Scotland County NcArchives Marriages.....McRae, D. A. - Clark, Mary 1902
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Charlotte Observer
1 Mar 1902

A Rosy Story - The Marriage in Laurinburg of an Eloped Couple

Laurinburg Exchange, 26th ult. - When a couple elopes to get married it is 
usually on account of refractory parents, but a widower and a widow who were 
married here yesterday eloped on account of their children. The parties were 
Mr. D.A McRae, a prominent farmer of Richmond County, and Mrs. Mary E. Clark, 
of Moore County.

They had been lovers when they were children in school together, but through 
some pitiless fortune they had been separated. When the groom's wife died and 
the bride's husband, the undying love was again kindled, which drew the 
survivors together. The courtship went on for some time "unbeknowins" to the 
children, of whom Mr. McRae possesses seven and Mrs. Clark three; but when 
they came to terms and decided to marry at home the children on both sides of 
the house raised such a rucus that it was wisely decided to postpone the 
ceremony.

Mrs. Clark went to Raeford on a visit and her lover wrote her to meet him in 
Laurinburg. They came together at the Glenn Hotel yesterday and, in the 
presence of Messrs. J.C. Morgan, J.H. Morgan and John Chisholm, they were 
married by Dr. J.M. Rose.

Maybe they will some time find themselves in as awkward a situation as the 
persons in that old story, where a widower with six children married a widow 
with the same number, and their marriage was blessed with six more. One day 
the lady came rushing in from the back yard, crying "Husband, run here! Your 
children and my children are about to kill our children!"


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