Butts County GaArchives News.....After an Absence of Seven Years and………. Finds Wife is Married to Another Man July 14, 1900
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Jackson Argus July 14, 1900
Some twelve years agone a young Lothario by the name of Claude Hammond from 
Nowhere in particular and everywhere generally cast his misfortunes in the 
county of Butts.  Soon thereafter he paid court to Miss Kittie McKleroy, a 
daughter of the “Parson,” who was then a neighborhood belle with the bloom of 
peaches and cream in her cheeks.  Through a storm of parental:”vence yer uups” 
(?) they dashed to Hymen’s altar and were there pronounced one.

Before 12 months Hammond had been convicted of carrying a pistol, after this 
was settled went to the chain gang twelve months for breaking jail and allowing 
other prisoners to escape.  He then came home and after a brilliant career here 
for about four months he left his wife and baby and slid out for greener 
pastures.

About a year after his departure his wife claims to have received a letter from 
a man in New York containing the melancholy announcement that her husband was 
dead.

The wife turned the two little Hammond children over to her mother and married 
a man by the name of Brooks and now lives near Jenkinsburg.

On Wednesday night Brooks ambled in at “Parson” McKleroys and asked to see his 
child.

Great spoons.  Said the Parson, aint you dead?

Naw, I aint dead from the looks of these 210 pounds, and I just lowed I’d drap 
in an see the baby.

Baby, nothing, you’ve got two children here instead of one and that aint all----
your wife has married again and has another family.

It seemed to amuse the man to hear that his wife had married again and so he 
departed, leaving the Parson to wonder where the man had been, where he was 
going and what would happen next.

Jackson Argus – Butts county
Week of July 14, 1900






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