Williamson-Mcnairy-Gibson County TN Archives Marriages.....Alston, Elizabeth N. - Walton, John B. 1847
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Library Of Congress May 10, 1848
"Truth is strange-stranger than fiction"

The Franklin (Tenn.) Review has been furnished with the particulars in relation
to a marriage, which took place in the county of Williamson, in that State in
the month of September last, which shows deception and hypocrisy of the worst
kind, and exhibits a baser fraud upon unsuspecting innocence  than any thing
that has lately come to our knowledge in real life. The Review says:

"A man, who called himself John B. WALTON came to this country, a stranger, some
time in 1847. He pretended to be deaf and dumb, and under such disguise courted
and married an amiable, estimable young lady, a 'deaf mute,' Miss Elizabeth N.
ALSTON-of highly respectable family connections, and succeeded in obtaining
about $400 of her estate from her guardian. He has since lived in this county
and in Nashville, working at the shoe and boot making business, and keeping up
as well as possible his assumed character of an honest man.

It appears that he first married in North Carolina, and afterwards removed to
McNairy county, Tenn. There he left his wife and went to Gibson county, Tenn.,
and married another, with whom he moved to Holly Springs, Mississippi. The
friends and relatives of his second wife finding that he had been previously
married, and a large family living in McNairy, immediately pursued him, but he
succeeded in making his escape from them. His last effort was in this county,
Williamson, Tenn., where he married and acted out his rascality as already
stated, robbing the unfortunate lady whom he married of peace, happiness, and
property, destroying her hopes, and blighting all her prospects by his heartless
villany.

Within some two or three weeks past the facts became known that he was neither
deaf nor dumb, and that he had a wife and many children in McNairy county. These
developments led to further inquiry, and he was in consequence arrested a few
days ago, on a warrant for bigamy, near Nolensville, 12 miles from this place,
but unfortunately made his escape. His real name is Edward P. GREEN-he speaks
with a low and coarse voice, and has a down looking countenance. His first wife
was a KERNODEL, he married her in Guilford county, North Carolina. His second
was a widow WORD, a daughter of Mr. FARRIS, of Gibson county, Tenn., near 
Trenton."


Additional Comments:
Partial Abstract of the North Carolina Standard, Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday morning, 
May 10, 1848

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