Greene County GaArchives News.....Believing Other Dead Each Party Remarries (McElroy - Tarlpey - Wray) August 11 1904
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The Atlanta Constitution, August 11, 1904
Greensboro, Ga., August 10.-(Special.) Quite a peculiar story has developed in 
real life near Greensboro, rather a series of events, in which years have 
passed and all the years full of happenings.  In it a woman of Georgia and a 
man, now of Texas, but a former Georgian, are the principal characters, both 
living for twenty-five years totally oblivious of the existence of the other, 
each believing the other dead.

Thirty-two years ago in this county B. T. McElroy and Miss Tarpley were 
married, lived together four or five years and had several children born to 
them.  During the sixth year of their married life Mr. McElroy decided to 
travel in some of the western states, and so he left his wife and children in 
Greene county and started on his journey, intending soon to return.

However, after getting out west he remained longer than he anticipated, and 
information that he believed to be thoroughly reliable was brought him that 
his wife was dead.  She, not hearing from him, also concluded that he was dead.

Eventually Mr. McElroy discontinued his travels and settled in Texas and began 
preaching.  Believing his wife dead, and ten years having elapsed, he married 
again and now has living in the state of Texas a wife and eleven children.

Mrs. McElroy, also laboring under the belief that her husband was no longer in 
the land of the living, married again, this time Ben Wray, who died several 
years ago, and who was a farmer in this county until the time of his death.  
Two children blessed this union of Mrs. McElroy and Mr. Wray, she also taking 
care of and raising her children by her first husband.

Now after a lapse of twenty-five years Mr. McElroy decides to revisit the 
scenes of his youth and so decides to come back to Greensboro, which he had 
left so many years ago.  The state of affairs that confronts him is a most 
peculiar one, his first wife living here, her second husband dead, his 
children that he left when little, now grown to be men and women, the children 
of Mrs. McElroy’s second union also being grown, and as stated he also having 
a wife and eleven children living in Texas.

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