Quite a Name Changer

1895

There is a woman living in the Sinnamahoning valley, Pennsylvania, who was born an Orr, and by marriage she has in turn changed her name to Barnes, Calahan, Rix, Enos, Robinson, Elder and now Bailey.

Each of her six dead husbands had been a soldier in the late war, and she married the first one in 1863, when she was 17. It is hardly fair to say, either, that those husbands were exactly six, for not one of them had all of himself left when he succeeded to the title of husband to this admirer of the military. Three of the husbands had only one leg apiece, one had only seven fingers, besides being short a leg, another wooed and won the widow with one leg and one arm, and the sixth was minus an eye.

Her present husband is not a veteran of the war and has all his legs, arms, fingers and eyes. Mrs. Bailey is not yet 49 and is the mother of 12 children, two each by her soldier husbands. — New York Tribune.