Starns. both past 70 years old. came to try their future In Kansas City the other morning. The aged couple had just 15 cents when they arrived at the court house to apply for admission to the county home. Two small telescope suitcases contained all their worldly goods.Mr. Starns told fondly about the romance of a few weeks and the courtship “on the sly” In the Confederate Home.“You know, I was in Senator Cockrell's brigade and saw bard service inMfexiagippi, Alabama and Georgia during the four years of the Civil war.” Mr. Starns said. “I went to the Confederate Home eight years ago from Jackson county. There I met \V. B. Kills, my wife’s first husband. He died two years ago and his widow continued a resident of the home. She became ill five months ago and I was assigned to wait on her.“Well, we just got to talking to each other and decided that if younger talks could get married there wasn't any crime for older oneB to do thesame. I wanted n wife and she wanted a husband and we made up our minds that if we had to be thrown out into the cold world or anywhere else we would get married: I found that. ni5' heart was just as susceptible tb love as wrhen I was a youth and a whole regiment of Yankees couldn't have stopped us, either.“There were two other couples in the Confederate Home who wanted to get married. But there was a ban 011 marriage in the home. Five days ago. ' a little more than a month after wo were married, we were told we would have to move out. My wife had asthma and I wasn't able to work, so we were hard pressed for a place to stay and something to eat. Now we have found a home where it Isn't any crimo to be married.’’The bride and groom were assigned to a room at the county home. Mrs. Starns has lived in Jackson county more than forty years. Mr. Starns has been a resident of Missouri 70 years.
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The Libby Herald
Libby, Montana, US
Thu, May 16, 1912
Page 3
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