A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Taylor http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2628 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=45234 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: Duluth News Tribune Article Date: July 3 1905 Article Description: Nine Husbands for One Woman. Eight of Them Died and Were Buried in a Row in Kentucky Cemetery. Article Text: Louisville, July 2.--The best cook and prettiest woman in Taylor county is Mrs. AYRES, who, although but 33 years old, has been married nine times and never been divorced. Her ninth marriage took place a few days ago. Her full name is Matilda Jane HARKINS-ELLET-BOARDS-WYCKTON-LOWMAN-HUDSONO-DUNMENIL-AYRES. AYRES. The new mate's name is Mason AYRES and if Mason AYRES should happen to join the colony of husbands on the mountain side two miles southwest of Lone Star, there would be others pleading for the opportunity to be No. 10. Up above the "Washfoot Baptist" church in the hills near Lone Star is the graveyard and the row of stones side by side, bear inscriptions that tell briefly the story of Mattie AYRES and her wedded life. For she has buried the eight husbands side by side, with graves just alike, with head and footstones in exact duplicate. The girl's romance commenced when she was fifteen years old and eloped with and married Morg ELLET. She saw Morg ELLET at Campbellsville one night when he played a solo with the Silver Cornet band and her heart was won. Eleven months after the elopement Morg went hunting. While he was sitting on a fence his rifle slipped, the hammer struck a rail, the bullet pierced his brain. Mattie ELLET remained a widow ten months when her heart went out to Stephen BOARDS, who was elderly, kindly and wealthy, owner of a large farm and much timber land. Everybody said she had married him for his money, and hated him accordingly. One day, within seven weeks of the wedding, as BOARDS was riding back toward Campbellsville after foreclosing a mortgage, he was shot from ambush and killed, and Mattie ELLET BOARDS became a wealthy widow. Again a swarm of wooers came around. But not one of them gained any advantage until Ed WYCKTON came from down about Gadberry in Adair county, where he had been operating an illicit still. One day, after they had been married for eight months, the revenue officers made a raid, and in the battle which followed, Mattie saw her husband throw up his hands and drop dead with a bullet in his brain. Widowed three times in as many years, Mattie HARKINS went back to live at home, near Lone Star, building a pretty home on the site of the rude house from which she eloped as a school girl. Two years later she married Nat LOWMAN who had been one of her girlhood lovers. Nat lived just two years, then died of consumption. She buried him beside the others and mourned for nine months then became the bride of Andy LOWMAN, Nat's brother. They lived happily for four years and one child, Mattie's first--came to bless the union. Then a tree fell the wrong direction as Andy was chopping it down. But eleven months after her fifth bereavement Manuel HUDSON came by chance to the home. There was no handsomer man in all Kentucky and he had been away to college, and was the "singingest" and guitar "pickingest" swain around the county. He won Mattie's love by his kindness to her little girl baby and six months after they met they were married. HUDSON was shot in a row at Frankfort the next year while lobbying in the legislature for a timber land bill, and one year later his widow was led to the altar by Pony DUNMENIL, a man from the blue grass, who met her at Frankfort when, as Mrs. HUDSON, she attended a session of the state legislature. DUNMENIL took her to live at Harrodsburg, but that same fall he was struck with heart disease and fell dead in the lobby of the Gibson house in Cincinnati. This did not stop the flocking of bachelors and widowers near Lone Star, and the unmarried girls made up their minds that the handsome multi-widow was stealing all the valuable men. Mason AYRES, a young saw-miller, was the ninth man to win her heart, and although they have been married for nearly two weeks he still remains happy and hearty and Mattie AYRES' "waiting list" is beginning to get discouraged. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com