St. Louis County MO Archives News.....BOUGHT A BRIDE, AN OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN CASH FOR A WIFE November 14, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise November 14, 1889
     JESSE FOVELL, seventy-nine years old, of Calhoun County, Ill., and MAMIE 
ISDELL, twenty-three years old, of St. Louis, Mo., were married a few days ago. 
It is said the old gentleman is worth about half a million dollars, and lives 
on a farm in Calhoun County, Ill. His nephew, ISAAC FOVEL, lives in St. Louis, 
and Miss Isdell, beautiful and accomplished, but poor, has been a sort of 
companion and nursery governess in Isaac’s family. The uncle recently visited 
his nephew, and became greatly smitten with the young girl’s charms. He paid 
court to her, and the affair, according to the story, culminated in a cash 
offer of $100,000, which was accepted.


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The Georgia Enterprise was published in Newton County, Georgia, up to 1905.

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