Alameda-Marin County CA Archives Marriages.....Ashton, Mary S. (Coney) - Monroe, Augustus Robert September 20, 1906
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San Francisco Call, October 9, 1906
“ANOTHER ROMANCE IN COLLEGE TOWN 

Mrs. Frank Ashton Announces Her Secret Marriage to Augustus Monroe 

BERKELEY, Oct. 8.— Mrs. Frank Ashton, in whose divorce suit three years ago a 
lot of love letters from Rear Admiral Merry, U. S. N., were introduced, gave 
society in the college town a surprise today by announcing that she was 
secretly married to Augustus Monroe of Berkeley on September 20 at San Rafael. 
Justice of the Peace McGee performed the ceremony. 

Mrs. Monroe has had a picturesque career. She was a Honolulu girl, Miss Mary 
Coney of the well-known Coney family in Hawaii. She married Frank Ashton in 
the '90's [1893] and came to the mainland, where she kept up a correspondence 
with Rear Admiral Merry, whom she had met on the islands. When the Ashton 
divorce suit was tried the love letters from the naval officer were introduced 
and created a sensation. 

After the divorce Ashton kidnaped [sic] his little girl, Leonie, from the 
mother, and a chase up and down the coast for the baby brought the Ashtons 
again to the front. Later the pair remarried [1905] and lived at 1721 Grove 
street, in Berkeley, until Ashton's violent death last winter. He was drowned 
in the bay near Alameda.” END

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San Francisco Call, October 9, 1906 (Tuesday), Page 6, Column 1.

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