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Intriguing Smyrna Bride Weds Widower With Past Trio
The Smyrna Delaware wedding records Benjamin Abbott and Mrs Mary Pratt tying the knot on the 30th. The bride, the seventh wife of seven husbands, has a notorious past life as gossip swirls over her long sequence of marriages to widowers. The groom is a quiet elder with sufficient means. Mrs Abbott, once Mrs Pratt, is linked to Kent County Sheriff Henry Pratt’s lineage and a history of eight marriages. The Times notes her seven husbands and a prophetic line about seven marriages, now fulfilled with a wreath of scandal.
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Benjamin
Abbott
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Smyrna
Delaware
Henry Pratt
Kent County
Miss Williams
Triax
Barrow
Riggs
Wallace
Berry
Mra. Pratt
the Times