Spalding-Clarke County GaArchives Marriages.....Lida Imes - William Kilgore  December 28 1889
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net February 27, 2003, 6:54 pm

The Griffin Daily News and Sun. Griffin, Georgia, Tuesday Morning, December 31, 1889

A Runaway Marriage

On Saturday afternoon William Kilgore and Miss Lida Imes, operatives at the 
Kincaid M'fg. Co. Mills, appeared before Justice Stilwell with a properly issued 
license and after answering the usual questions were married by him. Shortly 
after the ceremony was performed a telephone message was received asking whether 
such parties had been married or not. An answer in the affirmative brought the 
parents of the bride down, who got out a a writ of habeas corpus, placed in the 
hands of Bailiff Johnson with instructions to arrest the bride, which he did 
about dark and the writ was heard before Ordinary Hammond later in the evening. 
The question arose as to whether the young lady was over fourteen years of age. 
Her mother swore that she was only twelve years old, the young lady saying she 
was several years older. Mrs. Imes did not have the family records which were 
near Athens, so the hearing was postponed until today in order to allow time for 
sending after the records. An order was read giving the young lady in charge of 
the bailiff until the hearing, whereupon she was escorted to the residence of 
Mr. Johnson to remain until the writ was decided.

(Transcribed 2/26/03 Lynn Cunningham)

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