Macon-Logan-Christian County IL Archives News.....Reason Mrs. Ulysses Brown Left New One November 29, 1904
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The Decatur [IL] Review November 29, 1904
Looks Like Her Other Husband

Was Bride of a Day

Said She Liked Him, but She Couldn't Stay

Because her new husband looked too much like her former husband, from whom she 
had been divorced for three years, and because she did not think she would 
like married life, Mrs. Ulysses Brown left her husband, after a married life 
of something over twenty-four hours, and returned with her trunk to 
Taylorville, where her people live.

Married Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were married on Saturday afternoon in the county court room 
by Judge O. W. Smith. Mrs. Brown came over from Mt. Pulaski, where she has 
been lately, to be married. After the ceremony the couple went to the groom's 
home, 231? East Leafland avenue, where he lives with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Dewitt.
Everything was serene on Sunday and things went pleasantly. On Monday morning 
before he left for his work at the Talt foundry, where he was a moulder, Brown 
asked Dewitt, who is a driver for Norman's laundry, to get his wife's trunk at 
the depot. His wife quietly informed him that she would "attend to the trunk." 
He put no inner meaning on the words, though he was impressed with the idea 
that this was a queer thing for her to do. But he left a dollar for her to pay 
for the transportation and went to his work.

Long Talk

On returning home in the evening Mrs. Dewitt informed him his wife had 
returned to her parents in Taylorville. Then she told him that his wife had a 
long conversation with her, lasting all morning. She had told Mrs. Dewitt that 
she did not feel like living a married life, that she had nothing against her 
present husband except that he looked like Mr. Mathews, from whom she was 
divorced three years ago, and that she was going "back to her home."

She said she was sorry for Mr. Brown, that she did like him very much, and 
that he was the kind of man who would treat a wife as she should be treated, 
but that she did not want to be married. She asked Mrs. Dewitt to explain if 
she could to her husband when he came home, for she would not wait to see him 
again.

Would get divorce.

She said she would herself sue for divorce, and that she knew her husband 
would not make any objection to the suit. Then she left the house, going 
presumably to the depot and taking the train for Taylorville.

When he was told of his wife's departure Mr. Brown was most astounded, for he 
was utterly unprepared for it. He, however, decided that he would not follow 
her up, that if she wanted to leave him she would be in no wise hindered, and 
that he would not fight a divorce.

Mr. Brown knew his bride of a day for only about three or four months. He knew 
her in Mt. Pulaski where she lived until the time she came here to marry him. 
Her parents are named Puc and live in Taylorville.

Mr. Brown had been married twice before. Both of his former wives died.

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