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Tyler County Marriages - 1888
Through the
State.
Eloped with a Married Man.
A man of about
forty winters, named Ben Swiger, of Shirley, Tyler
county, eloped with Miss Sophronia Ash, daughter of
Adam Ash, a farmer living four miles from West
Union, last Monday, according to the Parkersburg Sentinel, taking
the 4 o'clock train for that city. The young lady is of respectable
family, handsome in appearance, and a rose-bud of seventeen summers.
Swiger is a married man, leaving a devoted wife and two loving
children behind. He decoyed the young lady to Parkersburg with the
understanding that she was to live with Dr. Bland
as a domestic, and her parents knew nothing of the elopement until
Friday, when they call to see their daughter and found she had not
been employed as above indicated. The father and brothers swear
vengeance when they see Swiger. The Wheeling
Sunday Register, December 18, 1888.
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