Gates County NcArchives Marriages.....Biddle, William - Beale, Lucy 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Ardrey n/a December 15, 2008, 8:36 am Charlotte Observer 19 May 1901 Eloped in Her Night Gown - Boys Behind Loved Fun Elwood Va., Dispatch, 16th - Tuesday 15 year old Lucy Beale eluded a watchman stationed by her father, escaped through a window in stocking feet and joined her lover, William Biddle, with whom she eloped to Gatesville, NC. After jumping from a window she went to James Lewis' home, a mile away, where Harvey Biddle, the bridegroom's brother, had taken her clothes. She dressed while driving to Gatesville, twenty miles away; practical jokers fired guns to make the elopers believe the father was in pursuit. A magistrate was gotten out of bed and performed the ceremony at 2:30 am. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/gates/vitals/marriages/biddle1344mr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb