Marriage of Miss Louisa Harris to James Waddell
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Marriage of Miss Louisa Harris to James Waddell
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Posted: 1 Apr 2009 6:39PM GMT |
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Appears in the Terrell Times-Star, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas, 14 July 1893 ...
A Bridegroom Baffled
Col. Jim Harris was last Monday and Tuesday was the custodian of his granddaughter, Miss Louisa Harris, the 14 year old daughter of Mr. Dick Harris, of Nevada, Collin County, who on last Sunday ran away and was married to James Waddell, of Nevada.
The circumstances attending the marriage as related to the Times-Star by Col. Jim, were as follows:
Waddell had been paying his attentions to Miss Harris for sometime, though against the wishes of her father. On last Sunday morning he took advantage of Mr. Harris' absence in Arkansas to marry the young lady. The matter was prearranged between them. Miss Harris, in company with several other young ladies, started, so they told Mrs. Harris, for church. Instead of going to the church, however, they went to the Baptist parsonage, where Waddell and the minister were waiting their arrival. When all had arrived the ceremonhy was solemnized and the entire party took their departure for Farmersville to spend the day. At Farmersville two cousins of the bride heard rumors of the marriage and that evening followed the bridal party back to Nevada, where they found the mother of the girl grief-stricken on account of the marriage. The two cousins offered their assistance to rescue their daughter. Itwas accepted. The bridal party at this time were having a gay time at the home of one of the groom's friends. At about 8 o'clock a vehicle bearing the cousins, the mother and the elder sister of the bride drove up to the house and Mrs. Harris called for her daughter to come out to the gate. She came running out to the gate to greet her mother, when strong arms seized and lifted her into the vehicle and she was driven rapidly away. She was brought to her grandfather in this city, her cousins accompanying her, arriving in Terrell at sunrise Monday morning.
Monday Col. Jim Harris received a telegram from the mother of the girl, stating that it was rumored that Waddell with a party of his friends would sweep down upon the house of her daughter's protector and forcibly take her from him. She beseeched him to protect her daughter. Col. Jim took all necessary precautions and had the groom and his friends come on the purpose designated they would have very probably received a reception in thorough accord with the temperature of the weather. Mr. Waddell and his friends did not make the expected onslaught. Mr. Dick Harris, the father of the girl, came home, however, Tuesday morning. Having learned on his return from Arkansas of his daughter's marriage, he mounted his horse and rode post haste to Terrell. He returned to his home in Nevada Tuesday afternoon taking his daughter with him, whom he will give the alternative of living at home or with the young man she married.
Waddell is 20 years of age, Miss Harris but 15. It is presumed that Waddell procured the license by misrepresenting the girl's age. It is also said that he represented to the preacher who married them that all differences between himself and the young lady's parents had been settled and that they were perfectly willing that they should marry.
A Bridegroom Baffled
Col. Jim Harris was last Monday and Tuesday was the custodian of his granddaughter, Miss Louisa Harris, the 14 year old daughter of Mr. Dick Harris, of Nevada, Collin County, who on last Sunday ran away and was married to James Waddell, of Nevada.
The circumstances attending the marriage as related to the Times-Star by Col. Jim, were as follows:
Waddell had been paying his attentions to Miss Harris for sometime, though against the wishes of her father. On last Sunday morning he took advantage of Mr. Harris' absence in Arkansas to marry the young lady. The matter was prearranged between them. Miss Harris, in company with several other young ladies, started, so they told Mrs. Harris, for church. Instead of going to the church, however, they went to the Baptist parsonage, where Waddell and the minister were waiting their arrival. When all had arrived the ceremonhy was solemnized and the entire party took their departure for Farmersville to spend the day. At Farmersville two cousins of the bride heard rumors of the marriage and that evening followed the bridal party back to Nevada, where they found the mother of the girl grief-stricken on account of the marriage. The two cousins offered their assistance to rescue their daughter. Itwas accepted. The bridal party at this time were having a gay time at the home of one of the groom's friends. At about 8 o'clock a vehicle bearing the cousins, the mother and the elder sister of the bride drove up to the house and Mrs. Harris called for her daughter to come out to the gate. She came running out to the gate to greet her mother, when strong arms seized and lifted her into the vehicle and she was driven rapidly away. She was brought to her grandfather in this city, her cousins accompanying her, arriving in Terrell at sunrise Monday morning.
Monday Col. Jim Harris received a telegram from the mother of the girl, stating that it was rumored that Waddell with a party of his friends would sweep down upon the house of her daughter's protector and forcibly take her from him. She beseeched him to protect her daughter. Col. Jim took all necessary precautions and had the groom and his friends come on the purpose designated they would have very probably received a reception in thorough accord with the temperature of the weather. Mr. Waddell and his friends did not make the expected onslaught. Mr. Dick Harris, the father of the girl, came home, however, Tuesday morning. Having learned on his return from Arkansas of his daughter's marriage, he mounted his horse and rode post haste to Terrell. He returned to his home in Nevada Tuesday afternoon taking his daughter with him, whom he will give the alternative of living at home or with the young man she married.
Waddell is 20 years of age, Miss Harris but 15. It is presumed that Waddell procured the license by misrepresenting the girl's age. It is also said that he represented to the preacher who married them that all differences between himself and the young lady's parents had been settled and that they were perfectly willing that they should marry.