caroline.txt Caroline Frost-McDonald-Walters-bronson-Burgess-Chevallier-Gardner-White-Luigi Contributed by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. From the March 20, 1925 Winnfield News-American HER NINTH HUSBAND Widow Caroline Frost-McDonald-Walters-Bronson-Burgess-Chevalier-Gardner-White- Luigi-, takes her Ninth Husband Urania, La., March 17-An unusual wedding was celebrated last week when Mrs. Caroline Luigi wedded her ninth husband, Mr. Hatfield of Ouachita Parish. She had known him for only a day or two, but Mrs. Luigi is a fast worker and when she goes after something she wants, she usually lands it. Aunt Caroline as Mrs. Luigi is usually called by her friends, believes in matrimony, and though she says she has picked several lemons, she believes the world owes her a good husband and she believes in the old adage "if at first you do not succeed, etc." She frankly admits that some of them have married for the sole purpose of getting some of her hard earned money, but she is very shrewd and proudly says that no man living will ever be able to fool her out of her money as long as her head is hot. Mrs. Luisi, or rather Mrs. Hatfield now, has a nice home and a good farm at Urania where she has lived most of her life and where she has accumulated quite a bit of worldly goods. She has no education, being unable to read or write, but has a wonderful memory and carries her accounts in her head. She signs her checks by mark, but if anyone gets the idea they can put something by her, they are due a surprise. When Aunt Caroline was in her very early teens she married Mr. McDonald of this neighborhood and had six or eight children by this union. After McDonald died, she married Mr. Walters, who lived with her for awhile, but she said he was not much of a husband and did not treat her very well and finally disappeared. Her third husband was Charles Bronson who came here from up North somewhere. After a very short courtship they were married.. To this union two or three children were born. One was rather extraordinary, as it was a fine boy, weighing over sixteen pounds. Charlie Bronson was a good man and a good husband and her favorite of all her mates. He was a good provider and lived her with her for several years and until he was accidentally killed by the work train on the Urania Lumber Company tram road, where he was working as death, the husbands came fast, but did not linger long. Mr. Burgess, the Village Blacksmith was number four. A year or two after their marriage he was stricken with paralysis and was confined to his home. After some months he expressed the desire to go to Canada to see his relatives and Mrs. Burgess bought him a one way ticket to his old home and after a few months secured a divorce. Mr. Pomp Chevallier of Catahoula Parish was drawn for number five but he lasted only a very few weeks when he took "French Leave" and never came back. But this did not worry Mrs. Chevallier. When they want to leave she speeds them on and divorce was shortly secured and along came number six in __________ Mr. Gardner. He was Aunt Caroline's sixth husband for two or three years but finally considering him unwanted she divorced him. After remaining a widow for a week or so, Mr. White came along and lay siege to her ________ and after a rapid courtship they were married a day or so afterward. White did not last long. He was not worthy of her and she ________ told him to hit the road, which he did with rapidity if not with alarm. Another divorce was quickly procured and in a short space of time number eight appeared in the person of Mr. Luigi, a native of Seria, _________, or some one of those Eastern Countries. He came with a little one horse shoe and camped here one night. He was a fast worker and they were married very shortly. It lasted two or three years, but he was careless so he went the way of the others. Another divorce was procured a few weeks ago and for the eighth time Aunt Caroline stood before the Judge and had the marriage knot tied for the ninth time and is now Mrs. Hatfield. We wish her a long and happy life. Mrs. Hatfield was a great-great grandmother a the age of 58. (Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)